vFilo’s file and object capabilities complement DataCore’s SANsymphony block storage, and while their interfaces are separate at the moment, the plan is to integrate them.
The cloud integration is a beta that enables easy migration between S3 and NetApp StorageGrid, while the on-prem one extends Komprise’s new Deep analytics to NetApp CloudVolumes ONTAP.
At an event dominated by NetApp’s Keystone model to extend their data fabric strategy, the company did make some important product announcements. But if you blinked, you may have missed them.
Both the enhancements to the core platform and services around it have a strong emphasis on increasing performance and AI at the edge.
Keystone is a strategy around providing a seamless public cloud experience across public and private clouds and on-prem data centres, which contains attached offerings and services.
The partnership with SwiftStack extends InfiniteIO’s core value proposition of applying network deep packet inspection to NFS traffic, to identify and offload metadata requests and accelerate NAS performance.
Aparavi File Protect & Insight is being sold as a separate solution from their original Active Archive, because the use cases are so fundamentally different.
Dell’s channel delivered good performance numbers in their now-completed Q2, but the big news for the channel in the quarter may be a pair of management changes at Dell that are related to larger organizational restructuring.
At their GO 2019 event, Commvault laid out further details about their vision for their Hedvig software-defined storage acquisition, as well as its roadmap going forward.
Hitachi Vantara’s services portfolio and as-a-services capabilities are not new, but they are being significantly expanded, with a key being the integration of REAN Cloud into the portfolio.
Supermicro also wants partners to make more use of Centres of Excellence to demonstrate POCs to customers.
At an event that emphasized the ability of Hitachi Vantara’s new solution set to deliver end-to-end performance for the DataOps economy, the most exciting new product of the show was a box. But it’s a very special box.
Hitachi Vantara’s overall vision has been extremely consistent since they launched the company two years ago, but at their third NEXT conference on Wednesday they gave new emphasis to the concept of DataOps, and unveiled a host of products to help bring it to fruition
Hitachi Vantara also clarified how they plan to manage the integration in January with Hitachi Consulting to optimize the new internal assets’ collaboration with partners, and limit any channel conflict.
For FileCloud’s growing MSP channel, the attractiveness of Smart DLP really depends on how critical customers subject to regulatory compliance are to their business model.
The new integrations, around primary storage, analytics and long-term data retention, further enhance a partnership that began a year ago.
Cohesity says that SmartFiles’ leveraging of capabilities added to the Cohesity DataPlatform in version 6.3 provides unique benefits from any other NAS solution on the market.
The new Backblaze integration with Tiger Bridge is designed to solve a pain point for businesses and MSPs who want to tier their data in Veeam to the cloud at low cost.
Pure is announcing both the doubling of FlashBlade to 150 blades, an expansion of AIRI with the AI Data Hub, aimed at end-to-end use cases beyond simply training AI, and AIRI-as-a-Service, which will be delivered by Pure partner Core Scientific.
In what can best be described as an example of customer-led innovation, where an important customer wanted a joint solution to suit their needs, Vertica and Pure Storage have developed a solution that will facilitate a hybrid database strategy.
