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- July 25, 2019
25 Jul'19
Mini XL+, Mini E added to iXsystems FreeNAS Mini series
Open source storage hardware provider iXsystems added two new models to its FreeNAS Mini lineup: the FreeNAS Mini XL+ for professionals and FreeNAS Mini E for small offices.
- July 25, 2019
25 Jul'19
Public cloud storage use still in early days for enterprises
IT organizations are still in the early stages of their cloud storage journeys as they figure out the best use cases beyond backup, archive and disaster recovery.
- July 18, 2019
18 Jul'19
Toshiba to rename flash memory business Kioxia
"Their rationale must have been that they wanted to keep the washing machines and the hard drives with the same company because they both spin around."
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- July 18, 2019
18 Jul'19
Infinidat storage wants to rescue stranded IBM customers
Infinidat storage takes direct aim at IBM with Data Rescue Program. IBM users can trade in IBM XIV and FlashSystem A9000 gear for Infinidat InfiniBox disk arrays.
- July 17, 2019
17 Jul'19
Quest QoreStor adds cloud tier, fast tier and a UI makeover
QoreStor's latest update adds many new features, including the unique ability to dedicate a high-speed disk area that can be deduplicated without sacrificing recovery speed.
- July 16, 2019
16 Jul'19
Western Digital IntelliFlash adds NVMe, SAS storage
The expanded Western Digital IntelliFlash models include low-end N5100 NVMe and high-density HD2160 SAS arrays. IntelliFlash OS now supports live migration to an S3-compatible cloud.
- July 12, 2019
12 Jul'19
Google's Elastifile buy shows need for cloud file storage
Google buys partner Elastifile's scale-out file system to bolster options for enterprises looking to shift NFS-based applications to public cloud storage.
- July 11, 2019
11 Jul'19
IBM Spectrum storage refresh targets object, AI metadata
IBM Spectrum storage sharpens its focus on AWS backup and metadata across heterogeneous storage. IBM increases the density of object storage and previews the VersaStack model with NVMe.
- 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.
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- July 02, 2019
02 Jul'19
Languishing Vexata storage gets bailed out by StorCentric
Roll-up company StorCentric expands its storage holdings with Vexata storage arrays for NVMe flash. The Vexata deal follows the June acquisition of backup software vendor Retrospect.
- July 02, 2019
02 Jul'19
Open source machine learning accelerates winemaking
Using open source machine learning, Palmaz Vineyards developed a tool to automatically alert winemakers of environmental conditions. Soon, the data flowed like wine.
- June 28, 2019
28 Jun'19
Super Micro storage server refresh homes in on NVMe flash
Product revamp includes new BigTwin SuperServer and launch of 1U Petascale line. Super Micro storage servers are optimized for EDSFF NVMe SSDs and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory.
- June 27, 2019
27 Jun'19
Growth of dark data shows need for better classification
Dark data causes all sorts of problems, but there are ways to mitigate it. However, customers continue to add storage as a bandage solution, because it's cheaper and simpler.
- June 27, 2019
27 Jun'19
Cloudian teams with Seagate, VMware on new storage options
Cloudian's latest partnerships will give customers options to use the object storage in new high-density Seagate appliances and VMware-based cloud environments.