Full speed ahead — VMware adds support for NVMe/TCP and Optane persistent memory snapshots
VMware has updated vSphere and vSAN to provide faster storage networking, better Optane support, more cloud-native features, simplified operations and better vSAN resilience and security in an Update 3...
Pure scales out with availability zones, automated and active storage management, and database deployment
Pure Storage has added greatly increased scale-out for its arrays with clusters in availability zones, and added cloud-like storage resource consumption and management, as well as automated database deployment services for containerised apps.
Your occasional storage digest with Elastic, MemVerge, an amazing funding round, and more
There’s a strong focus on data querying and analysis in this week’s digest. Data querying has been improved by Elastic enhancing its search products. A US research institute is...
Feel the AWS Kubernetes love — Dell EMC adds EKS Anywhere to VxRail using...
Dell EMC has worked with VMware and AWS to add EKS Anywhere to its hyperconverged VxRail systems, with storage needs fulfilled by either vSAN or PowerStore external arrays.
EKS (Elastic...
MayaData: another Kubernetes storage startup changes CEO
Open source Kubernetes-focused startup MayaData has undergone a CEO change as — this is almost laughable — the Chief Transformation Officer transforms the CEO who hired him out of...
Contain yourselves: new Diamanti CEO faces exec hiring opportunity
Executing a hyperconverged software to hyperconverged Kubernetes software pivot, startup Diamanti has changed its CEO — with a raft of consequent exec changes following the hiring.
Update: two more exec...
Pure Storage tantalises with reinvention possibilities
Pure Storage has flagged a major announcement on September 28th. A financial analysts’ briefing is scheduled to follow the announcement, suggesting news that will affect investors’ views of Pure’s...
HPE reorganising GreenLake exec team
Kumar Sreekanti, HPE’s CTO, head of software, and SVP, is retiring as HPE implements a GreenLake cloud services development scheme and team. There will be a new CTO appointed...
Looking through the Veeam lens: hybrid IT arrives, containers and SaaS app protection needed
A snapshot of the IT environment provided by a Veeam survey shows that hybrid IT has become reality, cloud disaster recovery is difficult and a minority interest, and Office...
Weekly digest of storage news featuring IBM, Dell, Box, Toshiba, NVIDIA and Kioxia plus...
The themes this week are containers, flash, flash arrays, enterprise file-based collaboration and disk drives. Everything seems to be selling more, growing more, shipping more, developing more — except...
Contain yourselves — Nutanix and Red Hat enjoy a warm embrace
Nutanix and IBM-owned Red Hat are working together with cross-certification of products in a partnership that will strengthen their ability to compete with VMware.
The context is the rise of...
Ionir exec chairman grips cloud-native company tighter, takes on CEO spot
Less than a year after emerging from stealth, Kubernetes data-moving startup Ionir has a new CEO.
Ionir was created from the ashes of Reduxio and uses the latter’s Magellan data...