Irish university buys StorONE array from recycled hardware supplier
Who knew you can build a storage array using recycled hardware? Apparently the University of Limerick has bought one from Wisetek with previously-used hardware and StorONE software.
Cork-based Wisetek built...
Quantum turns the revenue corner as it develops cold Storage-as-a-Service
Quantum grew first quarter fiscal 2022 revenues 22 per cent year-on-year with a high hyperscale customer order rate and a growing backlog due to supply constraints. It is bringing...
MinIO: the smartphone camera of object storage
MinIO wants to be the smartphone camera of object storage — in that millions of smartphone cameras destroyed the traditional camera industry.
Consumers have largely stopped buying cameras because...
Your occasional storage digest with Ahana, Egnyte, FalconStor and Netlist, Varada and a tad...
A data lake analytics startup springs on to the stage with a fast funding round following its founding (nice alliteration — Ed). Ransomware attackers love architecture, engineering and construction...
Lenovo unveils new NetApp entry-level all-flash arrays
Lenovo has announced two entry-level all-flash arrays, one with NVMe drives and the other SAS, with a sub-$15,000 starting price.
Update: 6 Aug 20321. Justification for Lenovo first to market...
Datadobi develops faster, better migration engine
File and object data migrator Datadobi has updated the underlying software engine used by its DobiMigrate and DobiProtect products, making it faster and more reliable.
DobiMigrate moves file and object...
Pliops XDP hits the streets to rescue X86 servers from data-handling overload
Israel-based startup Pliops has unveiled its Extreme Data Processor (XDP) storage processor product to offload server X86 CPUs and accelerate data-intensive apps with better-designed processor resources.
Pliops — pronounced Ply-Ops...
Coldago survey: users love cloud, cloud-native and flash arrays; secondary storage surprises
An end-user survey by research firm Coldago finds users highly positive about the public cloud, cloud-native development, and all-flash arrays, with some surprising vendor rankings concerning Infinidat, VAST Data...
Model9 massacres Stone Age mainframe VTL
Sometimes you get reminded how decidedly old tech some tech is, and Model9’s ability to move data destined for long-term storage at 550MB/sec versus a mainframe Virtual Tape Library...
Your occasional storage digest with AWS HealthLake, Delphix, Infrascale, XenData and much more
This week we have AWS doing a neat health sector vertical market data lake offering with partners, Delphix bragging about its growth and diversity hiring credentials, and Infrascale offering...
Cloudian’s ransomware report surprisingly recommends organisations buy Cloudian products
Object storage supplier Cloudian has issued a commissioned ransomware report saying more ransomware attacks are happening and potential victims should buy quick data recovery systems – like Cloudian’s Object...
Profile: Flexify.IO puts multiple cloud storage providers into single bucket
Flexify.IO provides cloud storage virtualisation and migration software that offers customers cloud-agnostic object-based data storage. It enables and simplifies migration, and avoids dependency on a single cloud storage provider....