Cloudian balances object storage access loads
Object storage supplier Cloudian has launched a load-balancing product called HyperBalance.
Update; Cloudian HW/SW to SW-only OEM Loadbalancer.org deal change date added. 19 Aug...
Gartner releases 2022 storage hype cycle
Gartner’s latest storage and data protection hype cycle is an amazingly long report and, this being Gartner, the basic idea is treated to exhaustive analysis by a...
Nutanix to layoff 270 employees
A Nutanix 8-K SEC filing reveals it’s planning to chop 270 employees, 4 percent of its workforce.
This follows “a review of its business...
Cohesity: The Poonen and Aron double act – part 2
The first part of our interview with Mohit Aron and Sanjay Poonen, Cohesity's new CEO, focussed on Aron. Now we turn to Poonen.
Cohesity: The Poonen and Aron double act – part 1
Eight months after filing for its IPO, data protection and management company Cohesity has hired its first external CEO: Sanjay Poonen, with founding CEO Mohit Aron transitioning...
MinIO slams Nutanix use of open source code: round 2
MinIO has accused Nutanix of actively misleading industry and financial analysts by telling them it was no longer using MinIO code in its Objects product when in...
Nutanix apologizes to MinIO for Apache 2 licence infraction
Hyperconverged system platform vendor Nutanix has said sorry to MinIO for not fulfilling the terms of the Apache v2 license with its use of MinIO open source...
Pure gets into mainframe backups with Model9
Pure Storage's FlashBlade has gained the ability to store mainframe backups – and make the data available for use in AI/ML and analytics applications – thanks to...
StorONE drops capacity-based pricing and boosts software efficiency
StorONE has introduced a per-drive pricing model and updated its Storage Engine software to deliver more IOPS from fewer drives, automatically tier from SSDs to disk drives...
Storage news ticker – July 21
There is a report published by the Active Archive Alliance: "The Active Archiving Ecosystem: Building a Flexible Archival Repository Your Way," which...
After swimming up the Amazon, Cloudian’s object storage now stacks up with Azure
Cloudian's cloud-native HyperStore object storage has been validated to work with Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI as a local storage component.
In June, Cloudian announced...
MinIO accuses Nutanix of violating open-source license
Object storage software vendor MinIO's CFO Garima Kapoor claims Nutanix is breaking the terms of its open-source license.
Update: Nutanix provides expanded statement responding...
Zettabyte era brings archiving front and center
Veteran storage analyst Fred Moore told a Fujifilm event audience that we're entering a zettabyte era of data storage and archival storage will be the dominant technology...
The emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion
Dominant private/public cloud abstraction layers could exclude independent vendors from suppliers' customer bases.
Dell and HPE are erecting public cloud-like abstraction layers over their...
Storage news ticker – July 1
HPC and enterprise storage supplier DDN has received its third consecutive “AI Hardware Innovation Award” in the annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a...
Veritas Backup Exec sends data to Backblaze cloud
Veritas is offering Backblaze B2 cloud storage as a target store for its Backup Exec software service.
B2 is accessed through the S3 protocol...
Storage news ticker – June 29
Arcserve’s annual independent global research study on experiences and attitudes of IT decision-makers (ITDMs) around data protection and recovery show that ransomware attacks continue to impact organizations...
Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy
Cloud file data services supplier Nasuni has made its second acquisition in two months, buying UK-based Storage Made Easy (SME) for an undisclosed amount