NetApp appoints chief product officer who doesn’t look after all products
NetApp has appointed its first chief product officer, Harvinder (Harv) Bhela, who will look after most — but not all — of NetApp’s products.
Bhela starts in January 2022, and...
Storage news ticker – December 3
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An AWS blog contains a great summary of re:Invent 2021 announcements.
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Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS helps developers using Amazon Aurora databases to detect, diagnose, and resolve database performance issues...
Update adds four ways to make WekaIO slicker, smoother and safer
Superfast scale-out parallel file system supplier WekaIO has updated its software to better integrate flash, S3 object storage, cloud and on-premises file accesses in a single, slicker framework with...
Storage news ticker – December 1
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AWS has announced four new storage offerings:
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a storage class that provides retrieval access in milliseconds for archive data — now available as an access...
Komprise explains the mess: files, objects, silo sprawl and abstraction layers
As if in a dream, I thought: suppose we didn’t have file and object storage? Would we invent them? Now that we do have them, should they be united...
Street-beater NetApp’s fifth growth quarter in a row
NetApp had a knock-out second fiscal 2022 quarter, selling more flash arrays and object storage, and with a good pipeline for further sales. Its public cloud business is growing...
22dot6 adds extra cloudiness to its Valence software
All-singing, all-dancing TASS (Transcendent Abstracted Storage System) supplier 22dot6 has updated its Valence software — making it easier to set up and operate private, hybrid, and public cloud storage.
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NexuStorage says blocks and files can come from object storage
NexuStorage’s Nexfs software serves block and file data from an object-backing store using sub-file chunking to reduce data movement and help data tiering, and claims great tier-one storage cost...
Dell has record quarter, but flattish storage lets the side down
Dell’s quarterly revenues rose 21 per cent year-on-year to a record $28.4 billion, but storage revenues were anaemic with a mere 0.9 per cent rise to $3.89 billion.
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Fog busters! Data and storage category clarification
My mental data and storage classification landscape has been getting confused and briefings with suppliers made it obvious a refresh was needed.
Going back to the basic block-file-object data types...
Boom! DataCore arrives in Kubernetes storage space by buying MayaData
Block, file and object storage software supplier DataCore has bought MayaData and its Kubernetes storage business for an undisclosed sum. DataCore’s Caringo object storage software has notched up two...
Storage news ticker – November 17
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Commvault has appointed a new Area VP & GM of UK & Ireland: Stuart Abbott. It says he brings extensive experience to his new role, including leading both UK and Ireland...