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Here are some storage news stories to round off the week.
Dell EMC storage comes closer to Cloudera
Dell EMC and Cloudera have strengthened their partnership whereby Dell EMC storage is...
Quantum emerges from accounting hell
Quantum has finally filed corrected financial statements along with its latest quarterly results, and is set to focus on the video and image storage market.
This has cost $33m and...
LucidLink gains Cloudian back end
LucidLink, has combined its technology with Cloudian to provide a high performance object storage system for enterprises.
Customers can replace all but the most demanding HPC workloads in their existing...
NetApp warns of big revenue miss as US-China woes bite
NetApp expects a big revenue miss in the first 2020 quarter due to large global accounts spending less in response to the US-China trade dispute and other macroeconomic uncertainties.
The...
Western Digital tunes up ActiveScale object storage arrays
Western Digital has updated its ActiveScale object storage arrays, adding larger disks and a faster operating system.
WD sells two ActiveScale systems, the entry-level and modular P100 and the larger...
Google Cloud serverless function object access is four times faster than AWS
AWS S3 is four times slower than Google Cloud Services when serverless functions access object storage.
So says LightStep Research in a report seen by Blocks and Files entitled “How...
Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio
Storage software supplier Minio reckons that the public cloud and fast object storage will 'squeeze the life out of traditional file and block storage suppliers'.
Chief Marketing Officer...
IBM storage hardware revenues fall in latest quarter
IBM storage hardware revenues fell substantially in its second 2019 quarter - but new high-end storage is coming later this year.
Overall Big Blue’s revenues of $19.2bn were dragged 4.2...
Big US business thinks object storage is big business
More US enterprises intend to buy object storage than unified file/block, SAN and NAS. Almost half are increasing cloud storage and a quarter are bulking upon-premises storage capacity.
This is...
IBM improves file cataloguing, object storage, protects databases in the cloud
IBM has updated Spectrum Discover, object storage and Spectrum Protect Plus products and added the FlashSystem 9100 array to its VersaStack converged infrastructure.
The company made the announcement in a...
IBM puts on its Red Hat and bags some more storage software
IBM closed its massive $34bn Red Hat acquisition yesterday. The Red Hat portfolio includes five open source storage software products. Let's take a closer look.
For starters, there is...
And now we are 10. Scality RINGs the changes
At a press briefing yesterday to mark the company's tenth birthday, Scality co-founder and CEO Jérôme Lecat talked about competition, its roadmap, and a new version of its RING...