Amazon buys NVMe startup for public cloud

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network | Aug. 6, 2019 FEATURED STORY Amazon scoops up E8 for faster cloud storage Garry Kranz, Senior News Writer Amazon will acquire E8 Storage and deploy its rack-scale flash storage in the AWS public cloud. The move comes two weeks after public cloud rival Google bought file storage software startup Elastifile. (SearchStorage) Advertisement NEWS   NetApp storage adjusts amid slowing demand NetApp said major enterprises have cut spending on storage refreshes, catching the vendor off guard. The hybrid array vendor has revised fiscal year and quarterly revenue downward for NetApp storage. (Storage Soup)   StorOne launches new storage-as-a-service product Combining StorOne's storage services with hardware, S1 as a service provides on-premises storage with a cloudlike subscription service. StorOne designed S1 to improve data protection while reducing costs. (SearchStorage)   Western Digital’s ActiveScale gets a boost The latest ActiveScale object storage update adds asynchronous object distribution for multisite disaster recovery and new workflow automation options for customers that have massive-scale unstructured data storage needs. (SearchStorage)   Hollywood film studio wrangles file data Oscar-winning Tippett Studio has more than a petabyte of active file data and five times that amount archived. This presents a demanding file storage challenge, which Tippett faces with Oracle and Igneous. (SearchStorage) EXPERT ADVICE   How to measure hyper-converged TCO TCO is the metric used to calculate exactly how much a new service costs an organization. Here we take a look at the elements that go into calculating TCO for an HCI environment. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   Where NVMe and flash storage are headed NVMe SSDs have come a long way over the past several years, helping enterprises address increasingly demanding storage requirements. See what industry experts have to say about the technology. (SearchStorage)   NAS or object storage for unstructured data? When looking for the best way to store unstructured data, NAS and object storage are the two primary choices. In this expert answer, we cover the pros and cons of both options. (SearchStorage)   NAS-specific SSDs could mark a storage market shift With a selection of NAS-specific features, the IronWolf 110 SSD from Seagate could bring attention to the NAS environments that SSD vendors have been neglecting. (SearchStorage) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Storage Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Storage Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2019 TechTarget. All rights reserved.