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Blocks & Files news and analysis dating back to 2019

Hammerspace builds hybrid storage foundations

Listen up, Fujifilm. PoINT Systemes already pumps objects to tape storage

DDN gives itself a new logo

MayaData launches Kubera; a Kubernetes management service

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Kioxia releases faster SAS SDD – the 24gig PM6

Dell updates Isilon with PowerScale label, fresh hardware and other tweaks

GigaSpaces brings Group PSA mainframe up to speed

Pavilion Data: Our storage array is considerably better than yours

Your occasional storage digest with Samsung, Dell EMC, Nutanix and more

GigaOm: Cohesity, Komprise and Commvault lead unstructured data management pack

Scality’s Zenko cloud data controller gains data moving feature

Infinidat closes mystery funding round

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StorONE touts Optane Flash Array

Huawei, Pure and IBM enterprise storage sales up; Dell, Hitachi, HPE and NetApp are down

Mission-critical computing and HCI: the time has come

NetApp loves Iguazio’s AI pipeline software

Zerto provides disaster recovery for containerised apps

Pure Storage delivers Purity six appeal

Snowflake ‘preps $20bn IPO’

HPE updates Primera and Nimble arrays

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InfiniteIO extends file tiering to Azure

The mainstream all-flash array is an enterprise dead-end, these three startups say

AIMES ‘normalises’ healthcare AI with Pivot 3- controlled GPUs

Commvault gives way to Starboard, shakes up board

Electronic Visualisation Lab sizes GPU resource with Liqid composability

Your occasional storage digest featuring Druva, WekaIO with STACs of benchmarks, and more

IBM soups up Spectrum Protect Plus

Scality claims big savings for hospital data storage

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Fujifilm creates software framework for object storage on tape

Snowflake climbs into embed with Salesforce

NetApp acquires Spot, a ‘game-changing’ cloud compute broker

IBM AI storage supports Nvidia’s A100 GPU powerhouse

Data storage CEOs decry US racism, in response to George Floyd protests

Datadobi gives object lesson in migrating S3 data

Clumio debuts free snapshots with Amazon RDS data protection service

Cloudian object storage gains observability and analytics tool

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Rancher Labs branches out with Longhorn K8s storage

You couldn’t do this already? AWS adds size and bandwidth growth to FSx for Windows File Server

Microsoft works with WANdisco to shift on-premises data lakes to the Azure cloud

Huawei plans 20TB SMR drive for OceanStor Pacific storage array

Your occasional storage digest featuring Couchbase, Delphix, Excelero, Kioxia and Wasabi and more

Dell teases PowerScale unified storage array

Pure earnings beats pandemic, CEO recovers from covid-19

Fujitsu launches scale-out block and object storage

Datera bags OEM deal with Fujitsu

Stellus, a Samsung-backed flash array startup, loses sales head

NetApp revenue decline accelerated by pandemic

Nutanix new customer growth and subscription push rebuffs pandemic

Dell’s OneFS for Google Cloud. What do the competitors think?

Pavilion Data adds S3 object storage to parallel all-flash array

Will NVMe become the universal block storage access protocol?

Infinidat ‘pours NVMe-oF rocket fuel’ on DRAM caching fire

Are DPUs ready for the data centre mainstream?

Your occasional storage digest including Arcserve, Excelero and WekaIO

HPE storage revenues take a beating, blames pandemic supply chain woes

Meet Arrikto and its Rok container storage backup software

Portworx upbeat on container storage revenues

Nutanix snuggles closer to ServiceNow

HPE straps SimpliVity booster to CTERA file services

Dell implants Isilon filers into the Google Cloud

Diamanti’s hyperconverged hardware with offload smarts runs container workloads faster

Pivot3 chops video surveillance HCI costs with Lenovo AMD EPYC 7002 server

Pay less to leave: LucidLink’s AWS egress cost reduction bundle

Veeam teams up with Kasten for containerised app backup

Your occasional storage digest featuring Nvidia, InfiniteIO, Memverge, Nutanix and Sony’s PS5 SSD

Datera completes defensive funding round and lays off staff

Nimbus Data touts ExaFlash One array for ‘dense enterprise workload consolidation’

Dell pours Liqid fuel into AMD EPYC 7442 dragster

Enterprise SSDs are ten times the price of nearline disk drives

Veeam customer numbers carry on growing

StorONE challenges storage array makers to stop hiding prices

Disk drives will still store more than half of the world’s data in 2024

We need you, IT pros. How are you modernizing your databases in a hybrid world?

Samsung hails the rise of ruler SSDs for the data centre

Pandemic hits Commvault revenues

Saganworks creates virtual reality rooms for storing files and folders

Micron raises its NVMe SSD game with two client gumsticks

Scale Computing targets VDI workloads with all-NVMe HCI box

StorageOS reinvents VSAN for containers

Quantum asked to return PPP loan, tells B&F: It is ‘saving American jobs at Quantum’

Reader’s storage digest: Backup, HPC storage, data lakes and more

Infinidat’s founding CEO does a Larry and steps aside

File collaborator Panzura bought by VC firm

Nexsan QLC E32F all-flash array is ‘seven times faster than 10K HDDs’

Intel lets us have a sneaky peek at 144-layer flash and gen 2 Optane plans

HPE plunks AMD EPYC 7002 into remote worker VDI-friendly SimpliVity HCI system

Datrium extends VMware DRaaS to edge and ROBO

Nutanix EMEA staff asked to take two weeks’ unpaid leave

AWS slashes log data search prices with UltraWarm ElasticSearch service

Dell EMC launches PowerStore into converged storage array seas

Cash-rich Cohesity blames pandemic for job cuts

Your occasional storage digest, featuring Pure Storage and others

Backblaze assails Big Three cloud download ‘tax’, slashes S3 prices

Clumio debuts ‘air-gapped’ backup for Microsoft 365

Strong flash performance underpins Western Digital Q3

VAST Data adds SMB support with Universal Storage upgrade

NetApp pushes ‘VDI at scale’ via CloudJumper takeover

Veeam upgrades Microsoft Azure backup

Rubrik delivers faster vSphere backups, quicker Oracle restores and stronger compliance

Toshiba publishes list of consumer HDDs that use shingled magnetic recording