More storage river pointers to Cloud and Flash growth
Scanning the turbulent river that’s the storage market we can see four waves criss-crossing it this week that point to the strength of the cloud storage, flash replacing disk,...
Google readies rapid-thawing, ice-cold archive. How much and when?
Google is prepping a deep cloud archive service to replace tape storage and says users can anticipate fast access. By contrast Amazon quotes up to retrieval time of up...
Google plants Anthos hybrid cloud with storage mulch
Google has launched its Anthos hybrid cloud with its Google Kubernetes Engine enabling application container movement between on-premises and the AWS, Azure and GCP clouds.
Google’s Cloud Services Platform has been...
Google Cloud serves up three-decker Backup-as-a-Service club sandwich
Actifio, Cohesity and HYCU have declared their support for Google Cloud Platform with backup-as-a-service versions of their software.
The three backup suppliers announced their services today at Google Cloud Next...
HPE teams up with Nutanix for GreenLake managed service
HPE has reversed its no partnership stance with Nutanix to work together on the GreenLake Nutanix managed service.
Let's roll the clock back to May 2017 when Nutanix made its...
No corners cut in our cheap hybrid storage box, Qumulo claims
Qumulo has launched an entry-level system that adds 80 per cent more capacity and 200 per cent faster read speed.
There has been a flurry of recent activity from the...
Veaam triumvirate takes charge – again
With the dust settling after Peter McKay’s October 2018 departure from being Veeam’s CEO how has the company changed and where is it going?
A conversation with Ratmir Timashev, co-founder...
Datrium out-guns VMAX, XtremIO and FlashArray all-flash boxes
Hyper- or hybrid converged system supplier Datrium’s DVX storage and compute system out-performs Dell EMC’s VMAX and XtremIO all-flash arrays as well as Pure Storage’s FlashArrays.
Datrium wants to be...
Google endorses Elastifile Cloud File Service for GCP
Google is endorsing Elastifile’s Cloud File Service service for its cloud, despite having its own Cloud Filestore service.
Cloud Filestore supports NFS v3 and comes in standard (up to 180MB/sec...
Pure Storage buys Compuverde (IBM’s Spectrum NAS software supplier)
Pure Storage has bought NAS software supplier Compuverde, best known for making the software behind IBM’s Spectrum NAS product.
Compuverde was founded in 2008 by Stefan Bernbo, CEO, system architect...
AWS debuts cheap and slow Glacier Deep Archive
Amazon Web Services has announced its Glacier Deep Archive is available at about $1/TB/month, the lowest data storage cost in the cloud.
AWS claims this is significantly cheaper than storing...
XenData uses Wasabi hot storage to deliver cheap cloud archive service
XenData has teamed up with Wasabi to offer a hybrid cloud archive service that charges only for the volume of data stored in the cloud.
The new Cloud File Storage...