Storage news ticker – July 29
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Arcserve has extended its SaaS Backup offering to provide simple, secure (immutable), and scalable data protection for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Azure Active environments....
StorONE drops capacity-based pricing and boosts software efficiency
StorONE has introduced a per-drive pricing model and updated its Storage Engine software to deliver more IOPS from fewer drives, automatically tier from SSDs to disk drives with no...
Fungible testing computational storage on DPUs
Fungible, a developer of Data Processing Unit (DPU) chips for offloading east-west networking operations including storage array access from server X86 CPUs, is testing computational storage applications on the...
PowerMore: Dell gives hardware, networking and software boost to PowerStore
Dell EMC is updating its mid-range unified file and block PowerStore array with new and faster hardware and software.
PowerStore was launched in 2020 and Dell says that 12,000 systems...
Dell releases PowerMaxOS 10 array software
Dell has delivered PowerMaxOS 10 software which is needed to run the two new PowerMax arrays, 2500 and 8500, announced in May.
This is high-end block+file array territory – PowerMax...
CXL memory pools: Just how big can they be?
CXL 2.0 will enable memory pooling, which sounds great, but a bit vague. How big can the memory pools be? There is no firm answer yet, but we can...
The emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion
Dominant private/public cloud abstraction layers could exclude independent vendors from suppliers' customer bases.
Dell and HPE are erecting public cloud-like abstraction layers over their on-premises hardware and software systems, transforming...
HPE GreenLake spreads its storage wings
HPE has expanded its public cloud-like GreenLake subscription offering under a Private Cloud Enterprise banner with eight new services: backup and recovery, block storage, compute operations management, data fabric,...
Lightbits Labs inhales $42 million in funding
Lightbits Labs, which builds software-powered NVMe/TCP-accessed storage servers, has pulled in $42 million in new funding, taking its total funding to $105.3 million.
Update: Funding history revised; 30 June 2022.
It...
iXsystems adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS
iXsystems' TrueNAS, the popular storage software, is getting high availability and SMB clustering for the enterprise.
TrueNAS says it has more than 1 million installations and >10EB of capacity under...
Storage news ticker – June 23
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Data protection and security business Acronis has sponsored another sporting team: Scotland's Hibernian FC. Acronis will become become Hibernian FC's Principal Cyber Protection Partner. It will be supported by...
Boffins design NAND and persistent memory in single SSD reference architecture
Academic researchers have designed a reference architecture SSD, with both NAND and persistent memory inside, for use in database logging and replication.
Such logging is desired for database recoverability and...