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NetApp unveils Project Astra for Kubernetes love-in

NetApp today launched Project Astra, an initiative aimed at developing data lifecycle management for Kubernetes-orchestrated containerised applications. This is to be NetApp’s replacement for the now-cancelled NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS), which did not support other Kubernetes distributions or provide data lifecycle services.

Quantum, a $400m t/o data storage vendor, nabs $10m small business PPP loan

Updated; 17.22 BST, April 22. Quantum statements added. NAICS classification corrected. Quantum, the veteran data storage vendor, has received...

Hitachi Vantara launches all-NVMe E990 flash array

Hitachi Vantara has added a high performance, all-flash E990 array to the VSP storage line, filling a gap between the high-end 5000...

Mainframe demand (again) boosts IBM storage sales

IBM has reported good storage revenue growth in the first 2020 quarter as robust demand for the System z15 mainframe carried DS8900...

Commvault sues Cohesity and Rubrik

Update; April 21, 2020 - Cohesity statement added. April 22, 220 - Rubrik statement added. Commvault has filed suit...

Spacebelt aims to store data in satellites

Cloud Constellation Corporation is building Spacebelt, a data storage service using low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that is claimed to be more secure than any data vault on Earth.

Datera co-founder heads off to pastures new

Datera co-founder Marc Fleischmann has announced his departure from the data storage startup via a LinkedIn posting. In his statement he said he was proud of what he...

Your occasional enterprise storage digest featuring CTERA, Nutanix, OpenIO, StorONE and Veritas

This week's digest covers file-sharing, flash, hyperconverged infrastructure, all-in-one storage, object storage, data protection and supplier responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dive straight in with Nutanix. Nutanix China win

SMR in disk drives: PC vendors also need to be transparent

Western Digital late last week issued a statement in response to the revelation of the company's undocumented use of SMR (Shingled Magnetic Media recording) in 2TB and 6TB WD Red NAS...
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Scaleflux adds hardware compression to computational storage

ScaleFlux has added hardware compression to its computational flash storage drive, effectively doubling capacity and increasing performance by 50 per cent.

Kaminario ports storage software to the public clouds

Kaminario has adapted its VisionOS storage software for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform - and claims it offers cheaper storage and...

VAST Data scores $100m and transforms into a data storage unicorn

VAST Data has completed a $100m funding round during the covid-19 pandemic which values the all-flash array storage startup at $1.2bn.

Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too

Toshiba told Blocks & Files yesterday that its P300 desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording technology (SMR), which can exhibit slow...