Tag: Object Storage
Red Hat Ceph 4 Automates Data Management
Data-driven workloads like machine learning and analytics along with the growing demands of distributed application development are driving object storage repositories. Hence, vendors are releasing petabyte-scale options Read more…
Storage in the Exabyte Era
Back in 2010, a petabyte was considered a lot of data for a single company to have. But today, petabyte is child’s play, and the biggest enterprises are managing data stored in the exabyte range. Finding economical way Read more…
Cloudian, Splunk Unchain Compute, Storage
Splunk has decoupled the computing and storage layers of its architecture, providing a way for customers to scale storage independent from computing. The machine data analytics specialist working with storage partner Read more…
Storage and Networking Bytes: PCIe5, OpenShift, and Veeam
Welcome to Storage and Networking Bytes, a new Datanami feature dedicated to covering the latest in storage, networking, and backup technology. In this inaugural column, we’ll take a look at Red Hat’s new software-de Read more…
VMware Widens Its Kubernetes Embrace
VMware continues to move closer to Kubernetes-based containers for managing virtual machines and other cloud infrastructure, reflecting the growing consensus the cluster orchestrator represents a more agile form of virtu Read more…
Big Data Predictions: What 2020 Will Bring
With just over a week left on the 2019 calendar, it’s now time for predictions. We’ll run several stories featuring the 2020 predictions of industry experts and observers in the field. It all starts today with what i Read more…
Seeing the Big Picture on Big Data Market Shift
Hidden from view in the "I want to be data-driven" conversation are the nitty-gritty details of how actually to become a data-driven organization. The grand hope is that artificial intelligence, in the guise of machine l Read more…
MinIO Enjoying Role in Emerging Cloud Architecture
In the post-Hadoop world, object storage systems have become the new favored place to park petabytes of data, with Amazon S3 leading the way among cloud providers. But when organizations are looking for on-premise object Read more…
Google Touts Stable Cloud Storage Prices
Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. Among his first moves was announcing pla Read more…
New Cloudera Plots a Course Toward a Unified Future
The merger of Hortonworks and Cloudera will eliminate competition in the market for big data platforms and create a clear leader in the space. Once the transaction is complete, the new Cloudera will embark upon the chall Read more…
Cloudian Sees $94M for Object Funding
One of Cloudian's customers has 80 petabytes data under management on Cloudian's object storage software, which would qualify as "big data" in most people's dictionaries. Now the San Mateo, California company has another Read more…
The Future of Storage: Software
In the previous story in this series, we looked at innovations occurring in storage hardware. Now it's time to turn our attention to what's going on in storage software, where innovation continues to push the boundaries Read more…
Scality Adds New Investor in Latest Funding Round
Scality, the software-defined object and cloud storage vendor, is extending its push into the multi-cloud data control sector with the closing of a $60 million funding round. The storage management and infrastructure Read more…
Cloudian Buys File Storage Pioneer
The vibrant enterprise storage sector that has spawned a batch of aggressive startups offering all-flash and other advanced storage approaches is also showing early signs of realignment as established players look to exp Read more…
Wrestling Data Chaos in Object Storage
It has become all so apparent that object storage is the cornerstone of the cloud and the resting place for just about any aspect of business, industry, and government data. While the simplicity of the object approach le Read more…
Gartner: Top Storage Vendors Taming Unstructured Data
Object storage and distributed file systems are being enlisted to handle the growing volumes of unstructured data in enterprise datacenters, market analyst Gartner Inc. notes in an annual survey of the evolving storage m Read more…
IBM Object Storage Targets Compliance Data
IBM rolled out on-premises storage options this week targeting the management of regulatory data along with an object storage scaling capability billed as reducing hardware requirements. The company said the object st Read more…
IBM Offers Cloud Storage Via UPS
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 cloud. With an eye on remote users with limited ne Read more…
Scality Targets Multi-Cloud Data Storage
As more enterprises adopt a multi-cloud strategy designed in part to avoid vendor lock-in, cloud storage vendors are responding with tools aimed at controlling and parsing data, especially the unstructured variety, while Read more…
Solving Storage Just the Beginning for Minio CEO Periasamy
Yesterday marked the first day of general availability for the free and open source object storage system from Mino. But as Minio co-founder and CEO AB Periasamy explains, delivering the deceptively simple, S3-compatible Read more…