Storage news ticker – October 9
Data protector Arcserve has hooked up with Wasabi Technologies to introduce an integrated total unified data solution package. Exclusively available through Climb Distribution, it combines Arcserve’s Unified Data Protection...
Public cloud ephemeral storage can’t be persistent – right?
Four block storage suppliers use public cloud ephemeral storage drive instances. So can they be persistent despite being ephemeral?
Yes and no. Let's take the three public clouds one by one...
Blockheads note: Dell refreshes PowerFlex and intros APEX Block Storage for Azure
Dell has updated its PowerFlex block storage offering and introduced APEX Block Storage for Azure, so providing three APEX block storage environments: on-premises, in AWS, and now in Microsoft's...
Ephemeral cloud, decentralized solutions, and the future of block storage
Chris Evans is the consultant and analyst behind Architecting IT. He has a reputation for shrewd and insightful analysis of storage technologies and suppliers. We thought we'd take advantage...
Storage news ticker – 29 Sep 2023
Backblaze, which uses SSDs as boot drives for its disk-based storage servers, has produced its latest SSD annualized failure rate (AFR) report. Restricting its stats to drives with more...
Dell APEX Cloud Platform comes to Azure Stack HCI
Dell has launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Azure, first announced at Dell World in May, helping to provide a consistent Azure cloud environment across edge, branch, and central...
Lightbits switches on block storage in Azure Marketplace
As promised in June, the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform has been made available in the Azure Marketplace as a managed application.
Lightbits software uses public cloud ephemeral storage instances to...
Gartner primary storage MQ shows consistency at the top
The Gartner primary storage magic quadrant has consolidated with eight Leaders – the same as last year – just one Challenger and one Niche player as three suppliers leave...
Infinidat adds AFA inside hybrid InfiniBox
Infinidat has doubled its all-flash SSA II array's capacity, added entry-level models that can scale up, and enabled the SSD cache in its hybrid flash/disk InfiniBox array to function...
William Blair downgrades NetApp, but storage firm remains ‘confident’
NetApp has been downgraded by a financial analyst for what it claimed was underpar cloud business growth and falling on-prem storage product sales.
The company sells ONTAP file and block...
European server and storage sales through the channel plummet
Growing business caution has hit European server and storage sales, according to analysts, leaving the industry in negative growth territory.
Analyst house Context has revised down its overall 2023 forecast...
Storage news ticker – September 7
Airbyte has announced an integration with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. It gives customers the ability to monitor and analyze data pipelines with reporting of...