Dell EMC wears hyperconverged clothes in multi-cloud race
Parent Dell Technologies has child Dell EMC singing off a multi-cloud and hyperconverged songsheet at sibling VMware’s Glitter Gulch VMworld event. The two main product families featured are the Data...
View ArticleScality rocks out Zenko, its multi-cloud data controller
Interview: Scality has made Zenko, its multi-cloud data controller, generally available. Zenko v1.0 is a cloud-native product, available in both open source and enterprise editions. What does it do?...
View ArticleSnowflake is backed to the tune of $923m. Why are VCs investing so heavily?
Snowflake Computing has taken in $450m in a second 2018 funding round to advance its data warehouse in the cloud business. Total funding now stands at $923m. I interviewed CEO Bob Muglia in my news...
View ArticleKomprise customers granted more cold data storage options
Komprise, the purveyor of file lifecycle management software, has increased the number of cold storage destinations for ageing files and added NetApp Cloud Volumes support. Komprise Intelligent Data...
View ArticleDruva adds backup to AWS Snowball Edge data transfer appliance
Druva has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to offer its data protection software on AWS Snowball Edge appliances. Snowball Edge is AWS’s dedicated server designed for on-premises use cases. Think of...
View ArticleYour occasional storage digest featuring AWS, Delphix, Druva and NVM Express
Nibs, niblets, nibbles; brief news items to start the week and give you an appetite for five days of full-tilt action. Let’s see what we have from AWS, Delphix, Druva, and NVM Express. AWS: there’s not...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleTrust the public cloud Big Three to make non-volatile storage volatile
AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure’s – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when the VMs are killed. NVMe-connected...
View Article‘DR’ in Druva stands for Disaster Recovery
Druva has added Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service based on the AWS public cloud. This means customers can avoid the expense of a second DR site or subscribe to DR facilities for the first time. Druva...
View ArticleAWS 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 and...
View ArticleChaosSearch makes AWS S3 data searchable
Freshly-minted startup ChaosSearch has devised a way to analyse, index and search log data in the S3 part of Amazon’s cloud. It calls itself CHAOSSEARCH but this all-caps shrieking is painful to read...
View ArticleNutanix ushers its software onto AWS
.NEXT 2019 Nutanix is moving into the hybrid cloud world in a big way by making its software available on AWS. Customers can launch Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS within their AWS environment via Xi...
View ArticleYour occasional storage digest, featuring AWS, hard drive sales, Red Hat and...
Start your week with some tasty storage snacks, including Amazon offering high-performance computing in its cloud, preliminary IDC disk drive ships for the second quarter, and Red Hat support for...
View ArticleAmazon buys NVMe startup E8
Amazon is buying the NVMe-over-Fabrics startup E8 Storage for $50m-$60m. The news is reported in the Israeli Globes IT news website and the acquisition price is an estimate. E8 was founded in 2014 by...
View ArticleAWS makes it easier to build and populate data lakes
Amazon has gone live with AWS Lake Formation, a service that can cut data lake set-up from months to days. Data Lakes are large scale collections of data which are used for analysis runs to discover...
View ArticleDruva automates backup push into AWS storage tiers for greatest cost savings
Druva has devised a way of automatically slotting backup data into the appropriate AWS storage layer, a service that it claims, reduces total cost of ownership by up to 50 per cent. Warm data can be...
View ArticleVeritas plays nicely with VMware in the cloud
Data protection stalwart Veritas has ported the Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP) for VMware onto the AWS, Azure and Google clouds. For data protection vendors, the capability to backup to and...
View ArticleNasuni bolsters Cloud File Services with analytics support, migration tools
Nasuni has issued a major release of Cloud File Services, adding an analytics connector, migrators for AWS and Azure, plus support for Google Cloud Platform, NetApp StorageGRID and Nutanix Objects. In...
View ArticleDatrium offers instant vSphere recovery in AWS
Datrium has upgraded its DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering, claiming to provide the industry’s first instant restarts from backup data stored in Amazon’s S3 store. It’s also extended its DRaaS to offer...
View ArticleDruva sinks deeper backup hooks into AWS
Druva is improving its backup capabilities with AWS to offer a broader spread of data protection and archiving options. In a briefing with Blocks & Files, Druva’s chief technical evangelist, W....
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