NetApp has announced upgrades to key software products that make up their Data Fabric, including ONTAP 9.3.
Software, Storage
New ONTAP 9.3 release highlights NetApp Data Fabric announcements
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Tag Archive for object storage
Storage
Spectra Logic adds mid-market upgradeable NAS solution to BlackPearl family
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Spectra BlackPearl NAS differs from the Spectra Logic existing Spectra Verde NAS box by being attached to their BlackPearl object storage gateway, and also by being upgradeable to BlackPearl.
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Storage
Tegile sees massive new partner, sales opportunities from joining Western Digital
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Tegile also pledged that the channel commitment will remain the same as part of WD, and thinks that the deal will be a plus for partners.
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Big Data, Storage
Cloudian, Skymind partner to democratize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools
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Cloudian and Skymind will jointly create integrated AI and machine learning solutions, with the first being a security monitoring tool based on pattern recognition
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Backup, Storage
Cohesity moves beyond backup with 5.0 platform release
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There are four main enhancements, one of which is the addition of file and object storage support to give the Cohesity platform an archiving capability as well as backup.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Cloudian launches partner program for vendors putting data into Cloudian HyperStore
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The Cloudian Data Management Partners Program launches with four partners out of the gate.
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WekaIO looks to channel to take massively scalable cloud-native file system to market
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WekaIO has emerged from stealth with a channel-friendly parallel scale- out file storage solution that uses the compute layer to eliminate external storage devices.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Cloudian launches first partner program as part of channel ramp-up
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Object storage vendor Cloudian has close strategic partnerships with several other vendors who touch different parts of the storage space, and their channel partners tend to be ones who work with those vendors.
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Backup, Storage
Pure Storage, Cohesity expand partnership with FlashBlade integration
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The new integration between Pure and Cohesity follows up an integration around Pure’s FlashArray//M earlier this year.
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Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade
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An upgrade to 75 blades in a single system provides 5x capacity and speed, a new 17TB blade was announced for mid-range deployments, and a new ultra-flash S3 object store was unveiled.
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Integrating Nimble: Bringing its technology, solutions and culture into HPE
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Bringing Nimble into the HPE fold raises many questions about how the integration will work. HPE Nimble gives an update on what has happened so far, and where it’s headed.
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TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio
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The big improvements are to software and hardware capabilities on the core Hitachi Content Platform and to the Hitachi Data Ingestor Platform.
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HDS Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere extends digital workplace capabilities
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New API customization capabilities make this HDS platform easier for developers to use in end-to-end digital workplace solutions, while the UI and usability features have been enhanced.
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NetApp sees mainstream channel play in 10.4 release of StorageGRID Webscale object storage
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While the channel’s role in NetApp object storage has largely been limited to specific verticals, the company believes object storage’s market has finally grown to the point where broader market opportunities are a reality.
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Cloud, Storage
New bi-directional cloud replication highlights SwiftStack 5 software release
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SwiftStack expands the one-way cloud replication it introduced last year, as part of its strategy in expanding from what was initially an on-prem solution, to one capable of managing a multi-cloud hybrid cloud.
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Panzura targets NAS with Freedom product family
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Panzura’s family of three offerings offer progressively more functionality, and all are geared to let customers leverage cloud storage while still having all the performance and features of local storage.
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HDS adds Content Intelligence platform to Hitachi Content Portfolio for object storage
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The new content intelligence solution joins the Hitachi Content Platform, an integrated cloud-file gateway and an enterprise file sync and sharing platform as core elements of a broad object storage portfolio.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Scality looks to develop select channel with its first partner program
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Object storage vendor Scality believes the time is ripe to introduce its ATLAS Partner Program, designed to provide additional support to its channel of 25 partners, and to increase that number by selective recruitment.
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Spectra Logic adds entry level, high end products to BlackPearl storage gateway family
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The entry-level V Series, with a starting street price of $12,000 – a third of the original S Series – should open up new markets, especially in security, while the high-end P Series is aimed at larger users in the markets served by system integrators.
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Caringo SwarmNFS aims to mainstream object storage by eliminating gateways to NFS
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Caringo has developed a patent-pending process that eliminates the need for a gateway by connecting the NFS server directly to the Object Storage. This significantly cuts costs and improves efficiency, opening up new use cases that Caringo believes will mainstream object storage.
