NetApp previews cloud-native Astra Data Store
NetApp has launched an early access program for its Astra Data Store, cloud-native software providing shared NFS file and block storage to new and old applications, meaning containers and...
Storage news ticker – May 18
Cloud and backup storage service provider Backblaze has announced an improved channel program. It will drive joint marketing activities, provide co-branded collateral, and establish market development funds to drive...
Western Digital spins out 10-platter drives
Western Digital is sampling conventional 22TB and shingled 26TB 10-platter disk drives to cloud service providers with mass availability scheduled for the summer. It is also introducing SSDs using...
Dell supercharges storage hardware underlying its software-defined storage
Dell is raising its storage hardware and software game with updates to its PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerFlex systems that increase capacity, performance, automation, data mobility and security.
PowerMax is...
Project Alpine: native Dell storage services in the public cloud and CloudOps
Dell's Project Alpine could open the door to the big cloud service providers adopting hybrid multi-cloud as a reality and porting their software to each other's environments.
Project Alpine has...
AWS launches IceLake Nitro SSD instances
AWS has added fast compute instances called I4i using Intel Xeon IceLake servers and 30TB of NVMe Nitro SSD storage.
These Nitro SSDs and the Xeons deliver up to 60...
Infinidat accelerates high-end array
High-end enterprise array supplier Infinidat has added a faster top-end system with boosted hardware and software, increased cyber-resilience, and enhanced AIOps and DevOps capabilities.
Infinidat supplies InfiniBox arrays with DRAM...
SingleStore will measure your app’s ‘data intensity’
SingleStore is introducing a "Data Intensity Index" to help companies understand how data-intensive their RDBMS applications are and how SingleStore’s database can cope with high data intensity levels.
The company...
Storage News Ticker – 22 April
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Unstructured NAS and object data migrator and manager Datadobi has signed Climb Channel Solutions to distribute its products to resellers and solution providers in the EMEA region.
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Gartner has released...
Pure Storage wants to work with data gravity, not against it
Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo expressed two noteworthy views in an interview with Blocks & Files – that hyperconverged infrastructure doesn’t exist inside hyperscaler datacenters, and that data needs...
Storage news ticker – 12 April
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In-cloud Saas data protector Clumio announced news of its Clumio Protect for Amazon DynamoDB, with granular recovery, improved audit readiness and reduced TCO for long-term backups. Clumio said it...
Infinidat sticks to its guns for on-premises growth
Infinidat will strengthen its products with access to a wider range of client protocols, as it sticks to its on-premises high-end storage focus – but not to the extent...