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Scale-out NAS bounces back to fight for unstructured data against object storage
Storage Editor 11 Nov 2019There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data. In October, ...
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Cloudian sees S3 interest and object storage going mainstream
Storage Editor 30 Oct 2019Object storage, based on Amazon’s S3 – pretty much a de facto standard now – is set to go mainstream. That’s the view of Cloudian’s co-founder and CEO Michael Tso. He says it’ll be, “The next NFS”, ...
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Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on
Storage Editor 25 Apr 2018French 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 ...
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Elastifile goes to market with a parallel file system for the hybrid cloud
Storage Editor 04 Apr 2017There are lots of scale-out, parallel file systems about, from those of the big six array makers such as NetApp’s clustered Ontap and EMC’s Isilon OneFS to the open source and distributions thereof ...
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LTFS – the Linear Tape File System – seemed like a great idea when it emerged but not many storage vendors seem to have made much of it. It puts a file system on top of a tape library and turns it ...
Software runs the world, open source is eating the world, software-defined infrastructure control runs the planet's liquid core and so, therefore, software-defined storage management forms part of ...
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It has been an interesting month in object storage, with developments that push the technology along but also provided an interesting footnote regarding file access that illustrate an interesting ...
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Spectra Logic Black Pearl object storage + SMR disk + tape = Arctic Blue
Storage Editor 07 Dec 2015When Spectra Logic launched its DPE archive-class NAS in September it was a play at a space often targeted now by object storage products. So, I asked whether Spectra Logic had considered object ...
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SUSE has announced its Enterprise Storage 2 product. This is the latest version of its self-managing, self-healing, distributed software-based storage solution for enterprise. It is the first (and ...
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SolidFire puts flash for object (and file) storage on the roadmap
Storage Editor 17 Sep 2015All-flash array maker SolidFire plans to apply the speed of flash to object storage. So said CEO Dave Wright this week. We were discussing the prospects for the all-flash datacentre, following ...
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In storage one of the key fault lines we see is between vendors keen to ensure it's their product that builds in the intelligence needed for storage or storage-related operations to take place. I ...
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This week sees the arrival of OpenStack Grizzly, the seventh release of the open source software for building public, private and hybrid clouds.