Scale up or scale out? What’s up with separate, clustered and federated storage
Computer systems tend to grow after they are first installed. They need more capacity and / or more performance. They expand by scaling up or scaling out.
Scale-up versus scale-out
Scaling...
HPE lets Komprise join its gang
Komprise has joined the HPE Complete programme - which means HPE can resell its data management software along with HPE storage arrays.
A 13-page Komprise-HPE Reference Architecture document tells...
Druva buys in cloud storage gateway
Druva has added a cloud storage gateway to its AWS-based platform for data protection and management.
The data protection firm acquired the technology through the acquisition this month of Cloudlanes....
Commvault improves reseller terms
Commvault is paying its distributors and resellers a lot more money to sell its storage products.
The changes to the Commvault Partner Advantage programme represent "the simplest, most transparent...
Your summer storage picnic
We have spread out a tasty array of storage summer dishes on our white linen cloth. Take a deck chair and feast your eyes on Attala's smart NIC nuts,...
You need access to those big data silos – fast? No problem, says Alluxio
Alluxio has added a bunch of improvements to its open source software, described by the company as a "data orchestration system for analytics and machine learning in the...
IBM improves file cataloguing, object storage, protects databases in the cloud
IBM has updated Spectrum Discover, object storage and Spectrum Protect Plus products and added the FlashSystem 9100 array to its VersaStack converged infrastructure.
The company made the announcement in a...
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...
Buy, buy or bye-bye? MapR misses deadline to lifeline
MapR, the struggling Hadoop data analytics firm, has missed its July 3 deadline to sell out or shut up shop. Today is Independence Day, July 4, so...
Druva dives into VC money trough to surface with $130m and unicorn status
Data protection as a service startup Druva has trousered $130m in a G-round of VC funding.
Druva backs up its data protection with data management, archival services and analytics and...
HPE scales out 3PAR to build massively parallel Primera line
HPE’s Primera array, launched today, is an evolutionary upgrade of its 3PAR platform, with expanded InfoSight management and claimed Nimble array ease-of-use.
Our sister publication The Register carries the announcement...
Oracle uses machine learning to boost Exadata X8 performance
Oracle has pushed out Exadata X8, the latest iteration of its engineered system optimised for the Oracle database.
The launch marks the tenth anniversary of the Exadata platform.
Unveiled today, the...