Quantum tape library: Partially eject, eject, eject to block ransomware
Quantum has come up with an ingenious low-tech remedy for ransomware getting into its Scalar tape libraries: partially ejecting the tape magazines so the robot can’t move tape cartridges...
Storage news ticker – October 29
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Molly Presley – who left the storage industry in January this year when she resigned as Qumulo’s Global Product Marketing Head to become VP Marketing at Pantheon (SaaS website...
Quantum’s exabyte-munching scale-out modular tape library
Oh, it turns out Quantum’s success in selling tape libraries to three of the top hyperscalers is due to specially developed scale-out and modular tape libraries and object software.
In...
Quantum writes old and cold objects to tape for archiving
Quantum is introducing an object-storage-on-tape tier to its ActiveScale object storage system, providing an on-premises Amazon S3 Glacier-like managed service offering.
The idea is to have a single namespace covering...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage,...
Your occasional storage digest with Rewind, Satori, a Snowflake quadfecta, benchmark bifecta and more
There’s a mini-blizzard of Snowflake news — a quadfecta in fact — plus two startups raising cash, Rewind for SaaS application service backup, and Satori for its secure real-time...
Your occasional storage buffet, with Commvault, NetApp, Lenovo and SingleStore plus accompanying tidbits
Commvault is offering anti-ransomware services to its customers. NetApp wants a billion dollars a year in recurring revenue from the public cloud. Lenovo wants to offer all its products...
Tape media sales dropped eight per cent in 2020
Tape media sales dropped last year — but the hyperscalers are buying more tape libraries this year, which should lead to a tape media sales rise as night follows...
Coldago survey: users love cloud, cloud-native and flash arrays; secondary storage surprises
An end-user survey by research firm Coldago finds users highly positive about the public cloud, cloud-native development, and all-flash arrays, with some surprising vendor rankings concerning Infinidat, VAST Data...
Model9 massacres Stone Age mainframe VTL
Sometimes you get reminded how decidedly old tech some tech is, and Model9’s ability to move data destined for long-term storage at 550MB/sec versus a mainframe Virtual Tape Library...
Your occasional storage digest with AWS HealthLake, Delphix, Infrascale, XenData and much more
This week we have AWS doing a neat health sector vertical market data lake offering with partners, Delphix bragging about its growth and diversity hiring credentials, and Infrascale offering...
Go faster, go smarter — StrongLink data manager gets automation and performance upgrade
StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS) has upgraded its StrongLink software to add more performance and automation to this multi-vendor, multi-storage platform that abstracts silos into a single metadata-driven namespace.
StrongLink is...