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...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Crossbar, CTERA, Snowflake and Pavilion Data
Some bits and bobs for your perusal. Let's go.
Short items
ReRAM developer Crossbar Inc. is setting up a consortium of AI technology providers that are developing hardware and software products...
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...
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...
Arcserve goes head-on against Commvault, Rubrik, Unitrends and Veritas
Watch out Commvault, Rubrik, Unitrends and Veritas; Arcserve is coming right at you.
It has updated its UDP appliance with 9000 series models that integrate backup, disaster recovery and backend...
Seven Pillars of IBM Storage wisdom
You would think IBM was a storage chemist; there are that many IBM Storage Solutions floating around. And now we have three more with another four point storage product...
Look to the visible Horizon and witness the future of HDD vs SSD
Disk drive capacity shipped and NVMe SSD sales will both boom over the next few years because more data needs to be stored and accessed faster when processed.
So says...
Pliops gets funding to build GPU-like Storage Processing Unit
Pliops has secured a $30m investment to bring its Storage Processing Unit into production and is targeting a launch in mid-2019.
The Israeli company aims to accelerate storage stack processing...
Your occasional Storage Digest, featuring Asigra, Coraid, Fujitsu, BackBlaze, Toshiba and…
Asigra, Coraid, Gartner and Toshiba supply a clutch of storage news to start the week, with better backup pricing, block and mobile phone storage and a supplier-ranking look at...
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...
Nutanix, Pure, VMware are booming. Other enterprise IT vendors? Not so much
Cisco is discounting its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure product, Commvault is under competitive pressure, Microsoft AzureStack lacks traction, and NetApp is replacing IBM storage arrays, while Nutanix, Pure and VMware...