HPE heralds move to speedier SANS with faster Fibre Channel
HPE has introduced built-in telemetry and self-healing SAN features in the seventh generation of B-series Fibre Channel SAN directors, switches and HBAs. It has also doubled their speed.
Announcing the...
Silk seals block storage co-selling deal with Azure
Microsoft has signed a co-selling agreement with Silk, the company formerly called Kaminario, which says this is the first such block storage deal in the Azure cloud.
Part of the...
Relational database is ‘biggest on-prem hunting ground’ for cloud giants
Interview: Chris Buckel is the VP for biz dev at Silk, a data storage startup based in Massachusetts that used to be called Kaminario. In a recent article, ...
This week in storage with HPE, Qumulo, and another K8s data protection startup
This week, HPE announced it has sold a neat Qumulo system on its Apollo server for image processing, and Replix emerged from stealth as a containerised app data protector....
DataCore snaps up Caringo for object storage
Datacore has bought the object storage supplier Caringo for an undisclosed amount and will now offer software-defined block, file and object storage.
Caringo customers include BT Television, Department of...
Pavilion Data takes pole position in GPUDirect race
Pavilion Data, the high-end storage array maker, sends data to an Nvidia DGX-A100 GPU server faster than DDN, VAST Data and WekaIO, according to a Nvidia-validated test result.
Developed by...
Twitter consumes DriveScale, gain weight in persistent block storage
Composable infrastructure startup DriveScale and its team have been absorbed into Twitter.
Nick Tornow, a platform lead at Twitter, tweeted: “DriveScale’s extremely experienced team will bring deep knowledge of storage...
Infinidat picks Western Digital exec to be its new CEO
Infinidat, the enterprise large array supplier, has appointed a new CEO and CFO, replacing its co-CEO structure and completing the leadership transition from founder Moshe Yanai's era.
The new CEO...
There can be only one? Infinidat co-CEO departs the scene
Infinidat co-CEO Kariel Sadler left the company without fanfare last month. His departure may pave the way for the appointment of a sole CEO.
Eran Brown, Infinidat's EMEA and APAC...
What does AWS Outposts mean for on-premises storage vendors?
Amazon late last year launched AWS Outposts, a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, including server, storage, networking, and AWS cloud software services. The appliance is...
IDC finds another way to count HCI revenues – and Nutanix comes out of...
IDC has devised yet another way to classify HCI revenues, this time by counting sales of the software running the heterogeneous storage controller that supplies block, file and...
DDN reveals VMstore and Intelliflash updates for 2021
High performance computing and enterprise needs are converging, according to DDN, which is developing technology in response.
In a press briefing this week, the HPC storage veteran gave us a...