object storage

Software

New ONTAP 9.3 release highlights NetApp Data Fabric announcements

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New ONTAP 9.3 release highlights NetApp Data Fabric announcements
NetApp has announced upgrades to key software products that make up their Data Fabric, including ONTAP 9.3.

Storage

Spectra Logic adds mid-market upgradeable NAS solution to BlackPearl family

September 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Spectra Logic adds mid-market upgradeable NAS solution to BlackPearl family
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.

Storage

Tegile sees massive new partner, sales opportunities from joining Western Digital

August 31, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tegile sees massive new partner, sales opportunities from joining Western Digital
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.

Big Data

Cloudian, Skymind partner to democratize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools

August 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian, Skymind partner to democratize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools
Cloudian and Skymind will jointly create integrated AI and machine learning solutions, with the first being a security monitoring tool based on pattern recognition

Backup

Cohesity moves beyond backup with 5.0 platform release

August 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity moves beyond backup with 5.0 platform release
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.

Channel Programs

Cloudian launches partner program for vendors putting data into Cloudian HyperStore

July 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian launches partner program for vendors putting data into Cloudian HyperStore
The Cloudian Data Management Partners Program launches with four partners out of the gate.

Storage

WekaIO looks to channel to take massively scalable cloud-native file system to market

July 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on WekaIO looks to channel to take massively scalable cloud-native file system to market
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.

Channel Programs

Cloudian launches first partner program as part of channel ramp-up

July 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian launches first partner program as part of channel ramp-up
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.

Backup

Pure Storage, Cohesity expand partnership with FlashBlade integration

June 15, 2017 Mark Cox 1
The new integration between Pure and Cohesity follows up an integration around Pure’s FlashArray//M earlier this year.

Storage

Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade
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.