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Software defined storage
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 ...