Challengers Arise to S3 Storage Dominance
When it comes to storing data, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a runaway success. With trillions of files under management spanning many exabytes worth of data, S3 is ...Full Article
Oracle Takes Aim at Public Cloud Heavies, Claims 50% Cost Savings
In an overt attempt to overtake – or at least enter the arena with – the Big Three public cloud services providers, Oracle today unveiled new public cloud offerings ...Full Article
IBM Goes ‘Retro’ For Cloud Data Migration
The rise of streaming analytics, and with it ever-greater volumes of big data in motion, is prompting new ways to "transport" data that is increasing ending up in the ...Full Article
Heptio Looks to Reduce Container Complexity
Startup Heptio announced its latest funding round this week as it seeks to drive application container orchestration deeper into enterprise IT infrastructure by making the technology more accessible to ...Full Article
HPE Reports Q3 Gains Along With Cloud Deal
Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported better-than-expected earnings for its third quarter ending July 31 despite what it described as continued "commodities cost pressures" related to tighter memory supplies for servers. ...Full Article
Why Immutability Should Be a Standard Feature in Cloud Storage
Data is the new gold in our digital society, and the loss of it can cause panic or serious consequences. Recently, I saw an article about the Oakland, CA, ...Full Article
Western Digital Buys Flash Vendor Tegile
Consolidation in the enterprise storage sector continues with Western Digital Corp.'s acquisition of Tegile Systems, a provider of flash and persistent memory storage in datacenters. The deal announced Tuesday ...Full Article
Pivot3 Expands Security, Virtualization Partnerships
Pivot3, the hyper-converged infrastructure specialist, and a trio of partners are joining forces to add workload encryption and other capabilities to its software-defined platform for datacenters. The startup based ...Full Article
IBM Storage Breakthrough Paves Way for 330TB Tape Cartridges
IBM has announced a new record for magnetic tape storage that it says will keep tape storage density on a Moore’s Law-like path far into the next decade. In ...Full Article
