Commvault has a new puppet-master pulling its strings
Commvault has appointed Sanjay Mirchandani, who ran Puppet, as its new President and CEO, and the man is fresh to enterprise data protection and management but full of energy.
Ex-CEO...
Datera gets helpful halfway OEM hug from HPE
HPE this week added Datera, a software-defined and scale-out storage supplier, to its HPE Complete program.
Hang on, HPE already works with Hedvig, another software-defined and scale-out storage supplier....
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
An amassment of storage predictions and announcements
We have four sets of predictions for 2019, followed by 11 brief news items, two customer notes and a CEO promotion at Datto.
Three Archive360 predictions
Archive360 archives data up to...
IBM makes Spectrum Scale play nicely with software containers
IBM has announced Spectrum Scale file system support for containers. The release means that companies building containerised IT environments can use their existing Spectrum Scale storage systems as opposed...
Iguazio builds Google-like Outpost for IoT retail edge
Unlike Amazon's Outpost and Azure Stack, Google has no public cloud on-premises presence. Iguazio says it can provide one for Google customers.
The Israeli start-up claims superstores with multi-branch retail...
Contain yourselves; Kubernetes will defeat public cloud lock-in
Interview Object storage supplier Cloudian tells us IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat is evidence of a sea change in what 'cloud' means. The most effective cloud strategy...
Hurrah! Single container orchestrator plugin interface for storage
Storage suppliers wanting to provide storage to containers can heave a sigh of relief; the Container Storage Interface (CSI) v1.0.0 has been released and is available on GitHub.
It is...
SNIA open-sources CDMI cloud storage standard
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week open-sourced the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) v2.0 standard, with the aim of encouraging the wider storage community to join in...
Sysdig be Nimble, Sysdig be quick…raids HPE for staff hires
Sixteen employee have left the HPE Nimble organisation in just four months, we can reveal.
Thirteen have jumped ship to Sysdig, a well-funded container intelligence startup whose recently-hired CEO is Suresh...
NetApp acqui-hires Kubernetes shop StackPointCloud
NetApp has bought StackPointCloud, a Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider, gaining instant Kubernetes creds and enhancing its multi-cloud capabilities.
StackPoint was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle. It developed a control...
Three startups get cash in their held-out hands
Coincidence? We think not. Sysdig, a container software intelligence startup, followed up its new CEO hire with a $68.5m D-round of funding, taking total cash raised to a tasty...