Here are a few links to some random news items and other content that I found interesting. You might find them interesting too. Let’s dive in to lucky number 13.
- Pure Storage recently acquired software-defined filer company Compuverde. You can read the press release here. Speaking of Pure Storage, Cody has a great rundown on Pure Storage’s FlashArray NVMe-oF support that you can read here.
- Liking the sound of file in your NVMe-oF? You’ll be happy to know that E8 Storage and ThinkParQ announced a technology partnership to enable the integration of BeeGFS with E8 Storage’s NVMe-oF solution. You can find the press release here.
- Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is now available. Kirsten Stoner has a great write-up on that here.
- All the cool kids are offering Backup-as-a-Service on Google Cloud Platform now. Well, at least Cohesity, Actifio, and HYCU have made announcements to that effect.
- HCI Bench 2.0 is out now. You can read more about that on Charles’s blog here.
- This post from Jess discussing contempt culture is right on the money and recommended reading.
- Anthony will be presenting with Veeam at Cloud Field Day 5 this week. I’m looking forward to checking it out. If you can’t catch it live, the videos are usually posted in a timely fashion.
- This is another great article on the Backblaze blog about 3-2-1 backup strategies in the age of cloud.