3+ Months after Launch, Wasabi’s Assault on S3 Said to Be on Plan
David Friend comes across as a modest, unassuming fellow who talks about his start-up storage company, Wasabi, and its technology in an understated, commonsensical kind of way. But make ...Full Article
Investment Magnet Cohesity Launches Hyperconverged Secondary Storage Platform
High performance storage is the strongest growth sector in the advanced scale computing realm – we see this in analyst reports and in last week’s moved by Cray toward ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys Storage Specialist
Open source leader Red Hat continued its buying spree with the acquisition of a data compression software specialist focused on cloud storage. Red Hat said this week its acquisition ...Full Article
AI Makes Inroads into Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is often maligned as a legacy holdover from a previous age, a low-growth market dominated by stodgy software companies out to milk maintenance streams from hapless victims. ...Full Article
Intersect360 Survey Shows Continued InfiniBand Dominance
There were few surprises in Intersect360 Research’s just released report on interconnect use in advanced scale computing. InfiniBand and Ethernet remain the dominant protocols across all segments (system, storage, ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets Storage, Security Upgrades
As more distributed applications are delivered via containers, managing them at scale has become a key requirement. That has spurred extensions of container orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm ...Full Article
Latest NVM Express Spec Stresses Data
The latest release of a non-volatile memory interface and storage protocol emphasizes the enterprise shift to analytics, virtualization and other data-intensive workloads while riding the coat tails of the ...Full Article
Facebook Expected to Move WhatsApp Off IBM SoftLayer
In a potential blow to IBM’s efforts to carve out a major share of the intensely competitive public cloud services market, Facebook is reportedly in the process of moving ...Full Article
AWS Launches Greengrass IoT Service
Amazon Web Services has extended its Internet of Things offerings with the launch a new platform designed to boost computing power for devices at the network edge via its ...Full Article
Flash Storage Thrives as Server Sales Slump
New data points emerged this week indicating that all-flash storage arrays are beginning to make headway in datacenters as server sales continue to decline. Market researcher Dell'Oro Group reported ...Full Article