StorageBuzz

April 2018

• Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on

  Antony Adshead - Storage Editor 25 Apr 2018

French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards? The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle ...

• Microsoft revives MAID with Pelican, but tape can still sleep easy

  Antony Adshead - Storage Editor 18 Apr 2018

A decade ago storage journalists were quite keen on a new technology around at the time. That was MAID – Massive Array of Idle Disks – which were basically disk-based backup target devices with ...

• Is HTTP doomed? Could blockchain help replace the Internet as we know it?

  Antony Adshead - Storage Editor 11 Apr 2018

Tim Berners-Lee is rightly famous as the originator of HTTP, a fundamental of the World Wide Web as we know it. But according to some, HTTP is old hat. It has helped create a web full of dead ...