Your occasional storage digest with Storj and Tesla, Komprise, OVH Cloud and more
A cloudy theme this week, with Tesla camera footage stored in a cloud and cloud service provider OVH offering a Kubernetes service. We also have Komprise enabling...
Your occasional storage digest with DNA storage, a new IDC Tracker and more
New things are the theme of this week’s roundup, with DNA storage prospects explained in a white paper, and IDC setting up a software-defined infrastructure tracking report....
Quantum gives ActiveScale a sizable upgrade
Quantum has taken the ActiveScale object storage business it bought from Western Digital and given it a significant upgrade with new hardware and software.
NetApp goes all-in on hybrid cloud
NetApp appears to making hybrid cloud a core focus, having recently made a slew of product announcements including core storage products, Flexpod converged infrastructure,...
I object: Cloudian hooks up Hyperstore to AWS Outposts
Cloudian’s HyperStore system been validated by Amazon to run with its on-premises AWS Outposts systems, providing fast and local object storage.
Outposts is Amazon's...
Startup emerges from stealth, reveals all-singing, all-dancing ‘transcendent’ storage
A startup called 22dot6 has exited stealth mode, and revealed some ambitious details on Valence, which the biz has dubbed a Transcendent Abstracted Storage System (TASS). The...
Cloud file streaming startup LucidLink grabs $12m in latest fund raising
LucidLink, whose FileSpaces software presents public cloud object storage as a local filer, has impressed venture capitalists enough to get a $12m A-round of funding.
Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX
Dell today unveiled its APEX Data Storage Services at its virtual Dell Technologies World event, claiming to offer a consistent service across edge locations, private and public...
Objectively good for lockdown? GigaOm updates object storage survey, puts out new high-performance object...
Analyst house GigaOm has updated its Radar screen survey of the object storage vendors with many suppliers grouped as they chase use cases where object storage is...
VAST Data valued at $3.7bn after $83m cash round
VAST Data has had a fourth funding round, raising $83m to hit a valuation of $3.7bn, a year after raising $100m at a $1.2bn valuation. It...
Your occasional storage digest with StorONE, Qumulo, WekaIO and Egnyte
Today’s digest features a lot of storage suppliers adding public cloud presence and support to their offerings, such as Actian, DataStax, Qumulo, Rubrik, ScaleOut Software, StorONE, and...
Contain yourselves: Scality object storage gets cloud-native Artesca cousin
Scality has popped the lid on ARTESCA, its new cloud-native object storage, co-designed with HPE, that is available alongside its existing RING object storage product.
Your occasional storage digest with Veritas, Seagate, and Tintri
This week's storage digest
Filebase raises $2m to raise decentralised storage game
Filebase has gained $2m seed funding for its geo-replicated object storage cloud that has edge caching and is up to 90 per cent lower cost than equivalent...
Why croit thinks Ceph is ‘unbeatable general storage solution’ – and why it will...
Ceph software is a singular data storage technology, as it is open source and offers block, file and object access to data. But it has a reputation...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a...
Amazon Re:Freeze makes it easier to transfer Glacier vault archives
Amazon has announced the Glacier Re:Freeze serverless service to transfer an entire Glacier data vault to another S3 class such as Glacier Deep Archive.
Storage product comparisons on the rack
Analysis. Comparing the performance of storage products is bedevilled by the lack of benchmark testing for the three main storage storage access methods; blocks, files and objects....