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• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  Portworx focuses on protecting container apps

  The Portworx PX-Enterprise 2.2 storage software update adds single-command backup of container-based data and Kubernetes resources to S3-based object storage.

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  Tintri by DDN storage customers unsure of roadmap

  After buying Tintri in 2018, DataDirect Networks moved to rebuild the VM storage vendor's engineering. But customers claim DDN hasn't communicated product roadmap plans.

• May 20, 2019 20 May'19

  Red Hat storage shifts focus to OpenShift, hybrid cloud, HCI

  Red Hat changes focus from selling stand-alone Ceph and Gluster products to promoting storage technologies designed for OpenShift, hybrid cloud and hyper-convergence deployments.

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  IBM-Red Hat deal raises no storage red flags yet

  Storage practitioners say they expect Red Hat's 'new overlords' at IBM to tread lightly on Red Hat storage, despite potential product overlaps after the $34 billion deal closes.

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage to move from Gluster to Ceph

  Red Hat's plans to change the core technology in its OpenShift Container Storage from Gluster to Ceph with an upcoming major product release leaves customers with lots of questions.

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Midrange NetApp flash looks to steal Dell EMC's thunder

  NetApp expands All-Flash FAS flagship array with NVMe-connected A320 building block. The vendor claims a 24-node cluster scales to 35 PB of usable storage.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Infinidat storage fabric sews disk arrays to hybrid cloud

  Infinidat hasn't followed the storage array crowd into all-flash storage, but it is following the trends of adding flexible consumption pricing and storage analytics.

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  DDN storage acquisitions continue with Nexenta pickup

  DataDirect Networks keeps expanding by acquisition. The high-performance computing storage specialist this week made its third acquisition in the past year, picking up software-defined storage ...

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Updated hybrid cloud backup available from Pure Storage

  In an effort to provide users with unified backup across multiple environments, Pure Storage has expanded its Evergreen Storage Service to provide a hybrid cloud backup system.

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Dell EMC cloud storage hardware shines light on cloud

  VMware plays a larger role in the Dell EMC storage ecosystem as the vendor rolls out new cloud services to challenge archrival NetApp's cloud storage portfolio.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Technicolor taps Excelero NVMe storage for blockbuster films

  Excelero's low-latency NVMe flash storage helps Technicolor project teams work on blockbuster films with greater efficiency through concurrent access to data.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Dell EMC Unity XT expands midrange storage overlap

  Even as it plans to winnow away overlapping midrange SANs, Dell EMC adds four capacity models to its Unity XT series designed to broaden support for VMware Cloud.

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  New hybrid Dell EMC cloud aimed at rising flood of data

  As enterprise data centers cope with newly generated data, the new Dell EMC cloud platform sharpens VMware tool sets to build, implement and manage storage in hybrid environments.

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Hitachi Vantara storage and data protection at your service

  Customers that opt for service-based consumption have Hitachi Vantara's storage hardware installed in their data center, and the vendor handles management and backup.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Google's Anthos drives new storage and data management API

  Google's hybrid and multi-cloud vision for running stateful container-based applications sparks work on a new API for data and storage management.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Lightbits Labs soups up NVMe fabric with all-flash SuperSSD

  Startup Lightbits Labs prepares for an NVMe-over-TCP push, with a storage array designed for AI and cloud applications that uses its LightOS software and proprietary accelerator cards.

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  New Micron SSD series provides faster access and response

  The new series is the third generation of the non-volatile memory express solid-state drives from Micron, and offers capacities up to 15.36 TB.

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Cisco, Dell Technologies renew VxBlock dalliance

  Cisco and Dell Technologies may be rivals in the server business, but when it comes to converged infrastructure, the two vendors remain strong partners. Cisco, EMC and VMware in 2009 formed VCE, a ...

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  Qumulo storage IPO possible, CEO says

  Qumulo's scale-out storage is available as branded NAS appliances and as a software-only license. An integrated NAS fabric replicates data from local arrays to the public cloud.

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  MemVerge converges memory, storage on Intel Optane DIMMs

  MemVerge's converged storage and memory appliance hitches a ride on Intel Optane DIMMs -- a risky strategy that can pay off if Optane DC persistent memory becomes a hit.

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Formulus Black software stores data in persistent memory

  Formulus Black has resurrected Symbolic IO technology to store data from database and analytics workloads in ultrafast system memory without changing the application code.

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Carbonite integrating Mozy backup, ending free edition support

  Carbonite will end support for the free edition of Mozy's consumer product on Monday. The cloud data protection heavyweight would like to convert remaining Mozy customers onto its own ...

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  Google Cloud courts Actifio, HYCU for data protection

  While Google made a big deal of working with open source software companies at its Google Cloud Next Conference, it also has been lining up data protection partners. Secondary storage management ...

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  E8 Storage adds file to flash with BeeGFS overlay for HPC

  NVMe all-flash startup E8 Storage forms 'symbiotic' relationship to support BeeGFS scale-out parallel file system on its NVMe block arrays. Vendors plan to attack the HPC market.

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Excelero strikes deal with Lenovo for NVMesh

  Startup Excelero snared Lenovo as its first major server partner to resell its software that can pool ultra-fast NVMe-based storage resources across a network. Lenovo has added Excelero's NVMesh ...

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Quantum NVMe storage array supports dense media production

  Quantum claims the F-Series, its NVMe storage array, will simplify and speed up workflow and improve end-to-end storage capabilities for media production environments.

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  Carbonite and Webroot close deal, focus on ransomware

  After closing its largest acquisition, Carbonite said it will emphasize, at least initially, a "do-no-harm" method in the integration efforts. In a deal that closed March 26, the backup and ...

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  Dell Technologies World 2019 news and analysis

  Dell Tech World 2019 promises plenty of news, from hyper-convergence to the ever-present cloud. Vendor news, such as product consolidation and overlap, will also be discussed.

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Long-awaited Intel Optane DC persistent memory module debuts

  Intel promises lots of speed from the Optane DC persistent memory module it took a long time delivering. It also rolled out a new dual-port Optane SSD and ultradense flash SSD.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Storwize launch brings NVMe to midrange IBM flash arrays

  IBM brings NVMe to the midrange with the latest Storwize SAN array, which includes Spectrum Virtualize software bundle for storage management, data protection and security.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Pure Storage buys Compuverde, expands file storage

  Pure Storage's second acquisition builds on its unstructured data focus, as Compuverde's file system software runs in virtual NAS or hyper-converged modes.

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Komprise launches NAS migration tool, user-driven archiving

  Komprise says customers wanted NAS migration as a separate tool, so it now makes it available even if you don't buy its full Intelligent Data Management platform.

• March 27, 2019 27 Mar'19

  Portworx adds security and DR options for container storage

  Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp have invested in the container storage software startup. Now, the company aims to get those vendors' customers interested.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  NAS vendor RackTop Systems gets first funding haul

  RackTop Systems has racked up its first round of outside capital, six years after launching its “cyber-converged" BrickStor NAS appliances. The Fulton, Md.-based vendor received $15 million in a ...

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  7 storage questions ahead of Dell Technologies World

  We'd like to know where Dell EMC stands on midrange storage, NVMe over fabrics, data protection, hyper-convergence, cloud and containers, among other things.

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  SoftNAS Cloud users get security fix for vulnerability

  SoftNAS says a web server and load balancer component it added to strengthen security for its Cloud NAS actually could enable unauthorized access to the web admin interface.

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  At Dell Technologies World, Dell will put its stamp on EMC

  Dell EMC storage has taken on more of a 'Dell' feel over the past year, thanks in part to reliance on PowerEdge Servers and spinning out Pivotal Software into a public company.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  Pure Storage AIRI trains FlashBlade NAS at hyperscalers

  Pure Storage teams with Nvidia and Cisco to bring out FlashBlade with Hyperscale AIRI, extending its AIRI partnership with Nvidia, while introducing Pure-Cisco FlashStack for AI.

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Ctera Networks and HPE combine for hyper-converged gateway

  Ctera and HPE partner on new Edge X Series cloud gateway appliance that integrates Ctera's global file system and HPE's SimpliVity hyper-converged software.

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  SwiftStack adds a disk object-based AI reference architecture

  SwiftStack's reference architecture for AI and machine learning bundles Nvidia servers for compute and disk-based Cisco or Dell EMC servers to scale object storage.

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Alluxio adds support for more than 1 billion files

  An update to Alluxio's data management software boosts scalability to more than 1 billion files, adds a POSIX API and enables a job service for replication and data transfer.

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Mellanox SmartNIC SNAPs into NVMe SSDs

  As it waits to get acquired by Nvidia, Mellanox brings out an NVMe SNAP device that lets storage vendors place code directly on BlueField SmartNIC network cards.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing

  Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ...

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search

  Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage

  The NVM Express consortium finalized the specs for NVMe-over-TCP fabrics in November. Lightbits Labs' launch features software-defined storage, an appliance and an accelerator card.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Vexata readies VX-Cloud architecture with server partners

  Vexata is thinking outside the box. The NVMe all-flash array vendor is sampling VX-Cloud Data Acceleration Platform reference architecture with major server vendors. The hardware design combines ...

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Paradox: Violin Systems all-flash stays small to grow large

  Violin engineers all-flash storage systems for data centers that require ultrafast performance. The vendor also added ISE G4 arrays from X-IO for secondary storage.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'

  Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ...

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Computational storage takes spotlight in new NGD Systems SSD

  See how startup NGD Systems' 16 TB NVMe-based SSD can run applications inside the SSD controller to eliminate the need to move data between storage and host.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Infinidat InfiniBox preps SMB protocol nodes for Windows

  All-flash arrays command most of the attention, but Infinidat claims its InfiniBox arrays deliver the performance of flash on commodity-priced spinning disk.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers

  Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments.

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation

  Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4.

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  Pure Storage cloud arrays add flash to Rackspace Service Blocks

  Rackspace data centers have the option to buy Pure Storage FlashArray//X as a consumable service on a dedicated array to facilitate running block storage in clouds.

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Startup Vast Data: Death to disk storage

  With $80 million in funding, the all-flash startup unveils its exabyte-scale Universal Storage system that it claims will make disk storage unnecessary in the data center.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  New NVMe Western Digital SSDs target cloud, hyperscale and edge

  Western Digital adds two new enterprise NVMe SSDs as the enterprise and cloud markets shift from SATA SSDs to faster NVMe. The new drives include 64-layer 3D NAND.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage

  German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors.

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Pure Storage all-flash gains ObjectEngine backup appliance

  All-flash vendor Pure Storage provides ObjectEngine inline deduplication appliance to reduce data locally and shuttle it to S3-based object storage for analytics, DR and reuse.

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Lenovo TruScale adds twist to cloud infrastructure on demand

  With TruScale Infrastructure Services, Lenovo tries to catch up with Cisco, Dell and HPE, customizing TruScale to a customer's workload and helping customers avoid capital expenditures.

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019

  Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ...

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  NetApp founder Dave Hitz steps away after 26 years

  Retiring founder of NetApp Dave Hitz says the vendor is well-positioned for industrywide storage transitions, but recent sales results show challenges remain.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  HPE InfoSight to add support for partners' storage products

  HPE GM of storage Milan Shetti outlines plans to add support for partners' storage products in its InfoSight predictive analytics platform and talks up its AI operations-centric strategy.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  New Dell EMC all-flash Isilon hardware compresses NAS data

  Dell EMC Isilon F810 all-flash NAS array and ClarityNow software tackle unstructured file data through increased performance and data reduction over previous versions.

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  IBM Storage Solutions draw up blueprint for blockchain storage

  IBM offers up blueprints for blockchain storage, with NVMe arrays and software for scale-out.

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Top Dell EMC storage technologists talk NVMe, SCM and containers

  Podcast: Dell EMC technologists discuss their 2019 expectations for the growth of storage class memory, NVMe-oF, multi-cloud, container and smart storage technologies.

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  IBM storage revenues skid to the finish line

  IBM storage hit another blue period last quarter. After pulling out of a revenue slump to start 2018, IBM last week closed an uneven year with declining sales of storage hardware, mirroring flat ...

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal

  Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ...

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics

  Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Vexata storage gets a boost from Fujitsu deal

  Fujitsu North America agrees to sell Vexata arrays. The vendors plan demos in the Fujitsu Solutions Lab and are preparing reference architecture SKUs for Oracle, SAP and VMware.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Cloud storage outlook favors private and multi-clouds in 2019

  Experts say 'we've reached the point of no return' on cloud storage, as cloud-native applications, private and multi-clouds and Kubernetes gain prominence in 2019.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  University of Utah prescribes Hitachi storage for data woes

  University of Utah Health extends its Hitachi Vantara storage implementation, adding the Hitachi Content Platform object storage to modernize its data center.

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Enterprise flash storage price drop tops 2019 predictions

  Flash storage buyers will find lower NAND prices and more enterprise options in 2019, according to the crystal balls of industry executives and analysts.

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  DataCore storage gets Kubernetes and Docker plugins

  New DataCore plugins for Kubernetes and Docker will help customers developing container-based applications and microservices to access its software-defined storage products.

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Storage startup Termaxia stares at clouds

  A startup claims it has pilots and production deployments in place for its petabyte-scale appliance that provides continuous availability without a cache.

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment

  One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested ...

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs

  Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million ...

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  2018 data management and storage Products of the Year finalists

  The field of entrants in our 17th annual Products of Year contest has been winnowed down to 51 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze glory in five data storage categories.

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Storage systems and management tools: 2018 POY finalists

  Storage management tools candidates for the 2018 Storage Products of the Year competition skew heavily toward simpler interfaces and greater access to real-time data.

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Enterprise storage arrays: 2018 Products of the Year finalists

  Eleven storage vendors, including legacy brands and some startups, entered arrays for consideration in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2018 Products of the Year competition.

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Cloud and software-defined storage products: 2018 POY finalists

  Multi-cloud data management and container support are themes among the 2018 software-defined and cloud storage finalists of TechTarget's Storage Products of the Year competition.

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  All-flash startup Storbyte previews Eco-Flash file system

  Storbyte Eco-Flash drive technology situates Hydra ASIC chips on drives to prolong endurance in write-heavy environments. Eco-Flash stripes data on multiple M.2 modules.

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Toshiba set to launch 16 TB HDD for cloud-scale users

  Toshiba will try to get a jump on rivals Seagate and Western Digital with a new 16 TB hard disk drive that targets cloud-scale users in need of low-cost, high-density storage.

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Cloud, data management top 2019 enterprise data storage options

  Data management -- on premises and in the cloud -- appears on the rise as a 2019 spending priority for storage pros, while flash arrays and converged infrastructure may have peaked.

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  2018 M&A in storage centered on flash, cloud and backup

  No billion-dollar blockbusters in 2018 storage M&A activity as vendors stayed away from big deals and concentrated on filling gaps in their flash, cloud and backup portfolios.

• December 26, 2018 26 Dec'18

  Dell’s VMware, Nutanix duke out HCI market dominance

  Major storage and server vendors are angling for position in hyper-converged systems. But as has been the case for a while, the jockeying really is for who finishes in third place. The battle for ...

• December 26, 2018 26 Dec'18

  Hitachi Pentaho integration aims to subdue unstructured data

  Hitachi Pentaho data integration presents Hitachi Content Platform as an object-based data lake to send cleansed data to multiple cloud targets.

• December 23, 2018 23 Dec'18

  Broadcom Brocade launches 2 new SAN management products

  Broadcom releases new Brocade SAN management software to help users visualize and optimize storage and a new Fibre Channel extension switch to speed long-distance replication.

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Virtual Instruments WorkloadWisdom adds NVMe-oF support

  Virtual Instruments product update adds support for NVMe over Fibre Channel workload modeling and improves testing capabilities in large-scale environments.

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Minio prepares new object storage dish for 2019

  The CEO of object storage startup Minio wants to change the way people talk about his company in 2019, beginning with the way they say its name. Most people pronounce it “MIN-EO” but CEO and ...

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  NVMe flash storage is coming to an enterprise near you

  Hyperscale data centers are the early adopters of non-volatile memory express flash, as vendors lay out plans to further flash devices and NVMe fabrics in coming years.

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  HYCU goes deeper into Nutanix protection

  HYCU, which sells data protection specifically designed for Nutanix hyper-converged systems, today enhanced features for backing up the platform it has hitched its wagon to. Comtrade Software ...

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Elastifile adds cloud file storage service on Google

  Elastifile's new managed Cloud File Service on the Google Cloud Platform is designed to give customers NAS storage with a self-service, software-as-a-service-type experience.

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Legacy storage vendors gain in cloud era, IDC says

  External storage systems are all-but-obsolete in the software-defined era.  At least that’s the fable shared repeatedly across the industry. But cloud and enterprise customers are collaborating to ...

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  New IBM AI reference architecture uses Nvidia supercomputers

  IBM introduces new AI reference architecture that channel partners will build with Nvidia supercomputers, the IBM Spectrum Scale parallel file system and IBM flash storage.

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  VMware tracking stock is history, as Dell preps for public trading

  It’s official: Dell Technologies once again will become a public company, after gaining hard-won approval to buy back VMware tracking stock from shareholders in a transaction approaching $24 ...

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Microsoft Azure storage team wants simpler flash devices

  Microsoft's Project Denali proposes industry specifications to spur NVMe storage device innovation for Azure and other cloud providers. Will storage vendors cooperate?

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Broadcom Emulex flashes Gen 7 Fibre Channel adapter for NVMe

  Broadcom releases new Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel host bus adapter designed for high-performance NVMe-based flash storage systems with support for 32GFC and 64GFC and PCIe 4.0.

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Veeam updates Availability Suite 9.5, N2WS platform

  Veeam updates to its flagship product and AWS data protection include the ability to migrate old data to cheaper cloud or object storage. Update 4 of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 is scheduled to be ...

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Portworx update targets hybrid and multi-cloud deployments

  PX-Enterprise 2.0 moves beyond storage for stateful container-based applications to provide data migration and management across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  HubStor adds continuous data protection, version control

  HubStor added continuous data protection and version control to its cloud storage platform. The continuous data protection (CDP) provides agentless monitoring of specific file system directories to ...

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  Komprise data management helps Boone County archive to Azure

  Komprise's data management software helps Indiana's Boone County government archive unstructured data in Azure cloud storage and reduce on-site storage.