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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- November 30, 2018
30 Nov'18
Lagging Dell EMC midrange storage dampens upbeat earnings
Dell EMC on Thursday reported nearly $4 billion in storage revenue in its most recent quarter, marking its third consecutive positive earnings in storage. But executives refrained from sharing ...
- November 29, 2018
29 Nov'18
Hedvig storage gives university more replication, redundancy
Located in the center of Tornado Alley, Pittsburg State University in Kansas gave heavy weight to redundancy and replication before acquiring Hedvig software-defined storage.
- November 29, 2018
29 Nov'18
Actifio revenue up, seeks to align with DevOps, cloud
Actifio is looking to ride a DevOps wave to an initial public offering, but for now the data management vendor is concentrating on bolstering support of its customers and channel partners. Actifio, ...