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Software defined storage

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Amazon buys NVMe startup E8 Storage to boost public cloud

  The E8 Storage portfolio includes D-24 appliances that pack 24 NVMe SSDs in 2U, plus software-defined storage software for reference hardware with major server vendors.

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  DataCore adds new HCI, analytics, subscription price options

  DataCore adds an HCI appliance based on Dell hardware, a cloud-based predictive analytics engine for proactive maintenance and new pricing options for its software-defined storage.

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  Scality Ring upgrade targets hybrid cloud data management

  Scality Ring8 file and object storage adds Zenko cloud data orchestration -- called Extended Data Management (XDM) -- but for now that feature is a separate software installation.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 targets ease of use, hybrid cloud

  SUSE will ship its Ceph-based Enterprise Storage update next month, with management, data protection and cloud integration improvements. Its product roadmap includes containerized Ceph and HCI.

• 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 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 ...

• 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 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 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 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.