SmartX has released 1.0 of its IOMesh Kubernetes-native storage software. Beijing-based SmartX produces both hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software and IOMesh containerised storage software for Kubernetes environments. The preview version of IOMesh outperformed Ondat (bought by Akamai), Portworx (bought by Pure Storage) and Robin.io (bought by Rakuten), leaving SmartX as a stand-alone K8S storage software supplier. [...]