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Software-defined storage

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Hedvig teams up with Veeam to support scale-out backup appliances

  Scale-out software-defined storage supplier reaches agreement with Veeam for backup software to build clusters of nodes with flash, cloud and block, file and object storage access

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate a growing hyper-converged market

  As hyper-converged system revenues get set to overtake those of converged systems, Dell/VMware and Nutanix are dominating the market for combined server and storage nodes

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Vexata doubles capacity in NVMe flash storage VX family

  NVMe flash storage Vexata maker ups capacity to just under half a PB with 8TB drives, claims near-bare metal performance, and aims at analytics, trading and simulations workloads

• 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 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Technicolor speeds up movie production with Excelero NVMe flash

  Film giant Technicolor had to duplicate workstreams or schedule access to movies being worked on, but Excelero NVMe allows concurrent access to 10 or more workstations at a time

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  IBM adds deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize, and Storwize arrays

  IBM has added data deduplication to Spectrum Virtualize and array products that run it. It has also upgraded array analytics and the cloud version of Spectrum Virtualize

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Nutanix builds hooks to SDN and cloud with Flow, Era and Beam

  Hyper-converged pioneer builds in functionality from acquisitions with Flow software-defined networking, Beam cloud monitoring and Era database provisioning and data protection

• 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

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Dell EMC unveils Isilon scale-out NAS in the Google cloud

  The trend to cloud NAS continues as Dell EMC announces beta phase of Isilon Cloud for GCP that will see fully-featured scale-out NAS available to customers via the Google cloud

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  StorageOS makes hybrid cloud container storage platform generally available

  StorageOS releases tool that allows management of persistent storage for containers that can operate on-premise, in public cloud and hybrid cloud to provide deployment, QoS and protection

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  Security Center of Iceland dumps EMC big iron for StorMagic SvSAN

  Icelandic security company threw EMC VNXe “in the bin” and deployed StorMagic software-defined storage SvSAN to gain 4x boost in IOPS and slashed admin overhead

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  NVMe scale-out NAS: Qumulo P-series targets Isilon and Pure

  Scale-out NAS specialist Qumulo unveils P-series all-flash systems based on NVMe, and aims to be an alternative to high performance NAS hardware from Isilon and Pure Storage

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Pivot3 Cloud Edition adds backup from hyper-converged to AWS

  Hyper-converged infrastructure node maker dips its toes into hybrid cloud operations with Pivot3 Cloud Edition on Amazon Web Services to add cloud backup to HCI

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Nodeum adds clouds to boost tape-to-hybrid-cloud platform

  Belgian startup’s Linux-based storage environment now stretches from on-premise disk, LTFS tape and NAS to hybrid cloud working via AWS and Azure public clouds, with more planned