Your occasional storage digest, featuring Supermicro going to the poles, Kioxia flash provisioning and...
5G and edge computing are opening up fresh horizons for servers and storage to provide real time processing with machine learning attributes. Supermicro is on the case, while...
Exclusive: Hitachi Vantara makes ‘significant’ layoffs, cites mature global storage market
Updated Hitachi Vantara is making 'significant' workforce reductions, in response to a tough enterprise storage market. The layoffs could number 1500 staff - more than 10 per cent...
Rubrik claims $600m revenue run-rate
Data management startup Rubrik this week said it achieved a $600m annualised gross bookings run rate for the fiscal 2020 year ended January 31.
The company's fy17 total bookings run...
Cohesity branches out data management software to ROBO and the edge
Cohesity has upgraded its data management software to cover remote office - branch office (ROBO) and edge IT sites, in a single environment along with central data centres.
Cohesity's hyperconverged...
Pester power! One big customer prompts Dell EMC PowerProtect systems to work with Actifio
Dell EMC PowerProtect arrays (formerly branded Data Domain) have gained copy data management functionality via Actifio, through a deal prompted by an unnamed customer.
Actifio CMO Brian Reagan told us:...
Snowflake whips ups funding blizzard with Salesforce
Snowflake Computing has taken in $479m in a surprise G-series funding with Salesforce as co-lead investor in the cloud data warehousing startup. The monster $12.4bn valuation is more than...
Your occasional storage digest, (mostly) featuring Couchbase DBaaS service
Slim pickings for this week's enterprise storage round-up. But let's kick off Couchbase making its NoSQL database available as a cloud-based service.
DBaaS for Couchbase surfers
NoSQL database supplier Couchbase...
Is it breakout time for Rubrik and Cohesity? Wikibon suggests it might be
Wikibon’s Cube Insights has looked at large customer spending pattern forecasts in a Data Storage 2020: Icebergs Ahead report. Rubrik and Cohesity are looking good with Nutanix and Pure...
We object: Quantum snaps up Western Digital’s ActiveScale business
What a week for Quantum. It made its first quarterly profit in more than four years. It qualified to get listed on Nasdaq and now it is buying Western...
Cohesity loses cohesion: Rapidly diversifying firm has an identity problem
You thought you understood Cohesity well enough. It supplies hyperconverged secondary storage. It is basically 'doing a Nutanix' on the secondary storage market and converging the file use cases...
Quantum squeezes out first profit in 18 quarters
As well as becoming a listed company again, Quantum has made its first profit in 18 quarters; that’s four-and-a-half years.
Revenues in its third fiscal 2020 quarter were $103.3m, up...
Back on Nasdaq: Quantum exits de-listed underworld
Quantum is returning to listed public company status, courtesy of the Nasdaq exchange, ending an 18 month period of accounting purgatory following wrongful revenue recognition practises by prior management.
The...