How to get a self-castrated bull: Dave Hitz retires from NetApp
It’s the end of an era; NetApp co-founder and EVP Dave Hitz is retiring.
The news came in a blog and signals the end of a near 27-year remarkable career...
Dell EMC adds compression to Isilon all-flash filer
Dell EMC’s Isilon group has added compression to the F810 all-flash filer, guaranteeing logical capacity at twice raw capacity.
There is also ClarityNow software to locate, access and manage data...
WekaIO hits the SPEC SFS 2014 ball out of the park
WekaIO has made a clean sweep of all five SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark categories.
SPEC SFS 2014 is a file serving benchmark with five different workloads: software builds, video streaming...
A dash of storage confetti to spray over Sunday and Monday
Here’s another great big batch of storage news items, two dozen or so of them, to give you a flavour of what’s going on apart from the headline items.
Delphix...
Who are the Blocks & Filers?
Most Blocks & Files readers live in the USA and half read content on cell phones.
Three months after the site formally opened an analysis of its readership shows 45...
Attention! Qumulo adds Atempo file migration data mover
Here's something to move you; scale-out file storage supplier Qumulo has launched a data migration service.
Qumulo says file estate migration can be labour-intensive, and require software and hardware rarely...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...
WekaIO goes higher than Summit
Well, well; remember back in November when WekaIO, with its Matrix filesystem, took second place in IO-500 10 Node Challenge, with the Summit supercomputer taking first place?
About turn, because...
Hyperconverged infrastructure heads closer to the edge
Interview: Get hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product development and marketing wrong and your business becomes a turkey. Witness Maxta, which crashed into the buffers this week, as an example of when...
Cohesity throws kitchen sink at ransomware
Cohesity hopes the latest version of Cohesity DataPlatform (CDP) will help to transform ransomware attacks from a devastating existential threat to a manageable nuisance.
The software update, v6.1.1, adds ransomware-resistant backups, detection...
A brief walk through filer software in the AWS, Azure and Google clouds
Updated April 2019. Filer software is becoming multi-cloud, with 12 cloud filer suppliers overall and several now supporting more than one public cloud. But they all have a way...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Excelero, Commvault, SUSE Linux, MariaDB… and more!
Here's a carton of storage news brought to you by the virtual drone delivery service at Blocks & Files.
Customers
PAIGE, a well-funded US start up that uses AI to tackle...