Your occasional enterprise storage digest featuring CTERA, Nutanix, OpenIO, StorONE and Veritas
This week's digest covers file-sharing, flash, hyperconverged infrastructure, all-in-one storage, object storage, data protection and supplier responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dive straight in with Nutanix.
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VAST Data scores $100m and transforms into a data storage unicorn
VAST Data has completed a $100m funding round during the covid-19 pandemic which values the all-flash array storage startup at $1.2bn.
The company will spend the new money on...
Cohesity pumps out ransomware alerts 24×7 via Helios smartphone app
Cohesity has developed a smartphone app for its Helios management software, to better enable admin staff to respond to external threats in real time.
For instance, the manager of a...
Infinidat: Our speedy storage arrays do not run any faster with Optane
Infinidat has no immediate plans to add Optane support because its memory-caching technology is already faster than Intel’s 3D XPoint.
In a press briefing today, Yair Cohen, VP of product...
Pavilion Data unfurls NVMe-oF array roadmap
Pavilion Data is developing a NVMe-oF flash array that is double the speed and capacity of its current line-up. The storage vendor also plans to release several software enhancements...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more
Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically.
Commvault upgrades for cloud and simpler data...
Komprise KEDM migrates file data ‘6 times faster than the status quo – and...
Komprise today released a file migration utility incorporating parallelisation, which runs 27 times faster than Linux Rsync, according to its internal benchmarks.
Komprise Elastic Data Management (KEDM) takes file data...
NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage
NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies.
Coldago, a small data storage research firm, surveyed...
Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate
Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming, web conferencing...
SoftIron, the Ceph storage startup, raises $34m
SoftIron, the UK developer of Ceph storage hardware and software, has raised $34m in venture capital.
Some of the cash will be used to grow sales, product marketing, and support...
Nutanix Objects 2.0 sinks hooks deeper into Splunk for some big data loving
Nutanix has enlarged the capacity of its object store, deepened Splunk integration and improved inviolable archiving to give users more control of the unstructured data fire hose.
The company's aims...
Red Hat speeds and scales Ceph object storage
Red Hat has made Ceph faster, scale out to a billion-plus objects, and added more automation for admins.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 provides a 2x acceleration of write-intensive object storage...