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Object storage

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

  Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Commvault tops and tails HyperScale backup appliance offer

  Data protection specialist adds clustered high-end HS3300 backup appliance and the standalone Remote Office Appliance, pushing the HS1300 launched last year to mid range

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost

  Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

  We take a look at the object storage market and products and find offerings made to build public and private clouds that often provide a link between the two

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Red Hat to throw its hat in with Container Storage Interface

  Software maker will add Container Storage Interface support to its existing OpenShift Container Platform and GlusterFS-based scale-out file system container storage

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Enterprise demand drives hike in storage sales, says IDC

  Healthy jump in all-flash and SAN/NAS sales is being driven by enterprise storage modernisation, but also by component price rises. Dell EMC and NetApp top the supplier sales charts

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Cloudian’s $94m new funds to target 100PB-scale operations

  CEO Michael Tso says funding in engineering efforts aims to make sure Cloudian can meet the challenge of object storage deployments growing to hundreds of petabytes

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  StorageCraft launches OneXafe scale-out backup appliances

  Product revamp sees firm launch OneXafe scale-out secondary and primary storage with ShadowXafe data protection software in backup appliance for physical and virtual environments

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  Cloudian adds Storage Made Easy file-sync-and-share compliance

  Object storage maker adds file-sync-and-share with compliance filters from Storage Made Easy to restrict movement of potentially sensitive data between endpoints and datacentres

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  StorageCraft to unveil unified storage, backup and cloud appliances

  StorageCraft arose as a backup software maker but now plans converged storage, backup and analytics play in a move to unify offering built on core and acquired products

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash

  Two years ago, the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team deployed Pure Storage all-flash arrays in its datacentre and in mobile racks out on the circuit. It’s a bet that has paid off for the racing team

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Nexsan adds Assureon Cloud Transfer for hybrid cloud archiving

  Nexsan archiving appliances add hybrid cloud capability to AWS and Azure cloud for unstructured data, targeting users that want to retain files on-site with cloud access

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality boosts Ring with easy deployment and lower node count

  Object storage maker Scality upgrades software-defined storage to give unified deployment, provisioning and management while cutting minimum nodes required to three

• May 07, 2018 07 May'18

  ASEAN seeks to tame data deluge with object storage

  Led by Singapore and Thailand, the object storage market in Southeast Asia is expected to grow at a double-digit rate in the next few years