Today, Backblaze added new APIS to their B2 Cloud Storage. The company describes the APIs as “S3 Compatible,” meaning applications written for S3 should now work on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage without any new code development. Backblaze was founded in 2007 and offers both a cloud object storage system and an online tool to backup

Red Hat had its annual summit this week and chose to go virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing more and more shows to cancel or try to get their message out through different avenues. Red Hat and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include OpenShift 4.4, OpenShift Virtualization, Advanced Cluster Management for

Today, VAST Data released Universal Storage 3.0. Universal Storage is VAST’s name for their disaggregated, shared everything, (DASE) all-flash server storage architecture. VAST Data (yes, all the letters in VAST are capitalized) released Universal Storage 1.0 as their first product just last year. Vast Data has gone through four rounds of funding since its founding

Today, Alluxio announced a plan to collaborate with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer. Alluxio develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.

Today, Igneous announced that it plans to release a new feature for its DataDiscover software in the middle of next month. Igneous DataDiscover helps teams see and analyze the usage of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). We covered the announcement of Igneous’s first product in 2016. Igneous has two main products, both related to data management and

Today, Micron announced that an open-source project they’d been working is ready for broader adoption. Micron is calling the project HSE for Heterogeneous-memory Storage Engine. HSE provides a modern back-end for databases and other storage applications.

This week, Cisco has announced the General Availability of Intersight for Pure Storage Flash Array Automation. With this initial integration, Intersight seeks to facilitate infrastructure administrators to automate storage and storage-related virtualization tasks through workflows using the Intersight Workflow Designer. Cisco Intersight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure management platform that overcomes the

Today, Amazon Wed Services (AWS) opened a new region, the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. This marks a whopping 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions around the world for AWS. Opening up a new region in South Africa gives developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations the ability to

Today NetApp introduced its vision for a for a software-defined platform, Project Astra. Developed with the Kubernetes community, Astra is said to deliver enterprise class easy-to-consume data services, storage, and application and data portability for stateful applications. NetApp sees this platform working with any Kubernetes distribution on any cloud.