Storage news roundup – May 22
Arctera is collaborating with Red Hat and its InfoScale cyber-resilience product is certified on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. … Hitachi Vantara recently suffered a malware attack and we asked: “In...
View ArticleHitachi Vantara primes partnership-driven AI push
Hitachi has worked to re-evaluate the fit of its Hitachi Vantara subsidiary to respond faster to the market’s adoption of AI and AI’s accelerating development, according to its Chief Technology...
View ArticleData catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme
Starfish helps companies tap the data value buried in their file systems Starfish Storage might not be a household name among enterprise storage practitioners, but in high performance computing...
View ArticleStorage News Roundup – June 2
The Cayman Islands could pitch itself as no-questions- asked repository for data as well as cash and assets, a government official has suggested. The British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea has...
View ArticleSnowflake digs out $250M to buy Crunchy to plug Postgres gap
Snowflake has hoovered up Crunchy Data, plugging what was an increasingly visible gap in the cloud data giant’s Postgres strategy. Snowflake had previously offered a PostGres connector to suck data...
View ArticleVDURA unwraps ScaleFlow to slash the flash
VDURA has launched a preview of its V-ScaleFlow data movement tech in the latest rev of its Data Platform, which it claims will reduce flash requirements by over 50 percent. The firm claimed...
View ArticleQuobyte publishes figures for MLPerf Storage benchmark that ‘tortures’...
Quobyte has trumpeted its first public stab at running at the MLPerf Storage benchmark across its eponymous parallel file system, claiming to have achieved a distinct edge on the critical 3D-Unet...
View ArticleQuantum swaps CEO after debt buyout and deepening losses
Jamie Lerner, the chairman, CEO, and president of tape and storage systems vendor Quantum, has resigned and been replaced by part-time board director Hugues Meyrath. Beleaguered Quantum took a big hit...
View ArticleQumulo rolls out Stratus for secure multi-tenant environments
Qumulo has introduced an architecture for multi-tenancy, Stratus, with each tenant getting its own virtually separate Qumulo environment isolated from the others by cryptography with per-tenant keys...
View ArticleSpectra Logic to archive Rubin Observatory’s 500 PB cosmic time-lapse
The first images have come from the Vera C. Rubin telescope in Chile showing an unprecedented view of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky and the start of a ten-year time-lapse movie of the changes to...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – June 23
Arctera, Wasabi Technologies, and distributor TD SYNNEX have launched a joint, channel-exclusive data protection offering. It combines Arctera Backup Exec with Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, available...
View ArticleDatadobi adds policy-driven workflows to StorageMAP
Datadobi is adding more automation to its StorageMAP product to help storage admins do more quicker. It says customers dealing with increasingly complex data landscapes need help to stay in control...
View ArticleVDURA takes aim at VAST, WEKA, DDN with AI-HPC storage reboot
VDURA CEO Ken Claffey believes that the company should be classed alongside DDN, VAST Data, and WEKA as an extreme high-performing and reliable data store for modern AI and traditional HPC workloads....
View ArticleStorage news ticker – June 30
Abstract Security announced LakeVilla, a new product aimed at offering customers a cloud-native cold storage facility built for long-term security telemetry retention that delivers compliance-ready,...
View ArticlePanzura adds ACL remediation to Symphony to combat permissions sprawl
Panzura has added Access Control List (ACL) analysis and automated remediation to the Symphony data management offering. Symphony software, positioned as a data services platform, discovers and manages...
View ArticleCerabyte promises fast, dense, low-cost tape alternative by 2030
Cerabyte says it could deliver a 100-plus PB archival storage rack with 2 GBps bandwidth and sub-10-second time to first byte by 2030. CMO and co-founder Martin Kunze presented the Cerabyte story to an...
View ArticleStorage news collection – July 3
Commvault announced a strategic partnership with Bytes, “a leading provider of IT solutions across the UK and Ireland. This partnership will focus on providing the joint customer base with the tools...
View ArticleQuantum and Chief Revenue Officer to part ways
Henk Jan Spanjaard, Quantum Corp’s Chief Revenue Officer, will be the latest exec to leave the company, according to an SEC filing by the beleaguered business. The 8-K, filed yesterday, states: “On...
View ArticleKomprise: Metadata is the key to smarter AI and data governance
Better unstructured data management is the reason Komprise was founded in 2014 by CEO Kumar Goswami along with president and COO Krishna Subramanian and CTO Michael Peercy. At that time, file...
View ArticleQuantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount
Beleaguered storage vendor Quantum, which replaced CEO and chairman Jamie Lerner in June and CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard earlier this month, has made “a very large reduction” in staff, according to a person...
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