IBM storage hardware revenues fall in latest quarter
IBM storage hardware revenues fell substantially in its second 2019 quarter - but new high-end storage is coming later this year.
Overall Big Blue’s revenues of $19.2bn were dragged 4.2...
Big US business thinks object storage is big business
More US enterprises intend to buy object storage than unified file/block, SAN and NAS. Almost half are increasing cloud storage and a quarter are bulking upon-premises storage capacity.
This is...
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...
And now we are 10. Scality RINGs the changes
At a press briefing yesterday to mark the company's tenth birthday, Scality co-founder and CEO Jérôme Lecat talked about competition, its roadmap, and a new version of its RING...
StorONE’s Seagate SSD demo is fast for a virtual appliance
Startup StorONE claims record performance from its TRU S1 storage software running in a virtual appliance with 24 Seagate SSDs.
Is software ran more than three times faster last...
Cloudian pushes Xtreme performance with Seagate backing
Cloudian has increased HyperStore storage capacity by 80 per cent, courtesy of a strategic deal with Seagate.
The object storage software company today launched Xtreme, the third member of the...
HPE’s Primera is Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
HPE's newly-launched Primera array is a performance beast - and that’s before it gets NVMe over Fabrics and storage class memory.
HPE staffers told Blocks & Files in a product...
DDN adds software-defined data services
Interview DDN bought software-defined storage player Nexenta this month. We conducted a short email interview with Kurt Kuckein, DDN senior director, to find out more.
Blocks & Files: Will Tarkan...
IBM tackles ‘NAS limitations’ with Panzura software
IBM is to resell Panzura’s Freedom Cloud NAS together with IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), as a subscription license.
In a blog discussing the announcement yesterday, IBM WW...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Violin, NEC, Scale Computing, Formulus Black and Hitachi Vantara
Today's storage briefs include Violin arrays adopting NVMe, NEC using Scale Computing to build a hyperconverged offering, Formulus Black getting its software added to HPE servers but not by...
Pure Storage moves Evergreen subscriptions around the blocks
Pure Storage is rounding out its Evergreen Storage Service with movable block capacity and a backup offering. It is developing a block storage offering on AWS and has released...