WANdisco takes the replicant test to the multi-cloud
WANdisco this week made LiveData for MultiCloud available for public consumption.
The idea is simple, namely to store one replicated copy of data in multiple clouds so that you have an...
Benchmarks! IBM deploys memcaching with flash and 3D XPoint to match DRAM
Implementing Memcache with NAND or 3D XPoint produces near-DRAM cache performance at a much lower cost, IBM claims.
Memcache is an open source distributed memory system launched in 2003. These...
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
An amassment of storage predictions and announcements
We have four sets of predictions for 2019, followed by 11 brief news items, two customer notes and a CEO promotion at Datto.
Three Archive360 predictions
Archive360 archives data up to...
Amazon buys replicating CloudEndure for AWS
Amazon is buying CloudEndure, an Israeli startup which supplies replication-based, multi-cloud business continuity, migration and disaster recovery services.
CloudEndure was setup in 2012 in Tel Aviv and is now headquartered in...
Unlucky for some: Chris Mellor’s 13 predictions for storage tech in 2019
Here are my personal predictions for IT this year and how they will affect enterprise storage.
Multi-cloud adoption will (a) encourage enterprises to adopt fewer infrastructure component suppliers and (b)...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Exagrid, WANdisco and WekaIO
Early January storage roundup news shows speed has paid off for deduplicating backupper ExaGrid and WANdisco and WekaIO. One W-vendor sends lots of data across networks at high speed....
IBM OEMs Actifio to create virtual data pipelines
IBM is OEM’ing Actifio’s Virtual Data Pipeline technology to supply production data copies to downstream users for faster application development and analytics.
IBM has confirmed the agreement with us and...
Iguazio builds Google-like Outpost for IoT retail edge
Unlike Amazon's Outpost and Azure Stack, Google has no public cloud on-premises presence. Iguazio says it can provide one for Google customers.
The Israeli start-up claims superstores with multi-branch retail...
Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap
Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
Ritek’s optical delusion baffles Blocks & Files
Optical disk demand will sky-rocket in 2020 as cloud computing centres come to realise optical disk archives are cheaper and last longer than tape or disk archives. So says...
Seagate says tape to cloud pricing is ‘confidential’
Seagate’s Lyve Data Services will use per-customer, tape-to-cloud project pricing in its data migration centres but commercial details are opaque.
The company last week announced Lyve Data Services (LDS) in conjunction...