Storage

Artificial Intelligence

WekaIO expands addressable market, partner opportunity, with Kubernetes CSI plugin

August 21, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on WekaIO expands addressable market, partner opportunity, with Kubernetes CSI plugin
WekaIO’s high performance file system has primarily sold to universities and very large enterprises with AI initiatives, but they see the new plug-in as helping address AI initiatives more broadly in the Fortune 2000.

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Operating Systems

Open source storage vendor iXsystems restructures portfolio, unveils new flagship product

August 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Open source storage vendor iXsystems restructures portfolio, unveils new flagship product
Their free FreeNAS product has been consolidated within the TrueNAS portfolio as the entry level (and still free) TrueNAS Core, which consolidates two platforms into one and accelerates R&D accordingly.

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Backup

Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution

August 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution
Pure and Cohesity have partnered around Pure FlashBlade before, but this is the first jointly engineered effort, and is backed by an integrated Go-to-Market strategy as well.

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Backup

Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh

July 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.

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Software

Integrator IMT launches new software division and SoDA [Software Defined Archive] solution

July 22, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Integrator IMT launches new software division and SoDA [Software Defined Archive] solution
IMT, which has a major presence in the media and entertainment industry, offers SoDA to move an unlimited amount of data at a fixed monthly rate, and will sell it entirely through channel partners.

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Channel Programs

NetApp tweaks partner program kicking off ‘rolling thunder’ changes during the coming year

July 22, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp tweaks partner program kicking off ‘rolling thunder’ changes during the coming year
Given that partners have their hands full with the COVID-19 situation, NetApp wanted to limit the change they have to deal with now, but major changes are coming to simplify and expand the program, while adding new investment and better differentiating partners.

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Cloud

Work From Home market helping to drive aggressive Panzura expansion strategy

July 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Work From Home market helping to drive aggressive Panzura expansion strategy
Panzura is announcing the granting of a new patent today which is being leveraged to support Work From Home environments, and to expand Panzura’s customer base downmarket from its core of larger enterprises.

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Storage

Nexsan refreshes Unity unified storage portfolio

July 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nexsan refreshes Unity unified storage portfolio
The new Third Generation of Unity offerings has two models, with a strengthened portfolio of features around them.

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Storage

Hitachi Vantara partners with WekaIO on new high performance DFS-Object store solution

July 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara partners with WekaIO on new high performance DFS-Object store solution
The new solution couples distributed file system vendor WekaIO with the Hitachi Content Platform for object storage, but the Content Platform is also getting a refresh in its own right.

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Artificial Intelligence

Aparavi pivots with new data management platform with Azure and Microsoft CSP focus

July 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aparavi pivots with new data management platform with Azure and Microsoft CSP focus
The new Aparavi, The Platform, has a more robust set of data intelligence and automation capabilities than their original offering.

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Managed Services

Diamanti adds multi-cluster Kubernetes, enhances MSP capability with Spektra 3.0  

June 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Diamanti adds multi-cluster Kubernetes, enhances MSP capability with Spektra 3.0  
With stateful applications now making up over half of containerized applications, Diamanti thinks multi-cluster Kubernetes management has become essential.

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Storage

Nebulon comes out of stealth with server-based enterprise storage that scales well past HCI

June 23, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nebulon comes out of stealth with server-based enterprise storage that scales well past HCI
Nebulon, whose founders have strong connections to 3PAR, which HP bought back in the day, is unveiling what they see as the first real innovation for server based storage  since HCI was introduced. The Go-to-Market will be through server OEMs and their channel partners.

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Storage

StorONE, Intel launch joint solution to fully leverage Intel Optane tech

June 23, 2020 Mark Cox 1
StorONE’s S1 software unlocks the full potential of Optane to the extent that the joint All-Flash Array.next offering can use Optane as a storage tier, not just as a cache.

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Storage

Fujifilm unveils unique pricing model for new Object Archive solution

June 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fujifilm unveils unique pricing model for new Object Archive solution
Fujifilm’s recently-announced offering allows objects and their metadata to be archived on tape, and the pricing model, which is being announced today, includes the media with the software subscription.

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Servers

Dell decouples OneFS software from hardware and puts it in servers with PowerScale brand

June 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell decouples OneFS software from hardware and puts it in servers with PowerScale brand
The new PowerScale OneFS operating system introduces new software capabilities, including DataIQ, which complements CloudIQ by extending insights to data and making them more broadly accessible.

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Storage

Pure Storage unifies block and file, adds continuous replication in updated FlashArray software

June 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage unifies block and file, adds continuous replication in updated FlashArray software
Pure’s new product announcements were rather fewer in number at their first virtual customer event than they typically are when the event isn’t forced online by a pandemic. The announcements they did make were very important, however.

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Storage

Cloudian introduces monitoring and observation tool with deep analytics

June 5, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian introduces monitoring and observation tool with deep analytics
Cloudian is making the basic monitoring tool available to customers for free, while the in-depth analytics has a modest fee for its use.

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Cloud

Datadobi adds support for S3-to-S3 object migrations in DobiMigrate 5.9

June 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datadobi adds support for S3-to-S3 object migrations in DobiMigrate 5.9
Datadobi sees the big market need for this not for moving S3 data from the cloud back to on-prem, but to provide more flexibility in choosing S3 clouds, in the same way that Datadobi has enabled NAS migrations between different vendors.

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Channel Programs

NetApp coronavirus response a seamless fit with transition to cloud strategy.

May 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp coronavirus response a seamless fit with transition to cloud strategy.
NetApp’s short term pandemic policies, its longer term channel initiatives, and its recent acquisition strategy, all drive towards the same cloud-centric goal.

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Storage

Dell unveils new midrange offering with Dell EMC PowerStore

May 5, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new midrange offering with Dell EMC PowerStore
While all current Dell EMC mid-range storage offerings will continue to be sold, the new PowerStore, which is up to seven times faster than the Unity XT midrange offering, becomes their Go-To offering for all-flash in the midrange.

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