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Software defined storage

• March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 aims to address complexity concerns

  Red Hat claims new Ceph installer and management dashboard mean administrators won't require a 'degree in distributed systems' to set up storage clusters anymore.

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Samsung spins Stellus Technologies for file storage

  Samsung created Stellus to develop new-fangled file system built on key-value storage and optimized for NVMe flash drives, scalability and high throughput.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Data storage architecture poised for disruption in 2020

  Experts predict edge computing, 5G and containers will fuel computational storage, new storage systems dedicated to container-based applications, and flash-based object stores.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Q&A: SwiftStack object storage zones in on AI, ML, analytics

  Q&A: SwiftStack's founder and president Joe Arnold says disk-based object storage can deliver the concurrency and throughput that AI, machine learning and analytics workloads need.

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  Portworx helps Esri with stateful container storage for IoT

  GIS specialist Esri addresses stateful container storage problem with Portworx' Enterprise software-defined storage in upcoming ArcGIS Analytics for IoT service.

• December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19

  2019 storage mergers and acquisitions covered by clouds

  2019 enterprise data storage mergers and acquisitions often included a cloud angle, followed by data protection, NVMe flash and scale-out file storage.

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  SwiftStack layoffs reflect change in focus to AI, analytics

  Object storage vendor SwiftStack hands out layoff notices for the holidays -- cuts sales, marketing, partner team members, while shifting focus to analytics, AI, machine learning.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Quobyte storage brings satellite imagery down to Earth

  Quobyte storage customer 3vGeomatics produces analytical data on ground deformities that are potential environmental hazards. The distributed file storage replaces NFS.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Startup Komprise extends data analysis to AWS object stores

  Komprise's Intelligent Data Management software expands beyond file storage and tacks on module to analyze AWS cloud object storage usage and spending.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  New DataCore vFilO software pools NAS, object storage

  The new vFilO software provides a scale-out file system and global namespace for unstructured data, facilitating unified access to data through NFS, SMB and S3 protocols.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  SwiftStack 7 storage upgrade targets AI, machine learning use cases

  SwiftStack's latest upgrade extends its ProxyFS file system to the edge and cloud namespace to file data namespace to cater to artificial intelligence, machine learning workloads.

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  New NVMe IBM storage for Spectrum Scale cuts install time

  IBM introduces new NVMe-based flash storage system bundled with Spectrum Scale, enables Spectrum Discover to access backup date, and updates pay-as-you-grow pricing.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  New Datrium DRaaS on AWS targets VMware customers

  Datrium's new disaster recovery service will give VMware users the option to recover their applications and data on demand, in VMware Cloud on AWS, when a system outage hits.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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 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 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 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 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Virtual Instruments makes VirtualWisdom proactive

  A major update to Virtual Instruments' infrastructure management product adds proactive analytics, predictive capacity capabilities, interactive topology maps and iSCSI support.

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Excelero NVMesh 2 supports TCP/IP, Fibre Channel

  Excelero's software-defined storage extends NVMe over fabrics support to TCP/IP and Fibre Channel, but the startup isn't abandoning NVMe over RDMA with its NVMesh 2.

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  IBM storage products get another NVMe booster shot

  IBM bolstered support for NVMe technologies across its storage portfolio with its latest round of product updates, which also adds new Spectrum Discover data management software.

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Elastifile adds automated tiering to cloud object storage

  Cloud file system startup Elastifile is making it easier to shift data to object storage in Amazon and Google using ClearTier policy-based automated tiering.

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Caringo Swarm adds single server option, multi-cloud support

  Caringo aims its Swarm Single Server object storage appliance at companies that want object storage but don't need petabytes of it in a multinode cluster.

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option

  Newly packaged Nasuni Cloud File Services offers a low-cost archive option as part of an effort to expand beyond high-end NAS and collaboration into traditional file and archive workloads.

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Scality Zenko goes GA for multi-cloud data management

  Scality launches Zenko 1.0 multi-cloud data controller software, offering a commercially supported enterprise edition and a freely available open source version.

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  Quantum Xcellis unwraps NVMe-powered StorNext NAS

  Quantum upgrades its StorNext file system to bolster file sharing and replication on Xcellis NVMe flash appliances. It's the first product release under new CEO Jamie Lerner.

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Panzura tackles multi-cloud data management

  Vizion.ai software as a service lets Panzura peer into customer data in on-premises and off-premises clouds to index, search, analyze and control it.

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Scale-out Qumulo NAS qualifies latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

  Qumulo scale-out NAS software can now run on Dell EMC's PowerEdge servers. That means Dell EMC server customers can choose between Qumulo software and Dell EMC's Isilon.

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  CEO outlines Data Dynamics StorageX trends, future features

  Data Dynamics' CEO discusses upcoming StorageX software capabilities designed to help customers find, analyze, move and manage unstructured data in a hybrid cloud environment.

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  New Elastifile CEO intensifies startup's cloud focus

  Elastifile's new CEO plans to increase the company's focus on filling a 'huge missing piece' of enterprise file storage for public clouds and sees more customers shifting away from on-site deployments.

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Cloudian storage adds file sync/share through partner

  Object storage startup Cloudian partnered with UK-based Storage Made Easy on file sync-and-share capabilities designed to target enterprises facing compliance requirements under the European ...

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Ctera Networks adds Dell and HPE gateway appliance options

  Ctera cloud storage gateway appliance portfolio expands with new all-SSD and all-HDD models that enable customers to run multiple applications on the same box.

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  MapR Data Platform gets object tiering and S3 support

  MapR Technologies adds policy-based tiering to its Data Platform to automatically move data across performance, capacity and archive storage on premises and in cloud.

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  SwiftStack 1space facilitates multi-cloud capabilities

  SwiftStack launches single namespace for its object and file storage to ease data access, migration, management and search across private and public clouds.

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Maxta MxSP dons its Red Hat for container storage

  Maxta MxSP hyper-converged infrastructure is expanding integration with Red Hat. The software-only vendor has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which is built on Red Hat ...

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality storage update adds three-server option

  Scality Ring 7.4 file and object storage software takes aim at easing installation and ongoing management, and it adds a lower-cost three-server entry configuration.

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  Updated IBM storage products focus on cost savings and cloud

  IBM storage enhancements focus on data deduplication expansion, cloud-based Storage Insights, VM-based Spectrum NAS and Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  New DataCore CEO looks to MaxParallel to drive expansion

  DataCore CEO Dave Zabrowski takes the reins from founder George Teixeira as the company works to use MaxParallel product to go beyond storage to the software-defined data center.

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  New Red Hat Storage One bundles hardware, SDS

  Red Hat partners with Supermicro on first turnkey storage package, bundling Gluster Storage software, server hardware and support at one price in a single SKU.

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NFS file services to Google Cloud Launcher

  Startup Elastifile makes available push-button option to deploy its NFS-based scale-out file system on hourly or long-term basis with fast solid-state drives on Google Cloud Platform.

• March 30, 2018 30 Mar'18

  Gluster 4.0 updated for containers, cloud

  The first major release of the open source Gluster distributed file system software since December 2009 takes aim at container integration and storage management improvements for hybrid and ...

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  WekaIO CEO says focus will stay on AI, life sciences

  WekaIO CEO Liran Zvibel sees partnerships with HPE, Mellanox and AWS as key for the startup, as it pursues growth opportunities in artificial intelligence and life sciences.

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  New IBM storage products key on NAS, cloud, NVMe over Fabric

  IBM launches new and updated Spectrum software-defined storage products, including a new NAS option, and commits to broadened end-to-end NVMe over Fabrics support by the third quarter.

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Software-defined storage products: 2017 Products of the Year finalists

  The 11 software-defined storage finalists in this year's competition highlight the most recent developments in flash, cloud and container technologies.

• December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17

  NVMe-focused Toshiba storage node software due in '18

  Toshiba plans to deliver storage node software designed to extend the high performance and low latency benefits of NVMe-based solid-state drives over a network fabric. Toshiba Memory America’s ...

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  SwiftStack object storage integrates file protocol support

  New SwiftStack 6.0 storage software supports Universal Access to data with added support for SMB/NFS file protocols to go with Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift object APIs.

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  StorOne attacks bottlenecks with new TRU storage software

  After six years of development, an Israeli startup launches new Total Resource Utilization storage software that aims to eliminate bottlenecks and improve storage efficiency.

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Quobyte preps 2.0 Data Center File System software update

  One startup's 'Google-style' software-defined storage upgrade features 'table stakes,' such as volume mirroring for disaster recovery and support for Mac and Windows clients.

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 adds file, iSCSI, container support

  Red Hat updates Ceph storage software with support for CephFS file system, iSCSI block interface and Linux container-based storage implementations, plus usability improvements.

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  Formation Data Systems exits crowded software-defined market

  Formation Data's recent demise shows the challenges startups face in differentiating products in a crowded software-defined storage market, industry analysts say.

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  The state of the software-defined storage market

  The software-defined storage market is getting a lot of attention these days, piquing the interest of budget-challenged storage managers. But the lure of software running on the cheap may be misleading if you're not ready for some DIY or to ...

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Bringing focus to the software-defined storage market

  Jon Toigo shares two reasons why you should not lose faith despite all the hype surrounding the software-defined storage market.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  VMware vSphere 6 release good news for storage admins

  VMware's vSphere 6 release shows that the vendor is aiming for a completely software-defined data center with a fully virtualized infrastructure.

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain

  Hardware vendors and software-defined storage vendors are joining forces seemingly every day, but who will dominate the SDS marketplace?

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Commodity hardware is a myth

  Software-defined storage vendors preach the concept of commodity storage hardware, but beware: the hardware is just as important as the apps.

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Startup Quobyte joins software-defined storage fray

  The vendor joins the crowded software-defined storage market and touts a parallel file system, fault tolerance and the ability to run on commodity servers.

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  New 96 TB Exablox OneBlox 4312 targets production storage

  Exablox uses global namespace and object-based file system to present itself as NAS share. The 4312 appliance doubles the capacity of the inaugural OneBlox 3308.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Hedvig software-defined storage aims to advance the market

  Hedvig, whose founder created Cassandra and Amazon Dynamo, looks to disrupt storage with a distributed platform that virtualizes hyperscale storage.

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  Software-defined storage definition is still not concrete

  Storage Decisions presenters cut through the 'marketecture' to say what software-defined storage is, and what it isn't.

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Healthcare cloud turns to NexentaStor for storage, HA

  Cloud-hosting firm VM Racks picked NexentaStor software-defined storage because it could scale to hundreds of petabytes and provide high availability.

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Think of ViPR data services as plug-ins, analyst says

  Analyst Greg Schulz explains ViPR 2.0 in easy-to-understand terms, and without getting caught up in unclear definitions of software-defined storage.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Beware software-defined lock-in

  “Avoid vendor lock-in” has been a mantra for a long time by other vendors and marketing promotions. Vendor lock-in is equated to a lack of choices or an impediment to making a change in the future. ...

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  EMC aims to define software-defined storage with ViPR

  EMC World 2013 features just one major product announcement as EMC pushes its software-defined storage message around ViPR.

• May 06, 2013 06 May'13

  EMC World 2013: EMC ViPR has vendor on software-defined storage route

  EMC ViPR, the vendor's software-defined storage technology, is designed to manage heterogeneous storage as one pool while adding cloud features.

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  SwiftStack enters software-defined storage race

  SwiftStack, which claims to be building software-defined object storage, today said it has raised $7.6 million in seed and series A funding. CEO and founder Joe Arnold said the San Francisco-based ...

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  VMware software-defined data center bolstered by Virsto acquisition

  The Virsto acquisition could strengthen the VMware software-defined data center and help fight off advances from Microsoft Hyper-V, experts say.

• September 14, 2009 14 Sep'09

  GreenBytes launches data deduplication for primary and secondary data storage

  Startup GreenBytes builds file system based on Sun's ZFS to produce storage systems that deduplicate primary and secondary block and file data; supports iSCSI, CIFS and NFS.