Predictive analytics technologies have become critical to compete in manufacturing (predicting machine failure), banking (predicting fraud), e-commerce (predicting buying behavior) as well as to address horizontal use cases such as cybersecurity breach prevention and sales forecasting. Using data to predict and prevent IT outages and issues is also a growing best practice—especially as advances in […]
Cloudian Adds Object-Based Storage Platform Monitoring Tool
Cloudian today added a monitoring and observability tool to its object-based portfolio of appliances for storing unstructured data in on-premises IT environments. Jon Toor, chief marketing officer for Cloudian, said HyperIQ provides access to analytics and health checks that enables predictive maintenance, enhances security and optimizes storage utilization. Cloudian is also pledging to extend the […]
Dell Advances Convergence of Compute and Storage
Dell Technologies today launched a revamped midrange storage platform that takes advantage of NVMe interfaces and solid-state drives (SSDs) to deliver 7x the performance of previous Dell EMC PowerStore platforms, in addition to allowing applications to run locally on an instance of a VMware virtual machine. Ben Jastrab, senior manager for storage product marketing at […]
Commvault Deepens Ties With NetApp to Automate Data Protection
Commvault has extended its alliance with NetApp to make it possible to recover files nearly instantaneously from an all-flash memory array. Ranga Rajagopalan, vice president of product management for Commvault, said NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP) from Commvault builds on its backup and recovery software to make it possible to use to NetApp hyperconverged infrastructure […]
Humio Adds Unlimited Ingest Plan to Log Management Service
Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, Humio, a provider of a platform for analyzing log data, has added an unlimited ingest plan to a cloud-based service to make it easier for organizations to retain massive amounts of log data. The unlimited ingest plan for the company’s cloud service extends a similar option […]
Storj Labs Unfurls Decentralized Storage Service
Storj Labs has made generally available a distributed storage platform based on the excess capacity available on devices ranging from servers to individual desktops. Company CEO Ben Golub said the goal is to provide IT organizations with an alternative to storing data inexpensively using storage resources that have been vetted by Storj Labs. At the […]
Stellus Launches Next Generation NAS Platform
Stellus Technologies launched a network-attached storage (NAS) system capable of processing unstructured data at 10 times the speed of existing systems. Based on a software-defined file system written on top of a key-value store, the Stellus Data Platform can be acquired either as an appliance or in the form of a virtual image that IT […]
Moving Things Around: The Acquisition of Protego
I received a note from Protego Labs’ vice president of marketing about Check Point Software acquiring Protego. We see a fair number of acquisition announcements, and usually don’t write about them–though we read them and stay abreast of industry happenings. I used to follow Check Point, and haven’t looked into what they’re doing in a […]
Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps
Cisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices to IT infrastructure. The latest version of the Cisco MDS 9700 platform modules automates tasks such as VSAN configuration, device-alias and zoning configuration. […]
HPE Brings Storage Deeper into DevOps Realm
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today moved to bring storage further into the realm of DevOps by integrating its 3PAR storage systems with VMware vRealize Orchestration software, open source Kubernetes container orchestration software and the Red Hat OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment built on top of Kubernetes. HPE 3PAR storage systems already support Docker containers and the DC/OS […]