Your occasional storage digest featuring Exagrid, WANdisco and WekaIO
Early January storage roundup news shows speed has paid off for deduplicating backupper ExaGrid and WANdisco and WekaIO. One W-vendor sends lots of data across networks at high speed....
IBM OEMs Actifio to create virtual data pipelines
IBM is OEM’ing Actifio’s Virtual Data Pipeline technology to supply production data copies to downstream users for faster application development and analytics.
IBM has confirmed the agreement with us and...
Iguazio builds Google-like Outpost for IoT retail edge
Unlike Amazon's Outpost and Azure Stack, Google has no public cloud on-premises presence. Iguazio says it can provide one for Google customers.
The Israeli start-up claims superstores with multi-branch retail...
Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap
Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
Ritek’s optical delusion baffles Blocks & Files
Optical disk demand will sky-rocket in 2020 as cloud computing centres come to realise optical disk archives are cheaper and last longer than tape or disk archives. So says...
Seagate says tape to cloud pricing is ‘confidential’
Seagate’s Lyve Data Services will use per-customer, tape-to-cloud project pricing in its data migration centres but commercial details are opaque.
The company last week announced Lyve Data Services (LDS) in conjunction...
Seagate declares war on tape
Seagate wants to take data stored on tape and migrate it to the cloud for faster access. Its Lyve Data Services use Tape Ark software and technology as a...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
NetApp declares multi-cloud love for Azure, GCP and Salesforce
NetApp is bulking out its public cloud offering with three new services for Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Salesforce.
The company aims to deliver a single, consistent IT environment in...
Delphix fixes AWS RDS data copy inertia and friction
Delphix virtualizes Amazon’s Relational Database Service in new ways beyond logical replication, and farms out test and dev copies in minutes.
Delphix virtualizes on-premises production databases, such as Oracle and...
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Cohesity goes up the Amazon
Cohesity, a converger of...