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Distributed OLAPer Kyligence accelerates core engine, adds real-time data support

Chinese American distributed OLAP startup Kyligence has accelerated its core engine, added real-time analytics, and put storage tiering in place to support more and bigger datasets. The Apache Kylin open-source project was based on an internal eBay development — in Shanghai of all places...

Three go mining for backup gold: Arcserve, Nutanix and Sophos

Arcserve has announced N-Series appliances, delivering integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise customers, thus joining Veeam, HYCU and Commvault,...

Quantum turns the revenue corner as it develops cold Storage-as-a-Service

Quantum grew first quarter fiscal 2022 revenues 22 per cent year-on-year with a high hyperscale customer order rate and a growing backlog...

Qumulo follows Silk and VAST Data — exits hardware business

Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo is exiting the hardware business, adding Supermicro to its hardware supply partners, and betting its SW will lift...

MinIO: the smartphone camera of object storage

MinIO wants to be the smartphone camera of object storage — in that millions of smartphone cameras destroyed the traditional camera industry....

The Uberisation of storage

Having direct control over your own storage assets is a responsibility some organisations view as a regrettable burden. They are attracted to...

Sustained disk drive industry growth alert

Contrary to some analysts’ expectations, the hard disk drive (HDD) industry is now moving to a period of sustained year-on-year capacity, units...

Your occasional storage digest with Ahana, Egnyte, FalconStor and Netlist, Varada and a tad more

A data lake analytics startup springs on to the stage with a fast funding round following its founding (nice alliteration — Ed)....

QLC at SLC speed: NEO Semiconductor’s X-NAND flash speeds up tech

NEO Semiconductor has patented X-NAND tech to accelerate SSD writes fifteenfold, and shrink die sizes. Two patents were awarded on August 5.

Kubernetes storage: SmartX’s IOMesh beats Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS

China-based SmartX has released a preview of its Kubernetes storage software IOMesh, and it outperforms Pure’s Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS on MySQL transactions and latency. The claims are backed...

High-capacity disk ships drive Western Digital revenues to three-year high

18TB nearline disk drives led Western Digital’s revenue charge in its beat-and-raise fourth fiscal 2021 quarter, with gross margin improvements leading to a tripled year-on-year profit increase. Revenues were...

Pensando pulls in more DPU development cash

Data Processing Unit chip startup Pensando has had another $35 million invested in it, completing a C-round fund raise which had previously attracted $145 million in October 2019.  Pensando...

Lenovo unveils new NetApp entry-level all-flash arrays

Lenovo has announced two entry-level all-flash arrays, one with NVMe drives and the other SAS, with a sub-$15,000 starting price. Update: 6 Aug 20321. Justification for Lenovo first to...

Two WekaIO hires: an exec chairman and a president

Furiously fast filesystem startup WekaIO has hired Amit Pandey as Executive Chairman and Jonathan Martin as President, following the abrupt departure of President and Chief Revenue Officer Ken Grohe in May.
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Cohesity fiscal quarter and year blowout — great work, Cohesians

Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron celebrated a standout quarter and fiscal year end in a tweet, but details are nowhere to be found....

Gartner: customers need to prioritise ransomware, and Commvault rules the roost

Gartner’s latest Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions report looks at a dozen vendors and says customers should...

NVIDIA/VMware/Dell Project Monterey server offload early access program

NVIDIA, Dell and VMware have started a Project Monterey Early Access Program so customers can explore whether servers offloaded with NVIDIA’s BlueField-2...