The vast market penetration of MinIO’s open source object storage software has enabled the company to raise $103 million at a >$1 billion unicorn valuation. The cash will be used for marketing, and not building out a worldwide sales and branch office infrastructure. The adoption statistics for its software almost defy belief: ARR grew by […]| Blocks and Files
Cloudian and WEKA have partnered to add exabyte-scalable backend HyperStore object storage to WEKA’s scale-out, parallel Data Platform for AI filesystem software. The two say their combined products, integrated through WEKA’s tiering function, unifies and simplifies the data pipeline for performance-intensive workloads and accelerated DataOps. It’s managed under a single namespace and – they claim […]| Blocks and Files
Scality has popped the lid on ARTESCA, its new cloud-native object storage, co-designed with HPE, that is available alongside its existing RING object storage product. Artesca configurations start with a single Linux server and then scale out, whereas the RING product requires a minimum of three servers. The Kubernetes-orchestrated ARTESCA container software runs on x86 […]| Blocks and Files
Dell EMC is developing a cloud-native object storage called ObjectScale that will work with Tanzu and provision object storage via Kubernetes. The company will integrate ObjectScale software with the vSAN Data Persistence Platform and so work with VMware Cloud Foundation. ObjectScale will enable object storage to be deployed anywhere that VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu […]| Blocks and Files