News

Object storage

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Dutch group works on digitising collaborator archives created in aftermath of World War 2

  Experiments have been carried out to ascertain the best technology to open up the analogue archives of the Central Archive of Special Justice in the Netherlands.

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Intel previews Optane persistent memory, QLC SSD and even PLC

  Intel sets out roadmap for second-generation Optane persistent memory – between SSD and DRAM – as well as QLC SSD, with talk of PLC (penta-level cell) after that

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Pure Storage APAC CTO talks up storage trends

  Flash-based storage will be around for at least two decades more, while crystal- and DNA-based storage needs a lot more work before becoming mainstream, according to Pure Storage’s CTO for the Asia-Pacific region

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  National Library of Scotland says aye to Scality object storage

  National digitised archives move off Hitachi SANs and Qualstar tape, object storage is embraced and a “no backup” strategy put in place with petabyte-scale Scality S3/file deployment

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Pure Storage sees stellar growth in APAC

  Pure Storage is expanding its footprint in key markets such as Australia, Japan and South Korea, even as it proceeds with caution in China

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Pure Storage outlines growth momentum, bolsters cloud play

  Pure Storage CEO talks up the storage supplier’s competitive edge in a largely stagnant market dominated by larger rivals

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

  Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status

  Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere

• July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19

  StorOne brings leasing for high-performance multiprotocol flash storage

  To make a name for itself in the SME storage market, startup StorOne intends to innovate in technology and its economic approach, with a subscription model for storage

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Veritas bundles NetBackup into Enterprise Data Services Platform

  Backup giant wraps key product into data management wrapper that adds search, index and data classification Information Studio plus InfoScale software-defined storage

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  WekaIO adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS file system

  WekaIO has Dell EMC’s Isilon, NetApp, GPFS and Lustre in its sights with its massively scalable hybrid-cloud NAS file system that also runs in the Amazon cloud

• June 10, 2019 10 Jun'19

  Western Digital aims to help rethink unstructured data storage

  Zonedstorage.io is Western Digital-backed idea to re-architect unstructured data storage with sequential writes to high-capacity media such as SMR HDDs and ZNS NVMe flash

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Gorilla bets on Object Matrix for £1m-plus-per-episode TV shows

  Customers such as Netflix, Amazon and the BBC need to be sure their content is stored safely. Gorilla Post Production chose object storage from Wales-based Object Matrix

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Email firm runs millions of mailboxes with Scality object storage

  Open Xchange switches from OpenStack Swift to Scality to run 13PB of storage for millions of mailboxes across two continents for telco, mobile and TV providers

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Nasuni aims at analytics and fast migration to the cloud

  Cloud NAS and object storage specialist says customers want “Lego blocks” that allow them to build for cloud workloads, and plans cloud migration tools for massive datasets