object storage

Backup

Pure Storage fleshes out hybrid cloud strategy with NVMe-oF support and ObjectEngine launch

February 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage fleshes out hybrid cloud strategy with NVMe-oF support and ObjectEngine launch
Support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet is available now in Purity 5.2 software, while the ObjectEngine flash-to-flash-to-cloud data protection acquired from StorReduce will hit GA in the first half of the year.

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Backup

SwiftStack sees big pluses in partnering with Veeam around new Veeam Cloud Tier

January 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SwiftStack sees big pluses in partnering with Veeam around new Veeam Cloud Tier
The SwiftStack integration, their first ever with Veeam, lets local data on Veeam servers be automatically moved between performance and capacity tiers created in SwiftStack, defined by an organization’s management and retention policies.

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Backup

Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release

January 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release
In addition to the flood of news around Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, Veeam also announced Veeam Availability for AWS, Veeam Availability Console V3, and a new licensing option with one license for any workload.

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Big Data

WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology
WANDisco has developed and patented DConE, its own blockchain technology that they can use today to keep data consistent across multiple clouds, and which they plan to be able to eventually use to manage distributed blockchain environments as well.

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Big Data

New Pentaho-Hitachi Content Platform integration strengthens, simplifies Pentaho use of unstructured data

December 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Pentaho-Hitachi Content Platform integration strengthens, simplifies Pentaho use of unstructured data
The new Pentaho 8.2 release also makes hybrid cloud data management easier, and adds new and updated ecosystem support, including their first with the Jupyter Notebook open-source web application.

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Storage

ElastiFile emphasizes ability to control costs in public cloud with 3.0 release

October 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ElastiFile emphasizes ability to control costs in public cloud with 3.0 release
ElastiFile 3.0 introduces ClearTier, which facilitates the creation of an integrated file/object namespace, and greatly lowers costs by allowing file systems to be stored in object.

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Storage

Object storage vendor Caringo ramps up Swarm 10 to support denser environments, introduces single server offering

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Object storage vendor Caringo ramps up Swarm 10 to support denser environments, introduces single server offering
The new Caringo single server offering, which is aimed at smaller and midsize intense data users like media post-production houses, is likely to be the most interesting thing here to channel partners.

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Cloud

New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades
Hitachi Content Platform, which is fundamental to Hitachi Vantara’s second step in their Stairway to Value by enriching data and providing compliance safeguards, gets some important integration upgrades, but the showier part of this announcement is around the sync variant, HCP Anywhere, which now has an Edge capability that broadens its use case into both IoT and larger ROBO environments.

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Storage

Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements
In addition to completing the full integration of the analytics capabilities HPE acquired last year with Nimble, HPE also expanded their tools and integrations to automate 3PAR in the cloud, DevOps, virtualization and container environments.

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Storage

Cloudian makes complementary move partnering with Storage Made Easy on file sync-and-share solution for compliance

July 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian makes complementary move partnering with Storage Made Easy on file sync-and-share solution for compliance
The Cloudian partnership with Storage Made Easy adds an enterprise file sync-and-share capability to the core Cloudian offering. Cloudian and its channel partners will resell the joint solution.

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Cloud

NetApp places big bet on hyperconverged infrastructure

June 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp places big bet on hyperconverged infrastructure
At their C3 partner event this week, NetApp exhorted partners to ramp up their efforts to sell NetApp’s new HCI offering based on Solidfire technology, while not letting up on their FlexPod CI activities.

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Cloud

Komprise signs first non-cloud strategic reseller relationship,with IBM

May 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Komprise signs first non-cloud strategic reseller relationship,with IBM
Intelligent data management startup Komprise has also expanded their distribution network, signing on Lifeboat to complement original distribution partner Synnex

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Cloud

Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage
Liquidware also thinks that the capability to save directly to the AWS, Microsoft and Google object storage clouds, which is a first in this space, will also appeal to customers with a hybrid desktop computing strategy, who are not yet ready for a full move to DaaS.

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Storage

StorageCraft targets law enforcement market with tailored storage solution for body cameras

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft targets law enforcement market with tailored storage solution for body cameras
The need for reasonably priced storage to handle the large storage demand from 4K body cams being acquired by police departments is leading VARs who have not focused on these verticals to move into the space, and has also led StorageCraft to design a custom storage solution for it.

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Backup

Cohesity making push into file and object storage market

February 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity making push into file and object storage market
Cohesity is looking to move beyond its hyper-converged backup roots with an aggressive drive to attract customers looking for file and object storage as principal use cases.

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Cloud

New multi-cloud support highlights Cloudian HyperStore 7

January 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New multi-cloud support highlights Cloudian HyperStore 7
Extending their native cloud support to the Google and Microsoft clouds as well as AWS will allow Cloudian partners to add a multi-cloud dimension to their hybrid cloud options for customers.

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Storage

Cloudian expands beyond object storage with Cloudian HyperFile integrated NAS Controller

December 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian expands beyond object storage with Cloudian HyperFile integrated NAS Controller
The integration of full-featured file support to the Cloudian object platform opens them to some new markets – and is also opening them to some new types of channel partners.

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Cloud

SwiftStack offers both native file and object multi-cloud data management in SwiftStack 6

December 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on SwiftStack offers both native file and object multi-cloud data management in SwiftStack 6
SwiftStack continues to broaden out from its object storage roots, with the addition of native file capability, which combined with their Cloud Sync feature, lets customers read and write to a single namespace, without a gateway, and to any cloud or on-prem location.

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Partnerships

Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration
The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.

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Backup

Nutanix to add three new developer-focused services as part of enterprise cloud strategy

November 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix to add three new developer-focused services as part of enterprise cloud strategy
The provision of new object storage, compute and marketplace services to developers is part of a continuing Nutanix strategy to elevate itself from providing HCI infrastructure to providing the whole stack.

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