Storage architecture and strategy

How blockchain storage could benefit the enterprise

Whether your organization is a potential buyer or seller of blockchain data storage, the technology could change how you look at storage. Discover where blockchain is headed. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation

Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

data deduplication

Data deduplication is a process that eliminates redundant copies of data and reduces storage overhead. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz
• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor

Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage

German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019

Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

NetApp founder Dave Hitz steps away after 26 years

Retiring founder of NetApp Dave Hitz says the vendor is well-positioned for industrywide storage transitions, but recent sales results show challenges remain. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Top 5 enterprise storage trends of 2018

Dave Raffo won't pretend to know what 2019 will bring to the world of enterprise data storage, but he does know what he learned while following the data storage industry in 2018. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Top 5 enterprise storage trends of 2018

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Cloudian HyperStore 7

New multi-cloud capabilities vault object storage specialist Cloudian to first place with its HyperStore product. Judges were particularly impressed with its functionality. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Portworx PX-Enterprise

PX-Enterprise, which helps users deploy persistent storage with containerized applications, stood out among other competitors for its innovation and value. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Quobyte Data Center File System 2.0

Startup Quobyte's 'up-and-comer' distributed parallel file system caught judges' attention as being easier to deploy, operate and manage in high-performance environments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Data storage startups to watch in 2019

Failure is a more likely outcome than success for a storage startup. Still, intrepid newcomers offer innovative technologies in cloud, backup, convergence and flash. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal

Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics

Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Advantages of object storage and how it differs from alternatives

File and block storage might provide better performance, but granular metadata and near-infinite scalability make object storage equally beneficial. Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

DataCore storage gets Kubernetes and Docker plugins

New DataCore plugins for Kubernetes and Docker will help customers developing container-based applications and microservices to access its software-defined storage products. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Storage Migration Service eases Windows Server transfers

See how SMS eases the process of migrating Windows servers, simplifying the administrator's job and minimizing the disruptions to users and applications. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment

One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs

Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cloud and software-defined storage products: 2018 POY finalists

Multi-cloud data management and container support are themes among the 2018 software-defined and cloud storage finalists of TechTarget's Storage Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Storage systems and management tools: 2018 POY finalists

Storage management tools candidates for the 2018 Storage Products of the Year competition skew heavily toward simpler interfaces and greater access to real-time data. Continue Reading

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• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

6 steps to how blockchain storage works

See how blockchain technology has the potential to provide a secure and reliable enterprise data storage environment with our step-by-step guide to blockchain data storage. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

2018 M&A in storage centered on flash, cloud and backup

No billion-dollar blockbusters in 2018 storage M&A activity as vendors stayed away from big deals and concentrated on filling gaps in their flash, cloud and backup portfolios. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell’s VMware, Nutanix duke out HCI market dominance

Major storage and server vendors are angling for position in hyper-converged systems. But as has been the case for a while, the jockeying really is for who finishes in third place. The battle for ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Virtual Instruments WorkloadWisdom adds NVMe-oF support

Virtual Instruments product update adds support for NVMe over Fibre Channel workload modeling and improves testing capabilities in large-scale environments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Minio prepares new object storage dish for 2019

The CEO of object storage startup Minio wants to change the way people talk about his company in 2019, beginning with the way they say its name. Most people pronounce it “MIN-EO” but CEO and ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

HYCU goes deeper into Nutanix protection

HYCU, which sells data protection specifically designed for Nutanix hyper-converged systems, today enhanced features for backing up the platform it has hitched its wagon to. Comtrade Software ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Legacy storage vendors gain in cloud era, IDC says

External storage systems are all-but-obsolete in the software-defined era.  At least that’s the fable shared repeatedly across the industry. But cloud and enterprise customers are collaborating to ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Veeam updates Availability Suite 9.5, N2WS platform

Veeam updates to its flagship product and AWS data protection include the ability to migrate old data to cheaper cloud or object storage. Update 4 of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 is scheduled to be ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Portworx update targets hybrid and multi-cloud deployments

PX-Enterprise 2.0 moves beyond storage for stateful container-based applications to provide data migration and management across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Komprise data management helps Boone County archive to Azure

Komprise's data management software helps Indiana's Boone County government archive unstructured data in Azure cloud storage and reduce on-site storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Hedvig storage gives university more replication, redundancy

Located in the center of Tornado Alley, Pittsburg State University in Kansas gave heavy weight to redundancy and replication before acquiring Hedvig software-defined storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Actifio revenue up, seeks to align with DevOps, cloud

Actifio is looking to ride a DevOps wave to an initial public offering, but for now the data management vendor is concentrating on bolstering support of its customers and channel partners. Actifio, ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Quobyte wins Points for Kubernetes storage

Points International's storage revamp for Kubernetes includes Dell EMC servers running solid-state drives and a distributed file system from startup Quobyte. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Kaseya backup integrations a 'Done Deal'

The Kaseya backup line is growing, following the company's acquisitions of two data protection vendors. Now Kaseya is adding a program that guarantees customers to managed service providers. In ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Automated data management is a crucial part of IT's future

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Automated data management is a crucial part of IT's future

Automating data management will play an important role in helping us cope with the coming zettabyte apocalypse, a time when the amount of data generated will overwhelm storage resources. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Virtual Instruments makes VirtualWisdom proactive

A major update to Virtual Instruments' infrastructure management product adds proactive analytics, predictive capacity capabilities, interactive topology maps and iSCSI support. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Commvault staggers under weight of 'massive changes'

While going through a transition period, data protection vendor Commvault’s sales are still taking a hit. Commvault’s revenue for last quarter of $169.1 million fell $10 million below Wall Street ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veeam CEO shakeup: Co-founder in, McKay out

Veeam Software has reshuffled its executive team, promoting co-founder Andrei Baronov to CEO, while Peter McKay is no longer with the data protection company after 2 ½ years as an executive, ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Security patch issued for Arcserve Unified Data Protection

Arcserve Unified Data Protection customers are being told to patch the backup platform after a security provider found issues that could leave data unprotected. The four vulnerabilities in Arcserve ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

How blockchain data storage may revolutionize the enterprise

Blockchain for data storage promises to bring added trust, reliability and security to storage, but is it ready to become a mainstream technology? Experts offer their views. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Hammerspace targets data silos with new software service

Silicon Valley startup debuts software service that harnesses data virtualization technology from Primary Data and adds hybrid cloud data management and metadata as a service. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support

Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Caringo Swarm adds single server option, multi-cloud support

Caringo aims its Swarm Single Server object storage appliance at companies that want object storage but don't need petabytes of it in a multinode cluster. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

City buses use Cloudian storage for video data

Cloudian object storage hops a ride on Montebello Bus Lines, helping the California city improve its storage system for surveillance camera footage that had proved challenging. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

StorOne storage is set to disrupt the software-defined market

StorOne's TRU Storage technology raises the bar for software-defined storage by gathering together universal pools of storage across disparate hardware that any workload can use. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

StorOne storage is set to disrupt the software-defined market

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4 different file systems and how they're evolving

As computing and data centers change, so must the next-generation file system evolve. Here's what you should know about the file systems in use today and where they're headed. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Startup raises $60 million to grow Datrium DVX business

Datrium's latest $60 million funding will fuel its hybrid cloud computing and data management product line and business expansion into Europe. The Series D funding round boosted the Sunnyvale, ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC, Nutanix share HCI market leadership

Dell EMC extended its lead over Nutanix in hyper-converged systems sales in the second quarter, although Nutanix crept ahead of Dell-owned VMware into first when the market is measured by HCI ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Scality Zenko goes GA for multi-cloud data management

Scality launches Zenko 1.0 multi-cloud data controller software, offering a commercially supported enterprise edition and a freely available open source version. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

How a global file system interface eases data growing pains

If reaching the storage limits of a file server is an imminent threat at your organization, a global system may be the answer to your data growth woes. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Lenovo-NetApp partnership targets rivals Dell and HPE

Lenovo and NetApp go after Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise with a multiyear partnership to bolster enterprise storage offerings and create a joint venture company in China. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

VSphere vs. KVM: Assessing hypervisors in hyper-convergence

Hyper-converged infrastructure has become a complex and competitive segment of the data center architecture market in recent years and so too has the architecture's support for hypervisors. Examples of hyper-converged hypervisors vary, and, over time, a number of HCI vendors have turned to the open source kernel-based virtual machine hypervisor as an alternative to VMware vSphere and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft Hyper-V and others.

This vSphere vs. KVM competition aptly illustrates the evolution of hypervisors in hyper-convergence. For hyper-converged vendors and their customers, KVM offers several advantages, including a lower cost. Some vendors are now supporting KVM, including ones that have built their entire platform around it.

There are tradeoffs to taking the KVM route in the vSphere vs. KVM sweepstakes. We explain what those are as we assess where hypervisors fit in hyper-convergence. We also outline what you need to know to adapt to the less mature KVM ecosystem and migrate away from other more established and comprehensive -- yet more expensive -- technologies.

Also in this issue, we look at how traditional backup no longer meets the speedy data recovery expectations of modern enterprises–hence the growing use of backup alternatives, such as snapshots and replication. However, there are problems with these approaches to data protection, as well. We explore these shortcomings and find out what can be done to successfully combine snapshots and replication with backup to form a comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery plan. We also outline how another option, copy data management, may be the answer IT is looking for to meet management's fast and wide-ranging data recovery ambitions.

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Startup Infinite io ropes new investors for its cloud NAS controller

Sometimes a storage startup makes a bang, fades into the background, and you forget about it – until the company snares a passel of new investors. That was the case with NAS controller specialist ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Report highlights IT resilience shortcomings

In "The State of IT Resilience," analysis firm IDC estimates that as many as 50% of organizations could not survive a disaster event. A co-author of the report says long-time threats of hardware ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Investors pour $94 million into Cloudian storage

The record $94 million funding round that Cloudian trumpeted today suggests investors have plenty of interest in highly scalable object storage and distributed file systems. Cloudian sells turnkey ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

HPE storage decline offset by big data, converged demand

What does a vendor do when storage sales lag projections? If you’re Hewlett Packard Enterprise, you blame it on potential vagaries in currency. On Tuesday, the Palo Alto, Calif, hardware maker ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Cisco HyperFlex bundles Veeam data protection

LAS VEGAS -- Unlike many of its data protection software rivals, Veeam Software has resisted putting its applications on a branded integrated appliance. Instead, it partners with large and small ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

ClearSky Data launches service for VMware Cloud on AWS

New service from Boston-based startup ClearSky enables VMware Cloud on AWS customers to back up and archive data in Amazon's object-based Simple Storage Service. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Chambers signs on as Rubrik investor

A year ago at VMworld, Rubrik introduced 6-foot-11 Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant as an investor and board advisor. The converged secondary storage vendor’s newest money man and advisor ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

CEO: Actifio funding round to help focus on customer growth

Actifio today completed its second $100 million funding round in four years, as it moves closer to a possible IPO and seeks profitability and growth. The Actifio funding round increases the ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Storage conferences aren't what they used to be

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Alluxio adds connectors for multi-cloud data migration

Updated Alluxio open source storage software homes in on portability across multiple big data object stores. Applications access Alluxio as mountable file storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

CEO outlines Data Dynamics StorageX trends, future features

Data Dynamics' CEO discusses upcoming StorageX software capabilities designed to help customers find, analyze, move and manage unstructured data in a hybrid cloud environment. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Why object storage is becoming an alternative to RAID

RAID is a well-established storage technology, known for being reliable and secure. But as data volumes grow, more flexible, effective RAID alternatives are gaining a following. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Commvault Advance still in neutral

Commvault’s retiring CEO Bob Hammer said the data protection vendor’s ongoing transition will produce long-term gains, although they will likely follow short-term pains. Commvault unveiled a series ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veeam adds Nutanix AHV support, expands Office 365 backup

Veeam Software has launched updates to its product line to increase platform support in recent weeks while continuing on a trajectory to becoming a $1 billion company by the end of the year. Veeam ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Rubrik targets ransomware attacks with Polaris Radar

Rubrik today added an application to its Polaris SaaS platform, with the goal of automating protection against ransomware attacks. Polaris Radar is the second Polaris application from the converged ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Intel, Micron end 3D XPoint memory joint development

Micron and Intel plan to end their joint development of nonvolatile 3D XPoint memory next year, after finishing work on the second generation of the nonvolatile memory technology. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Hedvig and Veeam integration converges storage, backup

As an alternative to selling branded integrated appliances as most of its large competitors do, Veeam partners with as many hardware vendors as possible. Hedvig is the latest Veeam partner, now ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Cloudian storage adds file sync/share through partner

Object storage startup Cloudian partnered with UK-based Storage Made Easy on file sync-and-share capabilities designed to target enterprises facing compliance requirements under the European ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Ctera Networks adds Dell and HPE gateway appliance options

Ctera cloud storage gateway appliance portfolio expands with new all-SSD and all-HDD models that enable customers to run multiple applications on the same box. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

MapR Data Platform gets object tiering and S3 support

MapR Technologies adds policy-based tiering to its Data Platform to automatically move data across performance, capacity and archive storage on premises and in cloud. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell and VMware hammer out deal, but no reverse merger

Dell and VMware have taken a step – maybe only the first step – on a journey to fund Michael Dell’s on-again, off-again love affair with going public. Dell Technologies, parent company of storage ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Commvault and Azure integrations drive data protection tasks

Commvault has expanded its integration with Microsoft Azure Stack, also pulling its OEM partner Cisco into deal. With the Commvault Data Platform, enterprises using on-premises Azure Stack hybrid ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

SwiftStack 1space facilitates multi-cloud capabilities

SwiftStack launches single namespace for its object and file storage to ease data access, migration, management and search across private and public clouds. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Tintri CEO Barton tells board: ‘I'm outta here’

The captain of fast-sinking Tintri has abandoned ship, just three months after he came aboard as a lifesaver. Tintri CEO Thomas Barton, 54, informed the board of his decision on Monday, according ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Maxta MxSP dons its Red Hat for container storage

Maxta MxSP hyper-converged infrastructure is expanding integration with Red Hat. The software-only vendor has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which is built on Red Hat ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Rubrik Alta goes native for AWS EC2, adds MSP Envoy

The latest version of Rubrik Alta Cloud Data Management software adds data protection and management capabilities across clouds, for enterprise users as well as managed service providers. Rubrik ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

New CEO expects Caringo Swarm to ride object storage wave

Object storage veteran Caringo switches CEOs and is looking to 'Swarm' the market through expanded partnerships that go well beyond its Dell OEM relationship. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cohesity backs up truck, unloads $250M in funding

Fast-growing secondary data storage vendor Cohesity closed a massive $250 million funding round today, a total that could give it enough capital to become a public company within a few years. ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Networked storage systems revenue climbs, for most vendors anyway

Cloud and software-defined products are eating away at traditional enterprise networked storage systems, but the latter category still represents a fairly robust market. In fact, the emergence of ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Dell, VMware likely held HCI revenue share leads

While IDC probably won’t release its hyper-converged market share numbers for the first quarter until late June, it appears Dell will stay No. 1 on the HCI revenue hardware and software charts. IDC ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Use object storage technology to fight ransomware infection

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Use object storage technology to fight ransomware infection

Done right, object storage reduces the likelihood of a successful ransomware attack and, in some instances, lets you get data back without paying a ransom. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Scality storage update adds three-server option

Scality Ring 7.4 file and object storage software takes aim at easing installation and ongoing management, and it adds a lower-cost three-server entry configuration. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Cloudian makes moves, keeps up with changing object storage market

The flurry of activity surrounding on-premise object storage specialist Cloudian suggests how rapidly the market has been moving during the last year. Cloudian CEO Michael Tso said 2017 was the ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Startup Komprise strikes reseller agreement with IBM

Komprise struck its first major reseller agreement, partnering with IBM to offer Komprise Intelligent Data Management software with the vendor’s storage portfolio. Customers can use Komprise ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

ZertoCON 2018: IT resilience takes center stage

BOSTON – At the first ZertoCON in 2016, analyst John Morency said that "IT resilience" is becoming the new "disaster recovery." The concept at the time stressed continuous availability and ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Block, file and object storage interfaces enable integration

Explore the capabilities, as well as the strengths and weaknesses, of some storage vendors' products that support and integrate block, file and object interfaces. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

Quest hopes NetVault Backup 12 can vault into enterprise

While Veeam Software uses its VeeamON user conference this week to further its push into the enterprise, Quest Software is making its own attempt to go the same route with its NetVault Backup. ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

VeeamON 2018: Beyond availability and data protection

CHICAGO – Veeam unveiled a copy data management feature at its VeeamON 2018 user conference Tuesday as part of its newly branded Hyper-Availability Platform. Veeam DataLabs, part of the vendor's ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Updated IBM storage products focus on cost savings and cloud

IBM storage enhancements focus on data deduplication expansion, cloud-based Storage Insights, VM-based Spectrum NAS and Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

OwnBackup GDPR features seek to aid compliance

With two weeks to go before the compliance deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation, cloud-to-cloud backup vendor OwnBackup is helping its customers prepare for the comprehensive set of ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Dell EMC storage IPO, VMware merger plans still unclear

Dell Technologies World 2018 has come and gone with hardly a mention of the corporate reorganization Michael Dell and his team is considering as the next step after Dell’s $60 billion-plus 2017 ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

New DataCore CEO looks to MaxParallel to drive expansion

DataCore CEO Dave Zabrowski takes the reins from founder George Teixeira as the company works to use MaxParallel product to go beyond storage to the software-defined data center. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

New Red Hat Storage One bundles hardware, SDS

Red Hat partners with Supermicro on first turnkey storage package, bundling Gluster Storage software, server hardware and support at one price in a single SKU. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Unitrends VMware backup takes swipe at Veeam

The Unitrends VMware backup product that launched today is going directly after one of the data protection vendor's major competitors. VM Backup Essentials (vBE) converges many features the vendor ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor