Half the performance for half the price: NetApp’s new cut down StorageGRID load balancer
NetApp has launched a low-end StorageGRID appliance called the SG100 to cater for small deployments. The new system is a cut-down version of the load-balancing SG1000 and it delivers...
Lustre and S3 join Atempo’s Miria data moving party
Atempo has added support for Lustre and S3 in a major update for Miria, its enterprise data backup, archive and migration suite.
Update. Datadobi does work with Lustre. Comment added...
The next game changer? Amazon takes on the SAN vendors
Amazon has re-engineered the AWS EBS stack to enable on-premises levels of SAN performance in the cloud. Make no mistake, the cloud giant is training its big guns at...
NetApp’s high-end AFA sales lead it out of pandemic recession
NetApp has posted its second successive quarter of revenue growth, thanks to an unexpected boost in high-end all-flash storage array sales.
The company recorded $1.42bn in revenues for the second...
Pure Storage is glad to be as-a-service for you
Pure Storage has updated Pure-as-a-Service with service catalogs, transparent pricing, a cheaper entry price for block storage and a subscription version of the FlashStack reference architecture.
Pure products are available...
Look at S3 through a Storage Lens
Amazon has made it easier for customers to figure out how to reduce their S3 cloud object storage costs, with a new analytics dashboard.
AWS's S3 Storage Lens enables users...
Pavilion Data: Our unified storage array is the fastest in the universe
Pavilion Data, the high-end array vendor, has released a speedy parallel file system that brings it into direct competition with major HPC storage players for the first time.
The new...
Seek and ye shall find (unstructured data), with Quantum ATFS
Quantum has displayed the first fruits of its April 2020 acquisition of Atavium in April - a general file storage product called ATFS. The company has also updated...
Your occasional storage digest with MRAM, Commvault, Elbencho and more
Let's start with GPUDirect.
GPUDirect storage benchmark
Elbencho, a new open-source benchmark for blocks and files, is the first tool to support Nvidia's GPUDirect Storage (GDS). This gives people the possibility...
WekaIO plugs into Amazon S3 object storage
WekaIO is the latest vendor plugging the Amazon S3 API into its filesystem.
The idea is to combine fast file access through WekaFS parallel access to SSDs with a...
Your occasional storage digest with Toshiba drives, Excelero and more
There’s life in the mid-range capacity disk drive yet as Toshiba introduces a line of sub 10TB drives that don’t use sealed enclosures full of helium gas. Data protector...
It’s that time of year again: Gartner flings distributed files systems and objects...
It’s all change at Gartner’s distributed files systems and objects Magic Quadrant, with three suppliers leaving, one arriving, and major and minor movements across the board.
The leaders have all...