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• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  NetApp Insight 2021 conference news and coverage

  NetApp will once again go virtual for its annual Insight conference. When the event kicks off, get the latest NetApp news in this updating 2021 conference guide.

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Next Pathway execs offer cloud migration tips, savings

  Saving money in the cloud is possible, according to Next Pathway execs, but it requires rigorous planning and foresight before making a move.

• September 16, 2021 16 Sep'21

  Google Cloud pushes Filestore for enterprise, adds new features

  Google Cloud adds a new enterprise tier for Filestore, its public cloud file storage service, with new features including Kubernetes backup and custom dual-region selection.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Nasuni expands caching speed, availability for premium users

  Faster file caching and synchronization, as well as more frequent versioning, is now available through a new feature called Global File Acceleration for premium Nasuni subscribers.

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Hybrid cloud requires more than data management vendor fixes

  Massive data storage needs for enterprises likely include hybrid cloud, but experts warn against expecting the cloud to fully reduce costs.

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• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  Amazon offers NetApp OnTap for managed AWS file storage

  Amazon rolled out new AWS features and improvements at its Storage Day 2021, including a file storage service with NetApp's OnTap, the first managed service for AWS files.

• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  Look for PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0 to boost storage performance

  Enterprises that need high-performance storage for AI and ML workloads can keep an eye out for new products based on the latest PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 specifications.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Western Digital OptiNAND stretches HDD capacity, performance

  Western Digital unveiled a new storage drive architecture for hard drives that improves capacity, performance and reliability via an embedded flash drive to store metadata.

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  Infinidat and Virtana bring VirtualWisdom to InfiniBox

  Virtana's VirtualWisdom is now available for Infinidat's InfiniBox arrays. The software can expand to handle hybrid cloud workflows.

• August 23, 2021 23 Aug'21

  Rising NAND flash prices should start to fall in 2022

  Enterprise customers should see prices for NAND flash and enterprise SSDs start to fall in 2022, as flash and component shortages subside, market analysts predict.

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  Government heads to cloud for excess archival storage needs

  Boone County in Indiana found space and savings in public cloud, but experts say IT pros should follow smart policies and government regulations when managing vital data.

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  Experts: Ransomware protection needs smart storage strategy

  Vendor products can offer unique ransomware protections, but comprehensive strategies across storage clouds and formats still form core of IT protection.

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  Seagate promises predictable storage pricing with Lyve Cloud

  Seagate Technology's Lyve Cloud adds to the lineup of enterprise cloud storage offerings that give IT pros a way to retain more of the data being generated each year.

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  Data storage trends include increases in cloud, NAND flash

  "The cloud is here to stay," said analyst Scott Sinclair. So are containers. NAND flash is another popular storage trend highlighted in a recent report.

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Nutanix, Red Hat partner to ease container app deployment

  A Nutanix-Red Hat partnership could help the vendors compete with VMware in the growing market for Kubernetes platforms that span public and private clouds.

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Komprise COO talks 2021 growth and future software plans

  Krishna Subramanian, COO of Komprise, discusses improvements made to the company's flagship data management software and updates planned for the remainder of the year.

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Mexican production studio storage needs supported by Quantum

  Quantum's StorNext File System supports new Mexican production studio looking to grow their business worldwide with an expandable NVMe storage setup and ongoing tape backups.

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  New HPE Alletra extends cloud console to Primera, Nimble

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise's new Alletra storage brand will bear striking similarity to Primera and Nimble arrays on the operating system and management front.

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Distributed storage carves niches for enterprise use

  Numerous vendors specializing in distributed storage and other distributed services look to expand userbases and find new appeal for enterprise customers.

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Datadobi touts SMB and product streamlining in update

  Datadobi's 5.12 update unites software under a single engine and adds SMB file transfer support, as the company looks to evolve next year.

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  Pure Storage adds service options for FlashStack, Portworx

  Pure Storage users can now choose consumption-based pricing for FlashStack converged infrastructure and Portworx storage for containerized workloads.

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Cubbit offers 'green' distributed cloud storage option

  New EU startup aims to offer alternative to major cloud storage with a distributed model, offering increased security and potentially less environmental waste for a lower cost.

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Civo and StorageOS partner for Kubernetes in the cloud

  Civo, a managed Kubernetes cloud service, selects StorageOS to provide lightweight, persistent storage for their customers' container application needs and future database storage.

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  IBM FlashSystem adds storage as a service, attack protection

  IBM introduces new consumption-based Storage as a Service for FlashSystem based on performance, capacity and contract term; and adds Safeguarded Copy to guard against cyberattacks.

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  StrongBox Data's StrongLink adds multisite storage management

  StrongLink version 3.2 adds new features to StrongBox Data's flagship software, including multisite storage management, a command-line interface and more.

• July 12, 2021 12 Jul'21

  Flexify.IO CTO says multi-cloud migration within easy reach

  Multi-cloud storage and migration can be a costly hassle, but Flexify.IO CTO Sergey Kandaurov claims his company's flagship product can help eliminate fees and woes about lock-in.

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  Micron 3D XPoint supply will end with $900M fab sale to TI

  Micron's $900 million deal to sell its Utah semiconductor factory to Texas Instruments will end the plant's 3D XPoint supplies for Intel Optane memory and storage products.

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Nvidia finalizes GPUDirect Storage 1.0 to accelerate AI, HPC

  Nvidia GPUDirect Storage's driver hit 1.0 status to enable direct memory access between GPU and storage and boost the performance of data-intensive AI, HPC and analytics workloads.

• June 29, 2021 29 Jun'21

  Cloud storage market calms after historic year

  While 2020 became an unpredictable year for companies with regard to storage needs, analysts are predicting a much quieter and standard outlook for the rest of 2021.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  New Seagate Exos storage uses self-healing drive technology

  Seagate's Exos Corvault petabyte-scale storage array introduces self-healing HDD capabilities to ease maintenance and adds erasure coding to protect data at lower overhead.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Datadobi's DobiMigrate helps Decathlon sprint to cloud storage

  Datadobi's DobiMigrate software allows Decathlon, an international athleticwear retailer, to transition its data to numerous major cloud providers and sunset on-prem data centers.

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Ctera teams with Varonis on new file monitoring, controls

  Varonis adds another storage provider to its growing list of partners, and Ctera offers increased protection and controls for users via a new partnership.

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Infinidat expands beyond HDDs with new all-solid-state array

  Infinidat's new all-solid-state InfiniBox SSA storage array is built on the same deep-learning software and DRAM cache technology that its flagship disk-based InfiniBox models use.

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Animation studio adopts fully remote workflow using Qumulo

  Animation and advertising studio Psyop transitioned to fully remote work with the help of Qumulo, a hybrid cloud storage vendor with products specifically for media companies.

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  HPE Discover 2021 news and conference guide

  HPE Discover 2021 will take place over three days, beginning June 22. The virtual, on-demand sessions will cover a variety of topics, with an emphasis on edge-to-cloud technology.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Cloudian gives AWS Outposts a bigger home in the data center

  Cloudian Hyperstore's AWS Outpost readiness lets customers deploy on-premises object storage alongside Outposts for more cost-effective and scalable storage.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  NetApp, Equinix team up for hybrid cloud storage subscription

  NetApp will roll out numerous updates to its enterprise catalog, including a new storage-as-a-service subscription that provides hybrid cloud privacy with public cloud features.

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Nasuni offers Windows File alternative on Google Cloud

  Cloud storage vendor Nasuni has made its flagship cloud file storage service available through the Google Cloud Marketplace, with the added enticement of migration services.

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Wasabi CEO plots global expansion for its cloud storage

  New data centers, increased market attention and more are planned for cloud storage company Wasabi by its CEO David Friend after a $137 million Series C funding round.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Pure Storage CEO zones in on enabling digital transformation

  Pure Storage's CEO said the company will probably pursue acquisitions beyond its 2020 Portworx purchase to further assist customers in their digital transformation efforts.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Backblaze B2 update adds more S3 features

  The latest version of Backblaze's B2 cloud storage adds better security features and S3-compatible integrations ahead of a partner API rollout later this year.

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  WANdisco introduces Hive metadata migration to Databricks

  WANdisco LiveData Migrator can now move Hive metadata alongside Hadoop data to Databricks, saving customers from a lengthy and manual transformation process.

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  LucidLink eyes Filespaces upgrade, biz expansion with new funding

  LucidLink CEO Peter Thompson discusses his company's plans into 2021 and new storage market expansion possibilities after a $12 million Series A funding round.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  StorOne moves into the cloud with Azure storage service

  StorOne has expanded its software-defined storage product to Azure, promising lower prices and the ability to adjust storage needs on demand.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Pure Storage updates management tool, integrates Portworx

  Pure launched its first Portworx container storage update since acquiring the startup last year and enabled management through its newly updated Pure1 management tool.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  Dell EMC PowerScale adds all-NVMe, Nvidia GPUDirect options

  A Dell EMC PowerScale update adds a high-end all-NVMe F900 model with Nvidia GPUDirect support for AI and analytics workloads plus a OneFS 9.2 upgrade to improve performance.

• May 08, 2021 08 May'21

  Dell Technologies World 2021 news and conference coverage

  Dell Technologies World is once again virtual. Use this guide to catch up on some recent news from the vendor and the latest announcements once the conference starts.

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Belgian telecom picks Datadobi for NAS migration

  Large-scale storage migrations can be difficult without the help of a software tool, as telecom Proximus Group found.

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Dell Apex launches data storage, cloud as-a-service options

  Dell's new Apex data storage and cloud services take aim at HPE GreenLake and other as-a-service options that bring the public cloud operating model to on-premises infrastructure.

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  HPE storage hones cloud focus with new array, data console

  HPE has sharpened its cloudlike operations approach with a new Alletra storage array, management console and cloud data services available by consumption and subscription options.

• May 03, 2021 03 May'21

  Endeavor Energy sparks colocation move with Datadobi

  Facing impending office construction, Endeavor used Datadobi's DobiMigrate to move its production workloads and corporate file storage to a colocation facility.

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  StorCentric CEO Mihir Shah eyes more acquisitions

  StorCentric CEO Mihir Shah discusses the company's 2021 plans, future acquisitions and more.

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  Excelero adds option to pool NVMe storage on Azure cloud

  A new deployment option for Excelero's NVMesh software-defined storage will target some of the most demanding applications running on Microsoft Azure virtual machines.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Quantum updates StorNext architecture and appliance lineup

  Quantum distilled its StorNext file system down to a single 2U appliance. The new H4000 promises easier deployment without losing StorNext's speed or data management capabilities.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  New IBM Spectrum Fusion storage takes aim at container users

  IBM introduces Spectrum Fusion to target enterprises in container environments that span data center, edge and hybrid cloud environments.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Scality launches Artesca object storage for Kubernetes

  With object storage increasingly becoming primary storage, Scality Artesca targets demanding workloads such as AI, machine learning, big data analytics and in-memory applications.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  StorageOS powers media file movement for IMT's SoDa

  Integrated Media Technologies has selected StorageOS to support its platform for moving media and other unstructured files between storage tiers.

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Intel breaks silence on effects of Micron's 3D XPoint exit

  Intel's director of technology initiatives was surprised by Micron's exit from 3D XPoint business and confirms company's plans to have Optane on emerging CXL interface.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Storj Labs unveils AWS S3-compatible developer gateway

  Storj Labs has unveiled a developer gateway to integrate blockchain-based distributed cloud storage with any Amazon S3-compatible application.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Dell EMC speeds up PowerStore array, debuts lower-cost model

  Dell Technologies launches new lower-cost PowerStore entry model and PowerStore software updates to enhance performance, automation, NVMe over Fibre Channel and Optane support.

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Quobyte CEO says customers need a scale-out mindset

  In order to tackle AI, machine learning and other demanding workloads, enterprises need to break out of their appliance-centric approach to storage, according to Quobyte's CEO.

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Engineering firm mitigates ransomware attack with Nasuni

  Ransomware got in through an exploit in an older version of SQL Server, but Dennis Group used Nasuni to restore its systems back to a pre-attack state with minimal data loss.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  MinIO launches trio of enterprise management features

  MinIO has launched Operator, Console and Subnet Health to make multi-tenant object storage deployment and management for Kubernetes simpler for IT administrators.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  New Vast Data Gemini selling model offers better economics

  Vast Data now allows customers to buy integrated appliances on hardware with the capacity and performance levels of their choice, with full transparency on the hardware costs.

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  What to expect from 2021's data storage conference lineup

  In the coming months, data storage conferences are plentiful. This roundup details dates, sessions and topic areas, from event hosts such as SNIA, Dell and Pure Storage.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Fungible computational storage eyes composable use cases

  Fungible's computational storage anchors a new offering for composable infrastructure. The Fungible Data Center license allows IT teams to consume resources on demand.

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  Iridia CEO sees data storage future written in DNA

  As investors show interest in Iridia's DNA chip technology, its CEO believes using synthetic DNA for data storage will be the way to tackle a yottabyte future.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Pure Storage FlashBlade anchors B2B marketer's Azure cloud

  Digital marketing specialist MultiView deployed a physical Pure Storage FlashBlade for production data, with the ability to consume all-flash storage as a virtual array in Azure.

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Nutanix software transition tops new CEO's to-do list

  Nutanix software licenses account for most of its revenue. The HCI pioneer hired CEO Rajiv Ramaswami away from VMware, which alleges breach of contract.

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  AWS adds serverless capability to S3 object storage

  Amazon introduced a feature to process data as it is being retrieved from S3. This allows use cases such as on-the-fly format conversion or PII redaction.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Diamanti Spektra completes cloud trifecta with GCP support

  Diamanti Spektra 3.2 added support for Google Cloud, extending the platform to all three major public clouds, as well as CRI-O support for customers that want to replace Docker.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Micron ends 3D XPoint development to focus on CXL products

  Micron ends development of 3D XPoint and shifts its focus to CXL-enabled memory products, raising questions on the future supply source of Intel's Optane memory.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Cloud file vendors try to woo enterprise storage buyers

  Some enterprises want cloud file storage to complement or replace legacy NAS. Several product enhancements last week target issues of cost, data security and remote shared storage.

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Pure Storage cloud deployments include dedicated bare metal

  Pure Storage on Equinix Metal allows customers to build a Pure Storage cloud on dedicated all-flash tenants. Equinix is rolling it out in 18 U.S. and international markets.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  StorOne builds hybrid flash arrays based on Seagate hardware

  StorOne S1 flash management stack is tuned for optimal run on Seagate Exos Application Platform 5U servers. Four configurations are available that mix Seagate disk and SSDs.

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  COVID-19 research spurs IHME to 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo storage

  Seattle's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation opts for 18 TB HDDs in Qumulo hybrid storage appliances to handle massive data sets generated through COVID-19 research.

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Next Pathway update targets Hadoop migrations

  Next Pathway's data scanning and migration tools can now analyze Hadoop ecosystems and translate its codes to cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake and Amazon RedShift.

• February 22, 2021 22 Feb'21

  Cloud file storage still nascent, but growing quickly

  File storage lags behind object and block storage in the market, but Nasuni's offering on Google Cloud indicates a growing appetite for the format.

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  Violin, Stratoscale data storage technologies rise from dust

  StorCentric's data storage technologies added Violin Systems in a bargain pickup last year. Zadara this week snagged the remnants of Stratoscale's HCI software.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Pure Storage nudges all-flash toward hybrid workloads

  Pure Storage all-flash revolves around unified fast file and object storage to consolidate local and cloud-based application data on a single high-performance flash platform.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  DataCore's Caringo buy spotlights need for object storage

  Object store acquisitions by DataCore, Nvidia and Quantum underscore the growing importance of object storage to address enterprise workloads ranging from archives to analytics.

• February 14, 2021 14 Feb'21

  The best enterprise storage products of 2020

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  IBM, LucidLink the latest to tackle cloud file storage

  Startup LucidLink has bundled its Filespaces file system with IBM's Cloud Object Storage offerings. Distributed work teams can access shared data as network-attached storage.

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  IBM flash storage seeks wider appeal with FlashSystem array

  New IBM flash storage includes 1U FlashSystem building block starting at 38 TB. The launch comes as IBM consolidates storage products around its FlashSystem flagship.

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Cloudian adds object storage for containers on VMware vSAN

  Cloudian's integration with VMware's vSAN Data Persistence platform allows its customers to consolidate on-premises and cloud-native applications on the same object storage software.

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Panasas storage yearns for expanded enterprise presence

  After six years as chief operating officer, Panasas CEO Tom Shea took the helm last year to pilot the company's storage roadmap.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  QLC flash drives are hot '21 trend, pressure HDDs on price

  Hot 2021 trends in memory and storage will include the ramp of QLC SSDs in enterprise flash arrays, pressuring HDDs on price, increasing Optane adoption and NVMe over TCP.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Qumulo update, Quantum arrays target unstructured data

  File vendors Qumulo and Quantum product launches differ in approach, but the impetus is identical: giving enterprise data centers the tools to subdue sprawling unstructured data.

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Storage as a service trending in 2021

  Questions for 2021: Can Dell reach the Apex? How green is HPE's GreenLake? Large vendors highlight storage as a service as a hot area, but mass acceptance could take years.

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  DataCore Software buys Caringo to fill object storage gap

  DataCore's acquisition of object storage pioneer Caringo plugs a hole in its software-defined storage and advances its goal of block, file and object storage from a single vendor.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Hyperscale shift to 18 TB, SMR HDDs top '21 hard disk trends

  New 20 TB energy-assisted and SMR hard disk options are starting to ship, but experts predict the top 2021 trend in data center hard drives will be the transition to 18 TB HDDs.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Vast Data storage packages Nvidia GPU for AI processing

  Vast Data storage reference architecture combines the vendor's Universal Storage all-flash system with Nvidia DGX supercomputers. NFS multipathing over RDMA boosts AI data training.

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Hitachi Vantara follows the herd on Kubernetes storage

  HKS allows Hitachi Unified Compute Systems systems to directly manage file volumes and objects on clustered Kubernetes nodes. Hitachi acquired the software code from Containership.

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  New Infinidat CEO discusses storage transition

  Ex-Western Digital exec Phil Bullinger replaces founder Moshe Yanai as CEO of storage vendor Infinidat. Bullinger says Infinidat surpassed 6 exabytes under management last year.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Services, cloud dominated data storage news in 2020

  Storage as a service, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes storage, economic fallout from COVID-19, and backup mergers and acquisitions dominated data storage news in 2020.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Enterprise data storage startups to watch in 2021

  Launching a data storage startup is always challenging, and the pandemic made it even tougher in 2020. Here are six startups that can change the way enterprises buy storage.

• December 31, 2020 31 Dec'20

  30 TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 20 TB HDDs push storage limits in 2020

  Enterprise storage drives continued to push the limits of performance and capacity in 2020, with fast new PCIe Gen4 SSDs at 30 TB and energy-assisted HDDs at 20 TB.

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  VMware sues new Nutanix CEO Ramaswami for breach of contract

  VMware said Nutanix CEO Ramaswami broke his contractual obligations when he interviewed for top job at its HCI rival while still working as VMware's chief operating officer.

• December 28, 2020 28 Dec'20

  Zadara VPSAs help power Pratum security services

  Security services firm Pratum was ahead of the curve in adopting Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VSPA) storage as a service to quickly scale capacity and performance.

• December 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

  Research lab mixes Excelero NVMesh, SSDs for performance pop

  La Jolla Institute turned to Excelero NVMesh to help deal with SSD storage required for COVID-19 research, two 10-foot microscopes generating TBs of data a day, and remote work.