IBM puts on its Red Hat and bags some more storage software
IBM closed its massive $34bn Red Hat acquisition yesterday. The Red Hat portfolio includes five open source storage software products. Let's take a closer look.
For starters, there is...
And now we are 10. Scality RINGs the changes
At a press briefing yesterday to mark the company's tenth birthday, Scality co-founder and CEO Jérôme Lecat talked about competition, its roadmap, and a new version of its RING...
StorONE’s Seagate SSD demo is fast for a virtual appliance
Startup StorONE claims record performance from its TRU S1 storage software running in a virtual appliance with 24 Seagate SSDs.
Is software ran more than three times faster last...
Cloudian pushes Xtreme performance with Seagate backing
Cloudian has increased HyperStore storage capacity by 80 per cent, courtesy of a strategic deal with Seagate.
The object storage software company today launched Xtreme, the third member of the...
HPE’s Primera is Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
HPE's newly-launched Primera array is a performance beast - and that’s before it gets NVMe over Fabrics and storage class memory.
HPE staffers told Blocks & Files in a product...
DDN adds software-defined data services
Interview DDN bought software-defined storage player Nexenta this month. We conducted a short email interview with Kurt Kuckein, DDN senior director, to find out more.
Blocks & Files: Will Tarkan...
IBM tackles ‘NAS limitations’ with Panzura software
IBM is to resell Panzura’s Freedom Cloud NAS together with IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), as a subscription license.
In a blog discussing the announcement yesterday, IBM WW...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Violin, NEC, Scale Computing, Formulus Black and Hitachi Vantara
Today's storage briefs include Violin arrays adopting NVMe, NEC using Scale Computing to build a hyperconverged offering, Formulus Black getting its software added to HPE servers but not by...
Pure Storage moves Evergreen subscriptions around the blocks
Pure Storage is rounding out its Evergreen Storage Service with movable block capacity and a backup offering. It is developing a block storage offering on AWS and has released...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Huawei, InfiniteIO, Seagate, Spectrum Scale, StorONE and Tintri
Today is the opening day of the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas with wall-to-wall-and-back-again announcements. Before we dive in and get ‘Dell-ified’ here are a set of...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Azure, Pure Storage, Datrium, Hitachi Vantura and more
Today has been a blockbuster blizzard for enterprise storage news. Blocks & Files will guide you through the day's events with this handy round-up. Let's start with Microsoft.
Azure moves...
Your Easter enterprise storage getaway
We have picked out four themes for you in our Easter enterprise storage roundup: flash arrays are taking over from disk arrays; backup to the cloud is booming,...