Storage architecture and strategy

Amazon buys NVMe startup E8 Storage to boost public cloud

The E8 Storage portfolio includes D-24 appliances that pack 24 NVMe SSDs in 2U, plus software-defined storage software for reference hardware with major server vendors. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Western Digital’s ActiveScale adds new DR, workflow options

Western Digital's object storage product update boosts capacity and throughput, supports asynchronous object distribution for multisite DR and offers 14 TB HDDs. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Commvault earnings disappoint; can SaaS save its butt?

Commvault is 0-for-2 so far under new CEO Sanjay Mirchandani. The data protection vendor reported earnings this week, falling below expectations for the second quarter since Mirchandani replaced ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Get to know data storage containers and their terminology

Looking into containerization? You're going to need these key terms to better understand the technology, how it works and which vendors are offering it. Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor

Blockchain terminology: 7 key blockchain storage terms

Storage built around blockchain can be confusing, but understanding basic blockchain storage terminology can help clarify what the technology is and how it works. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

Quest QoreStor adds cloud tier, fast tier and a UI makeover

QoreStor's latest update adds many new features, including the unique ability to dedicate a high-speed disk area that can be deduplicated without sacrificing recovery speed. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Getting started with containerized storage

Containerization simplifies storage operations, saving time and money. Getting started is easy, too, once you know what to look for. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

DataCore adds new HCI, analytics, subscription price options

DataCore adds an HCI appliance based on Dell hardware, a cloud-based predictive analytics engine for proactive maintenance and new pricing options for its software-defined storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Scality Ring upgrade targets hybrid cloud data management

Scality Ring8 file and object storage adds Zenko cloud data orchestration -- called Extended Data Management (XDM) -- but for now that feature is a separate software installation. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Cloudian teams with Seagate, VMware on new storage options

Cloudian's latest partnerships will give customers options to use the object storage in new high-density Seagate appliances and VMware-based cloud environments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

3PAR customers face adjustment with new HPE Primera array

Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage customers say they like many of the Primera storage array's new capabilities, but will miss some 3PAR features that are going away. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

How to manage storage for Kubernetes challenges

The Kubernetes container orchestration platform has undergone changes to resolve storage challenges, including adding plugins for persistent data. However, some issues remain. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

AI-infused HPE Primera storage array debuts, HPE 3PAR still in the mix

While HPE Primera, which includes HPE InfoSight AI and machine learning tech, will be available to order in August, the company says 3PAR will continue to be enhanced and updated. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Kaminario expands its storage-as-a-service offerings

To expand its capabilities as a storage-as-a-service platform, Kaminario has added metered usage payments, disaster recovery and the ability to use services on the public cloud. Continue Reading

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• Tanner Harding

Where serverless storage fits in the serverless computing world

Storage for serverless functions must be external to the compute environment. Learn about the types of storage that work best for serverless computing. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Effective data management to combat the coming data apocalypse

Data management and storage are evolving to deal with the coming datasphere explosion. Learn what's happening with unstructured, IoT and cloud data, as well as storage tiering. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 targets ease of use, hybrid cloud

SUSE will ship its Ceph-based Enterprise Storage update next month, with management, data protection and cloud integration improvements. Its product roadmap includes containerized Ceph and HCI. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

OwnBackup funding will drive further SaaS data protection

As the software-as-a-service market expands, SaaS backup provider OwnBackup secured its largest funding round today and will use the money to expand its Salesforce data protection. The OwnBackup ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Red Hat storage GM explains strategy change, customer impact

A Red Hat GM discusses the impact of a shift in storage focus from stand-alone products to OpenShift containers, hybrid cloud and hyper-convergence. He says value lies more with innovation than commoditization. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Why storage tiering is necessary now more than ever

Tiered storage is making a comeback by incorporating AI machine learning to take advantage of the cost and performance benefits of new SSD and storage class memory technologies. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Portworx focuses on protecting container apps

The Portworx PX-Enterprise 2.2 storage software update adds single-command backup of container-based data and Kubernetes resources to S3-based object storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Red Hat storage shifts focus to OpenShift, hybrid cloud, HCI

Red Hat changes focus from selling stand-alone Ceph and Gluster products to promoting storage technologies designed for OpenShift, hybrid cloud and hyper-convergence deployments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IBM-Red Hat deal raises no storage red flags yet

Storage practitioners say they expect Red Hat's 'new overlords' at IBM to tread lightly on Red Hat storage, despite potential product overlaps after the $34 billion deal closes. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Managing NetApp CIFS shares with PowerShell

NetApp provides a feature-rich PowerShell module to manage CIFS shares. Find out how it works, as well as how to set up a new share and establish permissions. Continue Reading

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• Dan Franciscus

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage to move from Gluster to Ceph

Red Hat's plans to change the core technology in its OpenShift Container Storage from Gluster to Ceph with an upcoming major product release leaves customers with lots of questions. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

DDN storage acquisitions continue with Nexenta pickup

DataDirect Networks keeps expanding by acquisition. The high-performance computing storage specialist this week made its third acquisition in the past year, picking up software-defined storage ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Carbonite integrating Mozy backup, ending free edition support

Carbonite will end support for the free edition of Mozy's consumer product on Monday. The cloud data protection heavyweight would like to convert remaining Mozy customers onto its own ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

What you need to know about blockchain storage

Using blockchain for data storage is growing in popularity. Here, we answer five frequently asked questions about this emerging technology to help you get started. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

2 storage tiering strategies for modern media

Storage tiering makes a comeback as businesses aim to get the most out of their storage systems. Discover the rules for optimizing both intrasystem and intersystem tiering. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Carbonite and Webroot close deal, focus on ransomware

After closing its largest acquisition, Carbonite said it will emphasize, at least initially, a "do-no-harm" method in the integration efforts. In a deal that closed March 26, the backup and ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Dell Technologies World 2019 news and analysis

Dell Tech World 2019 promises plenty of news, from hyper-convergence to the ever-present cloud. Vendor news, such as product consolidation and overlap, will also be discussed. Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor

Komprise launches NAS migration tool, user-driven archiving

Komprise says customers wanted NAS migration as a separate tool, so it now makes it available even if you don't buy its full Intelligent Data Management platform. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

5 Ceph storage questions answered and explained

What do you need to know about Ceph open source storage to decide if it's right for your organization? See how it compares to object storage alternatives, and optimize its use. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

What's new in Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?

Microsoft has increased the capacity, resiliency and other advantages of the software-defined storage that comes with Windows Server 2019. Find out about all the benefits. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

7 storage questions ahead of Dell Technologies World

We'd like to know where Dell EMC stands on midrange storage, NVMe over fabrics, data protection, hyper-convergence, cloud and containers, among other things. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

At Dell Technologies World, Dell will put its stamp on EMC

Dell EMC storage has taken on more of a 'Dell' feel over the past year, thanks in part to reliance on PowerEdge Servers and spinning out Pivotal Software into a public company. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Data migration checklist: 6 steps to ease migration stress

Following a detailed data migration strategy with extensive upfront planning can simplify complicated and labor-intensive SAN data migration projects. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Ctera Networks and HPE combine for hyper-converged gateway

Ctera and HPE partner on new Edge X Series cloud gateway appliance that integrates Ctera's global file system and HPE's SimpliVity hyper-converged software. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

SwiftStack adds a disk object-based AI reference architecture

SwiftStack's reference architecture for AI and machine learning bundles Nvidia servers for compute and disk-based Cisco or Dell EMC servers to scale object storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Alluxio adds support for more than 1 billion files

An update to Alluxio's data management software boosts scalability to more than 1 billion files, adds a POSIX API and enables a job service for replication and data transfer. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Mellanox SmartNIC SNAPs into NVMe SSDs

As it waits to get acquired by Nvidia, Mellanox brings out an NVMe SNAP device that lets storage vendors place code directly on BlueField SmartNIC network cards. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing

Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Dell EMC ECS update focuses on security, management, search

Dell EMC updates on-premises ECS 3.3 object storage, formerly known as Elastic Cloud Storage, with new and improved capabilities in the areas of security, management and search. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'

Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Hammerspace adds Kubernetes CSI driver for containers

Startup Hammerspace updates product with Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver and multisite global namespace to facilitate data access in container environments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

How blockchain storage could benefit the enterprise

Whether your organization is a potential buyer or seller of blockchain data storage, the technology could change how you look at storage. Discover where blockchain is headed. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Talon Storage 2019 roadmap: Object and storage consolidation

Talon plans to add new capabilities to manage large-scale deployments and consolidate storage in the cloud, including an option for built-in object storage due in Q4. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

data deduplication

Data deduplication is a process that eliminates redundant copies of data and reduces storage overhead. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz
• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor

Compuverde helps German university consolidate storage

German university licenses more than 1 PB of Compuverde software-defined storage to consolidate an unknown number of NAS systems from NetApp and smaller vendors. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019

Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

NetApp founder Dave Hitz steps away after 26 years

Retiring founder of NetApp Dave Hitz says the vendor is well-positioned for industrywide storage transitions, but recent sales results show challenges remain. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Top 5 enterprise storage trends of 2018

Dave Raffo won't pretend to know what 2019 will bring to the world of enterprise data storage, but he does know what he learned while following the data storage industry in 2018. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Top 5 enterprise storage trends of 2018

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Cloudian HyperStore 7

New multi-cloud capabilities vault object storage specialist Cloudian to first place with its HyperStore product. Judges were particularly impressed with its functionality. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Portworx PX-Enterprise

PX-Enterprise, which helps users deploy persistent storage with containerized applications, stood out among other competitors for its innovation and value. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Quobyte Data Center File System 2.0

Startup Quobyte's 'up-and-comer' distributed parallel file system caught judges' attention as being easier to deploy, operate and manage in high-performance environments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Data storage startups to watch in 2019

Failure is a more likely outcome than success for a storage startup. Still, intrepid newcomers offer innovative technologies in cloud, backup, convergence and flash. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal

Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics

Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Advantages of object storage and how it differs from alternatives

File and block storage might provide better performance, but granular metadata and near-infinite scalability make object storage equally beneficial. Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

DataCore storage gets Kubernetes and Docker plugins

New DataCore plugins for Kubernetes and Docker will help customers developing container-based applications and microservices to access its software-defined storage products. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Storage Migration Service eases Windows Server transfers

See how SMS eases the process of migrating Windows servers, simplifying the administrator's job and minimizing the disruptions to users and applications. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment

One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs

Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cloud and software-defined storage products: 2018 POY finalists

Multi-cloud data management and container support are themes among the 2018 software-defined and cloud storage finalists of TechTarget's Storage Products of the Year competition. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Storage systems and management tools: 2018 POY finalists

Storage management tools candidates for the 2018 Storage Products of the Year competition skew heavily toward simpler interfaces and greater access to real-time data. Continue Reading

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• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

6 steps to how blockchain storage works

See how blockchain technology has the potential to provide a secure and reliable enterprise data storage environment with our step-by-step guide to blockchain data storage. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

2018 M&A in storage centered on flash, cloud and backup

No billion-dollar blockbusters in 2018 storage M&A activity as vendors stayed away from big deals and concentrated on filling gaps in their flash, cloud and backup portfolios. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell’s VMware, Nutanix duke out HCI market dominance

Major storage and server vendors are angling for position in hyper-converged systems. But as has been the case for a while, the jockeying really is for who finishes in third place. The battle for ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Virtual Instruments WorkloadWisdom adds NVMe-oF support

Virtual Instruments product update adds support for NVMe over Fibre Channel workload modeling and improves testing capabilities in large-scale environments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Minio prepares new object storage dish for 2019

The CEO of object storage startup Minio wants to change the way people talk about his company in 2019, beginning with the way they say its name. Most people pronounce it “MIN-EO” but CEO and ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

HYCU goes deeper into Nutanix protection

HYCU, which sells data protection specifically designed for Nutanix hyper-converged systems, today enhanced features for backing up the platform it has hitched its wagon to. Comtrade Software ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Legacy storage vendors gain in cloud era, IDC says

External storage systems are all-but-obsolete in the software-defined era.  At least that’s the fable shared repeatedly across the industry. But cloud and enterprise customers are collaborating to ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Veeam updates Availability Suite 9.5, N2WS platform

Veeam updates to its flagship product and AWS data protection include the ability to migrate old data to cheaper cloud or object storage. Update 4 of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 is scheduled to be ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Portworx update targets hybrid and multi-cloud deployments

PX-Enterprise 2.0 moves beyond storage for stateful container-based applications to provide data migration and management across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Komprise data management helps Boone County archive to Azure

Komprise's data management software helps Indiana's Boone County government archive unstructured data in Azure cloud storage and reduce on-site storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Hedvig storage gives university more replication, redundancy

Located in the center of Tornado Alley, Pittsburg State University in Kansas gave heavy weight to redundancy and replication before acquiring Hedvig software-defined storage. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Actifio revenue up, seeks to align with DevOps, cloud

Actifio is looking to ride a DevOps wave to an initial public offering, but for now the data management vendor is concentrating on bolstering support of its customers and channel partners. Actifio, ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Quobyte wins Points for Kubernetes storage

Points International's storage revamp for Kubernetes includes Dell EMC servers running solid-state drives and a distributed file system from startup Quobyte. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Kaseya backup integrations a 'Done Deal'

The Kaseya backup line is growing, following the company's acquisitions of two data protection vendors. Now Kaseya is adding a program that guarantees customers to managed service providers. In ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Automated data management is a crucial part of IT's future

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Automated data management is a crucial part of IT's future

Automating data management will play an important role in helping us cope with the coming zettabyte apocalypse, a time when the amount of data generated will overwhelm storage resources. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Virtual Instruments makes VirtualWisdom proactive

A major update to Virtual Instruments' infrastructure management product adds proactive analytics, predictive capacity capabilities, interactive topology maps and iSCSI support. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Commvault staggers under weight of 'massive changes'

While going through a transition period, data protection vendor Commvault’s sales are still taking a hit. Commvault’s revenue for last quarter of $169.1 million fell $10 million below Wall Street ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veeam CEO shakeup: Co-founder in, McKay out

Veeam Software has reshuffled its executive team, promoting co-founder Andrei Baronov to CEO, while Peter McKay is no longer with the data protection company after 2 ½ years as an executive, ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Security patch issued for Arcserve Unified Data Protection

Arcserve Unified Data Protection customers are being told to patch the backup platform after a security provider found issues that could leave data unprotected. The four vulnerabilities in Arcserve ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

How blockchain data storage may revolutionize the enterprise

Blockchain for data storage promises to bring added trust, reliability and security to storage, but is it ready to become a mainstream technology? Experts offer their views. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Hammerspace targets data silos with new software service

Silicon Valley startup debuts software service that harnesses data virtualization technology from Primary Data and adds hybrid cloud data management and metadata as a service. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support

Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Caringo Swarm adds single server option, multi-cloud support

Caringo aims its Swarm Single Server object storage appliance at companies that want object storage but don't need petabytes of it in a multinode cluster. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

City buses use Cloudian storage for video data

Cloudian object storage hops a ride on Montebello Bus Lines, helping the California city improve its storage system for surveillance camera footage that had proved challenging. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

StorOne storage is set to disrupt the software-defined market

StorOne's TRU Storage technology raises the bar for software-defined storage by gathering together universal pools of storage across disparate hardware that any workload can use. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

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4 different file systems and how they're evolving

As computing and data centers change, so must the next-generation file system evolve. Here's what you should know about the file systems in use today and where they're headed. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Startup raises $60 million to grow Datrium DVX business

Datrium's latest $60 million funding will fuel its hybrid cloud computing and data management product line and business expansion into Europe. The Series D funding round boosted the Sunnyvale, ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC, Nutanix share HCI market leadership

Dell EMC extended its lead over Nutanix in hyper-converged systems sales in the second quarter, although Nutanix crept ahead of Dell-owned VMware into first when the market is measured by HCI ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Scality Zenko goes GA for multi-cloud data management

Scality launches Zenko 1.0 multi-cloud data controller software, offering a commercially supported enterprise edition and a freely available open source version. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

How a global file system interface eases data growing pains

If reaching the storage limits of a file server is an imminent threat at your organization, a global system may be the answer to your data growth woes. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Lenovo-NetApp partnership targets rivals Dell and HPE

Lenovo and NetApp go after Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise with a multiyear partnership to bolster enterprise storage offerings and create a joint venture company in China. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

VSphere vs. KVM: Assessing hypervisors in hyper-convergence

Hyper-converged infrastructure has become a complex and competitive segment of the data center architecture market in recent years and so too has the architecture's support for hypervisors. Examples of hyper-converged hypervisors vary, and, over time, a number of HCI vendors have turned to the open source kernel-based virtual machine hypervisor as an alternative to VMware vSphere and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft Hyper-V and others.

This vSphere vs. KVM competition aptly illustrates the evolution of hypervisors in hyper-convergence. For hyper-converged vendors and their customers, KVM offers several advantages, including a lower cost. Some vendors are now supporting KVM, including ones that have built their entire platform around it.

There are tradeoffs to taking the KVM route in the vSphere vs. KVM sweepstakes. We explain what those are as we assess where hypervisors fit in hyper-convergence. We also outline what you need to know to adapt to the less mature KVM ecosystem and migrate away from other more established and comprehensive -- yet more expensive -- technologies.

Also in this issue, we look at how traditional backup no longer meets the speedy data recovery expectations of modern enterprises–hence the growing use of backup alternatives, such as snapshots and replication. However, there are problems with these approaches to data protection, as well. We explore these shortcomings and find out what can be done to successfully combine snapshots and replication with backup to form a comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery plan. We also outline how another option, copy data management, may be the answer IT is looking for to meet management's fast and wide-ranging data recovery ambitions.

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