Your occasional storage digest, including Violin, Lenovo and more
It' s time to listen to some Violin practice and find out about Lenovo file tiering plus a host of news snippets from the storage industry. Read on.
Violin Systems...
Dell EMC loses vision but still leads 2019 files and object Magic Quadrant
Gartner has published the 2019 Magic Quadrant for distributed files and object storage, which places Dell EMC, IBM, Scality and Qumulo in the leaders’ box.
Here is the...
Dell EMC’s ECS object store gains mid-range companion
Dell EMC has announced a mid-range ECS object store plus additional security software features to suit US DoD needs.
Effectively it has added higher-capacity drives to the entry-level chassis to create...
Your occasional storage digest, including Dell, IDC on HCI, Intel Optane, Nebulon and more
There are several news items about Intel Optane in this week’s roundup, as Intel’s Optane software ecosystem building efforts pick up. But Cloudera, first.
Cloudera’s cloud data warehouse
Cloudera is now...
Hammerspace builds ransomware bunker in universal data services extension
Hammerspace has introduced ransomware protection and other security services to its data-as-a-service platform.
The new features span hybrid and multi-cloud environments and are as follows:
Global undelete for files and snapshots...
Western Digital exits data centre systems – sells IntelliFlash to DDN, puts ActiveScale...
Western Digital is abandoning the storage systems business and is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN. It has also put its ActiveScale archival storage array business up...
Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs
Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies’s vice chairman and overall product and operations boss, has stepped away from day-to-day control of the server-to-storage-to-networking-to-protection ISG Group. He passes the baton to EMC...
Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting to merge
Hitachi is merging the Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting businesses under the Hitachi Vantara brand, with effect from January 2020.
Hitachi Vantara supplies VSP storage array, servers and business analytics...
Cloudian gets edgy with IT
Cloudian is building ruggedised object storage devices for the IoT edge market in Japan via its EDGEMATRIX subsidiary.
The idea edge device sensors such as video cameras generate enormous data....
NetApp to speed object data with all-flash StorageGRID appliance – sources
NetApp will launch an all-flash StorageGRID object storage system in coming weeks, according to industry insiders.
Object storage holds unstructured data that can scale out beyond traditional file systems but...
Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Qumulo, Seagate, StorageCraft and more
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Qumulo updates software
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo has streamed out a set of software updates over the past quarter:
Alternate Data Streams - Increase data access across both...
IBM touts super-fast storage array for z15 mainframe
IBM launched its latest z15 mainframe today and gave it a new high-end all-flash array to play with. This is the DS8900F and it holds more data with...