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NAKIVO hardens ransomware defences, takes SharePoint under its backup wing

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Chris Mellor
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NAKIVO has extended its backup software to: support SharePoint Online; add ransomware protection facilities; and give managed server providers (MSPs) a way to manage tenant resources.

NAKIVO’s new Backup & Replication 10.2 backs up SharePoint Online sites and sub-sites, recovers document libraries and lists to the original or a different location. Search functionality enables users to locate items for compliance and e-discovery purposes. Microsoft Azure does not backup SharePoint users’ data; that’s the responsibility of the users.

Nakivo graphic

AWS S3 ObjectLock support lets users set up retention periods for immutable S3 buckets with no subsequent change in the retention period allowed. Ransomware can’t touch the data in these buckets.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 10.2 allows MSPs to provide a more reliable service, by organising and schedule infrastructure resources to prevent noisy neighbours. The MSPs can allocate data protection resources such as hosts, clusters, VMs, Backup Repositories and Transporters, to tenants.

NAKIVO provides perpetual license and subscription license options in six configurations, ranging from Basic to Enterprise Plus. The company says it is typically 50 per cent cheaper than competitors. A Microsoft 365 subscription price is $10/user/year. Per-workload subscription pricing is also available. A perpetual license price for a virtual server is $99/socket sat the Basic level and $899/socket at the Enterprise Plus level.

A bit more about NAKIVO

NAKIVO says it has more than 5,000 resellers 16,000 customers, which include Coca-Cola, DHL, Honda, Radisson, SpaceX, and the US Army and Navy. The US-headquartered company competes against mainstream backup suppliers such as Commvault Dell EMC and Veritas. It is also up against blitzscaling competitors such as Clumio, Cohesity, Rubrik and Veeam. So, to date it has been overshadowed on the marketing front.

NAKIVO founders have self-funded the company with the proceeds of a previous US-based and sold-startup.  Sergei Serdyuk, VP product management, told us: “For the first five years we spent zero on marketing. We lived on what we made.”

Its actual US footprint is slim, comprising the CEO and a few other staff. The company. conducts the bulk R&D and engineering in the Ukraine with help from a Vietnamese office. Serdyuk said it would be cost-prohibitive to have engineering located in the USA.

Expect to hear more about NAKIVO. It has now grown large enough to set aside some money for marketing.

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Samsung gets flashier- and a bit faster -with the mainstream 870 EVO SSD

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Chris Mellor
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Samsung has updated the 860 EVO SATA SSD to the 870 EVO version, changing the flash from 64-layer to 128-layer V-NAND, and making it slightly faster.

Samsung 870 EVO.

KyuYoung Lee, VP of Samsung’s memory brand biz, is on message with this statement: “Representing the culmination of our SATA SSD line, the new 870 EVO delivers a compelling mix of performance, reliability and compatibility for casual laptop and desktop PC users as well as Network Attached Storage (NAS) users.”

The performance overview numbers for the 870 and 860 are below.

They are pretty similar but the 870 EVO improves random read speed, delivering 38 per cent improvement in random read speed over the previous 860 model at a queue depth of 1.

The 870 EVO is sold in 2.5-inch format only, unlike the 860 which was also available as an M.2 format drive..

The 870 has the same endurance as its predecessor, with up to 2,400 TB written (TBW) for the duration of the five-year warranty. The endurance rating is 150TBW for the 250GB drive, and doubles as the capacity increases to 500GB and on through 1TB and 2TB to 4TB.

Both EVO models use a 6Gbit/s SATA interface, AES-256 bit encryption and an Arm-based Samsung controller.

Like the 860, the 870 EVO has a variably sized SLC write cache, called Intelligent TurboWrite technology, to increase its speed.

We’re told the 870 EVO supports TRIM and S.M.A.R.T. functionality and comes with Samsung’s Magician software for drive management. It also comes with drive cloning software.

Lastly, this product is somewhat similar to the existing 870 QVO SSD, but the latter drive uses quad-level flash and goes up to 8TB in capacity.

Manufacturer’s suggested pricing starts at $39.99 for the 250GB model, and continues with $69.99 for 500GB, $129.99 for 1TB, $249.99 for 2TB and $479.99 for 4TB.

HDDs remain big cash-generating machine for Seagate

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Chris Mellor
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Seagate has delivered another $2.5bn-plus revenue quarter as it spits in the eye of nearline disk cannibalisation by flash.

Top line numbers for the second fiscal 2021 quarter ended January 1 were $2.62bn in revenues, a smidge down in the year-ago $2.69bn, and net income of $280m, a bigger smidge down from last year’s $318m. The revenue number beats Seagate’s guidance from last quarter. Seagate’s mid-point revenue guidance for next quarter is $2.65bn, a bit less than last year’s $2.72bn.

In Q4, bulk capacity nearline disk drives accounted for 58 per cent of revenues; and legacy desktop and notebook/fast enterprise 2.5-inch drives contributed 38 per cent of revenues. Enterprise systems and SSDs made up the balance.

There were record exabyte capacity shipped numbers, at 97.2EB – well up on the year-ago’s 71.3EB. Seagate reckons nearline drive capacity shipped will grow 35-40 per cent Y/Y.

Dave Mosley.

“Seagate delivered strong, double-digit revenue, earnings and free cash flow growth in the December quarter supported by broad-based improvement across nearly every served market and geography, and we had solid customer demand for our mass capacity products,” CEO Dave Mosley said.

“We are well positioned to benefit from the tremendous opportunities we foresee ahead and remain focused on enhancing value for our customers, employees and shareholders.”

That tremendous opportunity is the gigantic increase in data storage needs both on-premises and, more importantly, in the hyperscaler and public cloud markets.

Seagate is moving cautiously from ongoing perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR) to next-generation heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) but it is in no rush. The first HAMR drives, with 20TB capacity, shipped without fanfare in November. The company is ramping up 18TB drive production ready to take over from existing 16TB drives as the market sweet spot transitions. 

It is also developing the Lyve Storage Platform line of storage arrays and systems to extend its market but so far this is micro-potatoes, revenue-wise.

Dell EMC PowerProtect X400 makes quiet exit from the planet

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Chris Mellor
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Dell EMC launched the PowerProtect X400 appliance in May 2019, GA’d in July. And then what? Not an awful lot, judging from this November 2020 Evaluator Group report (paywall) on PowerProtect, which reveals “PowerProtect X400 was discontinued in Aug. 2020 in favour of emphasising the stand-alone options.”

This may be a record of sorts, going from GA (general availability to EOL (end of life) in just over 12 months.

We asked Dell EMC what happened to the X400 Appliance. A spokesperson told us: “In an effort to simplify our data protection appliance portfolio and meet the evolving needs of our customers, we made the decision in 2020 to focus our integrated data protection appliance efforts on the PowerProtect DP series.

“The software that powers the X400, PowerProtect Data Manager, remains available in our portfolio and writes to existing and new PowerProtect appliances. We now offer an integrated PowerProtect appliance with the new PowerProtect DP series and a target-based PowerProtect appliance with the PowerProtect DD series.”

Obit

The X400 Appliance was announced as Dell EMC’s PowerProtect reveal in May 2019. This was new data protection and management software that supported three hardware products; the IPDA DP Series products running Avamar software for SMB customers, and (later) the DD Series (Data Domain) backup targets. The X400 ran with the PowerProtect software and stored the backups.

PowerProtect HW in May 2019.

It was both a scale-up and scale-out system but had limited data reduction in that deduplication was restricted to just one X400 enclosure (or cube) in the scale-out design.

Dell EMC to use Druva for Backup-as-a-Service

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Chris Mellor
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Scoop! Dell EMC is in negotiations with Druva to offer the startup’s backup as a service and will announce the deal in weeks, according to industry sources.

The tie-up would give Dell a competitive tool to combat the new wave of as-a-service data management suppliers such as Clumio, Cohesity and HYCU. It would also give Druva a shortcut to Dell’s huge enterprise base.

Druva CMO Thomas Been declined to confirm discussions, pointing us instead to a deal between the two companies. “Our offering is available to Dell Technologies customers through their Extended Technologies Complete program, which provides customers with a portfolio of complimentary third-party offerings for Dell Technologies solutions.”

We had a good rummage in the Dell Tech catalog but were unable to find details of this arrangement. Maybe our search skills were at fault, so we asked Druva to point us in the right direction. We have yet to hear back.

We also asked Dell EMC and a spokesperson told us: “I looked into Druva and what I can tell you is that they’re a member of our Extended Technologies Complete program, which offers customers a portfolio of third-party offerings that can be used alongside our products.”

Let’s remind you that EMC once had its own in-cloud backup services firm – Spanning, which it acquired in 2014. EMC was in turn bough by Dell in 2016, which then sold Spanning Cloud Backup to Insight Venture Partners in 2017. Now it’s part of Kaseya.

Dell Capital is an investor in Druva.

IBM storage sales ride (slowly) in tandem with mainframe cycle

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Chris Mellor
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IBM executive Arvind Krishna. 5/30/19 Photo by John O’Boyle

Analysis: Storage sales from IBM’s Systems unit declined in its fourth calendar quarter as the z15 mainframe cycle continues to wind down. 

As The Register reports, IBM’s Q4 2020 revenues of $20.4bn were down six per cent Y/Y with its $1.3bn net income 65 per cent down Y/Y. Full year revenues of $73.6bn were down five per cent Y/Y and net income was $4.3bn, down 51 per cent. Yet the IBM money-making machine has delivered, with the company ending the quarter with $14.3bn cash in hand.

IBM annual revenues and net income to 2020 – 11 years of overall decline.

IBM’s revenues are languishing, and have been for seven years. Last year’s Red Hat acquisition has yet to boost revenues. So Q4’s Systems segment storage revenues – $390m – represents just 2 per cent of what IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna has to worry about. The systems segment as a whole represents 12 per cent of IBM’s revenues, so in this context the storage component is chump change, and its revenues wax and wane with the mainframe cycle.

Mainframe cycle blues

The z15 mainframe launched in September 2019 and we see IBM storage revenues rose in the fourth 2019 quarter, and the first and second 2020 quarters, only to fall back in the third and fourth quarters as the new mainframe boost to high-end storage array sales weakened.

Spot the z15 mainframe cycle boost to storage revenues in Q4 2019 and Q1 2020.

The previous z14 mainframe was launched in April 2018. If we assume a 30-month cycle between mainframe versions then the z16 can be expected around April 2022. Storage revenues in IBM’s Systems segment can be expected to languish until then, absent any other developments.

Outside IBM, a data storage business with $390m in quarterly revenues would be fairly important, but not massive – it’s about the quarter of the size of NetApp.

IBM’s quarterly financial reporting structure does not help in trying to get a picture of IBM’s storage business. There are four big business units or segments with storage products spread across two of them; 

  • Global Business Services
  • Cloud and Cognitive Software
  • Systems
  • Global Technology Services

Cloud and Cognitive Software include Cloud and Data Platforms, Red Hat and Cognitive Applications.

Storage products like Spectrum Scale, Cloud Object Storage and the Red Hat storage software products tuck into the Cloud And Cognitive Software segment.  IBM does not split out storage product revenue in this segment

In the Systems segment, CFO Jim Kavanaugh’s statement included this: “Revenue was down 19 per cent, driven by product cycle dynamics,… We saw the product cycle dynamics play out in IBM Z, Power and Storage. Power revenue was down at a level consistent with last quarter, and Storage revenue was also down, driven by high-end storage tied to the IBM Z cycle.”

But he said Red Hat “delivered double-digit growth in both Infrastructure and App Development and emerging technologies.”

We can say with a degree of confidence that the Systems business’ storage revenues are in a long term decline and that two quarters of positive z15 mainframe cycle influence has been lost. But the storage revenues in the Cloud and Cognitive Software segment are unknown. We suspect that the Rd Hat acquisition has had a positive impact and think that IBM’s storage cloud (IBM COS) revenues may also be growing.

Therefore the overall Big Blue storage picture may be more upbeat than the Systems storage results indicate.

Hyperconverged diverges into two paths – Enterprise and Edge, says GigaOm

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Chris Mellor
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Radar Antenna
Radar Antenna

According to GigaOm, there are two distinct hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) markets, namely Enterprise and Edge. Accordingly, the analyst firm has compiled two separate “radar screens”, its version of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

VMware, Nutanix and Dell EMC dominate Enterprise hyperconverged systems by revenues. But for the purposes of the GigaOm radar screen, report author Enrico Signoretti sets market share aside and concentrates on technology.

He summarises the enterprise HCI market thus: “Hyperconvergence for the enterprise market is both mature and consolidated. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) holds the lion’s share of the market in terms of deployments, and also enjoys technology leadership. At the same time, alternative solution stacks are gaining popularity by offering compelling value and innovative approaches.”

Signoretti thinks “interest has shifted from core virtualization features to the platform ecosystem and integration of core, cloud, and edge components. Other aspects of hyperconvergence infrastructure (HCI) that are quickly gaining traction include automation and orchestration, as well as integration with Kubernetes. The final goal is to build hybrid cloud infrastructures that can provide a consistent user experience across different environments while enabling applications and data mobility.”

This can be achieved both by classic HCI and disaggregated HCI, with separate compute and storage.

Here is the enterprise HCI Radar screen.

Enterprise HCI radar screen. Note: The Radar screen methodology is explained here.

We can see outperformers VMware and Nutanix lead, with Cisco, Dell and HPE in the same leaders’ ring. NetApp, Hitachi Vantara and outperformer Microsoft are entering the leaders ring, leaving DataCore alone in the Challengers’ ring.

Close to the edge

Signoretti says there is a lot overlap between Enterprise and SME/Edge HCI systems. However, the SME/Edge HCI systems have a smaller minimum cluster size and higher efficiency in small configuration. They also have software tools to manage numerous sites, which may number in the thousands, as hands-on management is impractical

Here is the GigaOM radar screen for small and medium enterprise and Edge.

SME/Edge radar screen

The leaders are StorMagic, then VMware, with HPE and Nutanix following. Then we see Dell, Starwind, outperformers Scale Computing and Microsoft, with outperformer Cisco entering the leaders’ ring from the Challengers’ ring while Data Core, Hitachi Vantara and Syneto are making progress in that ring. NetApp, which has recently announced smaller configurations, is entering the Challengers’ ring from the new entrants ring.

Signoretti reckons “market leaders in the enterprise HCI segment can’t scale down their edge solutions too much if they want to maintain full compatibility with their data centre solutions.” The smaller players can capitalise on this by tailoring their systems for efficiency and cost.

Pivot3 declined to participate in Signoretti’s research.

VAST and Nvidia show how to push data to GPUs fast – over NFS

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Chris Mellor
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VAST Data and Nvidia today published a reference architecture for jointly configured systems built to handle heavy duty workloads such as conversational AI models, petabyte-scale data analytics and 3D volumetric modelling.

The validated reference set-up shows VAST’s all-QLC-flash array can pump data over plain old vanilla NFS at more than 140GB/sec to Nvidia’s DGX A100 GPU servers.”There’s no need for parallel file system complexity,” Jeff Denworth, VAST Data CMO told us. All-flash HPC parallel file systems are prohibitively expensive, he argues.

Jeff Denworth.

“We’ve worked with Nvidia on this new reference architecture, built on our LightSpeed platform, to provide customers a flexible, turnkey, petabyte-scale AI infrastructure solution and to remove the variables that have introduced compromise into storage environments for decades,” Denworth said.

Tony Paikeday, senior director of AI Systems at Nvidia, said: “AI workloads require specialised infrastructure, which is why we’ve worked with VAST Data, a new member of the Nvidia DGX POD ecosystem, to combine their storage expertise with our deep background in optimising platforms for AI excellence.”

Reference checking

For the reference architecture setup, VAST Data uses LightSpeed technology, NFS over RDMA, NFS multi-path across a converged InfiniBand fabric, to hit 140GB/sec-plus data delivery to a DGX A100. This is about 50 per cent fast than delivery to Nvidia’s prior DGX-2’s Tesla V100 GPUs.

The DGX A100 has eight Tesla A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These are 20x faster than the Teslas V100s.

VAST Data – Nvidia DGX A100 ref architecture diagram. The file servers are commodity X86 servers. Four A100s were used to reach 140GB/sec

For the test results quoted in the reference architectures, scaling was linear from one to four A100 systems. VAST is working on scaling further to eight A100s.

Are Weka and DDN faster?

The 140GB/sec speed is fast but not a record-breaker. A Nvidia presentation in November 2020 shows a WekaIO/Nvidia DGX-A100 system delivered 152GiB/sec (163.2GB/sec) to a single DGX-A100 across eight InfiniBand HDR links with 12 HPE ProLiant DL325 servers.

The same deck shows a DDN A1400X all-NVMe SSD system, running the Lustre parallel file system, delivering 162GiB/sec (173.9GB/sec) read to a DGX A100. The DDN slide’s text included this comment about its 162GiB/sec throughput; “That’s nearly 1.6X more throughput than with traditional CPU IO path and 60X more than NFS.”

Also this Weka/DDN comparison with VAST is not an apples-for-apples one as both use NVidia’s GPUDirect CPU IO path sidestep scheme. The VAST-Nvidia reference architecture does not. But Nvidia and VAST have actually demonstrated 162GiB/sec (173.9GB/sec) when using GPUDirect to link VAST’s systems to the DGX A100; the same as DDN.

I guess we can expect an updated reference scheme in due course,

VAST-Nvidia reference architecture systems will be sold through VAST’s channel partners – Cambridge Computer, Trace3 and Mark III in the USA, Xenon in Australia, and Uclick in South Korea. No news yet on European coverage.

Wasabi bags $27.5m to build out its S3 alternative to AWS

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Chris Mellor
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David Friend, Wasabi
David Friend, Wasabi

Public cloud provider Wasabi has secured $27.5m in debt finance taking total funds raised to around $140m. The startup will spend the money on infrastructure, including additional data centres in new geographies.

Wasabi offers S3-compatible public cloud object storage in a single tier that’s 20 per cent of AWS S3’s cost and with faster data access. The company claims lightning speed but provides no numbers. There are no egress or API charges, which should help any cost comparisons with AWS no end.

David Friend.

David Friend, CEO and co-founder, said the cash infusion “marks Wasabi’s first major institutional debt round, which is an important milestone for our company and mission as we continue to roll out more data centres … This financing provides our company with stable, long-term support to drive our rapid growth.”

The new cash follows follows an April 2020 $30m equity round. Wasabi says revenue grew more than 3x from 2019 to 2020 and storage under management has expanded 150 per cent. Revenues grew 5x from 2018 to 2019.

Customer growth is notable:

  • Sep 2018 – 3,000+
  • Feb 2020 – 10,000
  • May 2020 – near 15,000
  • Jan 2021 – 21,000+

The acquisition rate since May 2020 is around the 700+/month mark. These are being recruited through more than 4,000 channel partners. 

These growth stats have no doubt helped with the funding raise. It’s interesting that Wasabi can provide S3-class storage at a substantially lower cost than Amazon. We trust that this reflects a real lower cost base and not just marketing-led price levels to build custom.

Nidec takes Seagate out for a patent spin

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Chris Mellor
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Nidec, the dominant maker of spindle motors for hard disk drives, is suing its Seagate, its biggest customer, in a patent spat

The Japanese manufacturer alleges in a suit filed in Delaware on Jan 18 that Seagate’s 2TB BarraCuda ST200LM15 and 16TB IronWolf Pro ST16000NE00 HDD infringe its US patents. The drives use motors supplied by Minebea, which has a cross-licensing agreement with Nidec.

Nidec is seeking judgment to stop Seagate using its IP unlawfully, selling the named products, damages, pre- and post-judgment interest, and an award for costs and fees.

The company declared in a statement: “Nidec has expanded its HDD-business all over the world, and views its intellectual property as a significantly valuable corporate asset. Nidec will continue to strictly and properly pursue the protection of its intellectual property rights whenever infringement is identified.”

Hub and spindle

Disk drives platters are fastened to a central hub and spindle which contains a motor turning the spindle. The platters revolve at speeds between 5,400 and 10,000rpm and the thinner the motor the more platters can fit inside an enclosure.

Nidec supplies motors to the world’s three HDD suppliers – Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba. The company claims 85 per cent market share, with competitor Minebea Mitsumi in second place.

Exploded view of hard disk drive showing spindle motor

A bit more about Nidec

In its annual report for the year ending March 31, 2020, Nidec stated: “The HDD motor business is an important business that supports our revenue base, and accounts for a significant proportion of our revenue.”

: “Net sales of Nidec Corporation decreased ¥32,649 million to ¥183,036 million for the year ended March 31, 2020 compared to the year ended March 31, 2019. This decrease was due to a decrease in sales of hard disk drives spindle motors and other small precision motors.”

In particular it said; “Net sales of spindle motors for HDDs for this fiscal year decreased 12.2 per cent to ¥157,240 million compared to the previous fiscal year. The number of units sold of spindle motors for HDDs decreased approximately 18.7 per cent compared to the previous fiscal year.”

Gartner Peers love their backup suppliers (some of them)

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Chris Mellor
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Gartner Peer Insights’s annual “Voice of The Customer” is out now for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions suppliers. Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam, Veritas and Zerto come out of it very well.

A second group of vendors gets generally as high ratings but from a smaller number of customers. They are Actifio (now owned by Google), Commvault, Druva and NAKIVO. Dell and Acronis get relatively lower ratings.

Gartner includes Vendors with a minimum of $50m revenues and 10 or more Peer Insight reviews in the 12-months to Oct end 2020 in this report, which takes the measure of 1,319 reviews and rating in total.

Vendors are categorised into four quadrants based on Review Coverage (x-axis) and Overall Market Rating (y-axis and out of 5). A maximum of seven vendors, listed alphabetically, can feature in the top right “Customers’ Choice” box

A second graphic shows the overall ratings for all these vendors;

This list is ordered by the number of reviews, hence Dell, with 126 reviews, is fourth from the top, but its rating is a relatively lowly 4.6.

Cohesity and Rubrik, with 226 and 199 reviews respectively, have equal overall ratings of 4.9, as does Actifio, but the latter gained 29 reviews, so placing it lower in Gartner’s ranking.

Veritas, Zerto, NAKIVO and Chinese supplier AISHU each obtained a next-highest 4.8 rating.

At 4.7 we see Veeam and Commvault. Acronis gets the lowest rating amongst these vendors, achieving 4.4.

The vendor rankings are sliced and diced to show customer choice distinction vendors by customer type, market sector and geography. For example; global enterprises, large ones, mid-size, public sector, finance, healthcare, etc.

Gartner also provides access to the individual reviews and ratings for suppliers such as AISHU and another for Cohesity, providing the most helpful and the most critical reviews in each case.

Lynn Lucas, Cohesity’s CMO, issued a statement hot off the blocks: “We are honoured to be the only company recognised in 10 out of 11 category distinctions and we believe this speaks to the unique value, differentiation, and innovation we provide to customers, across industries, segments and geographic regions.”

Hitachi Vantara dives into the Kubernetes sea

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Chris Mellor
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Hitachi Vantara has launched Hitachi Kubernetes Service (HKS), covering the three main public clouds and on-premises data centres.

The company bought the assets of Containership, a tiny collapsed startup, in March 2020. This gave it the technology to supply storage to Kubernetes-orchestrated containers. HKS builds on this foundation to supply K8s cluster management of application and data containers in a single facility.

Bobby Soni.

Bobby Soni, president, Digital Infrastructure, at Hitachi V, said in a statement: “We are helping simplify and solve the multi-cloud Kubernetes challenge for our customers with the introduction of Hitachi Kubernetes Service. With this enterprise-grade service, our customers now have the freedom of a true agnostic platform, the flexibility of an extensible self-service catalogue, accompanied with world-class training and Hitachi global support to help their development teams drive business results.”

Scott Sinclair, a senior analyst at the  Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), chipped in: “From skills shortages to code abandonment, consistent processes and even training and support, there are many challenges in deploying and managing enterprise-grade Kubernetes in one or more clouds.”

The inference we are meant to draw is that HKS will help enterprise customers deal with these problems.

HKS functionality

Hitachi V has built an open CSI (Kubernetes Container Storage Interface) plugin in order to enable Hitachi Vantara Storage to provide persistent storage for Kubernetes stateful containers.

HKS provides a multi-cloud dashboard with APIs to automate workflows. Hitachi Vantara provides data protection functions through open source technologies integrated with HKS and – soon – through a strategic, as yet un-named partner.

Migration services to Kubernetes containers are available via open source tools integrated with HKS. Additional HKS modules are planned that will specifically support stateless and stateful backup, migration and recovery to provide application, workload and data portability, across hybrid-cloud platforms.

Security is delivered through edge protection of communications with Kubernetes clusters using reverse proxy tunnelling of all core communications with the clusters. No ports are needed to be open to establish, manage and support Kubernetes cluster management. 

Hitachi V joins Dell with its Project Karavi,  HPE (Ezmeral), Pure Storage, NetApp and other suppliers in providing a Kubernetes management service.

Hitachi Kubernetes Service is available today on AWS, and Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure support will come online in the next few months. HKS includes an application catalogue and training options.

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