Optera Data stores data in fluorescence with spectral holes
University of South Australia researcher Dr Nicolas Riesen is working on research that opens the door to potential archival storage that he believes could be ten times cheaper than...
Data protection vendor market share history and changes
Cohesity-Veritas has the largest share in the data protection market with Veeam in second place, but Veeam is growing its share fastest with Datto-Kaseya and Rubrik in joint second...
Veritas NetBackup data to be stored in Cohesity filesystem and codebase unification coming
Interview: Now that Veritas and Cohesity are one company underneath the Cohesity brand there are is a larger than 12,000 customer base, with 8,000 from Veritas and 4,500 from...
Storage news ticker – February 3
The UK-based part of Rubrik Backup-as-a-Service supplier ADP (Assured Data Protection) is partnering cyber-security, comms and tech MSP Wavenet – the UK's largest independent IT MSP – to provide...
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global.
The deal will give Quantum access to additional equity capital and liquidity. Limited initially...
Data resilience and data portability
SPONSORED FEATURE: Considering it has such a large share of the data protection market, Veeam doesn't talk much about backups in meetings with enterprise customers these days.
Instead, the company...
Scality launches pay-as-you-go ARTESCA storage for Veeam Backup
Scality has an all-new pay-as-you-go licensing program featuring ARTESCA as a software storage backup target for Veeam Backup-as-a-Service offerings. It’s aimed at Scality Cloud & Service Providers (SCSP), meaning...
Market reacts after Commvault beats Q3 forecast
Commvault substantially outperformed its revenue guidance of $245 million by reporting a 21 percent year-over-year rise to $262 million in its third fiscal 2025 quarter, ending December 31.
The...
Commvault latest to cut deal with CrowdStrike for cyber resilience
Commvault has joined other data protection suppliers by integrating CrowdStrike's malware-detecting Falcon XDR into its Commvault Cloud to better detect and respond to cyber threats against its customers.
Commvault Cloud,...
Object First’s business is scaling up
Object First, the Veeam-specific object-based backup appliance startup, says it registered 389 percent bookings growth in 2024 along with a 374 percent increase in transacting partners.
The company was started...
Storage news ticker – January 24
Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry pipeline and intelligent observability, processing up to 1 TB/month...
Dell opts for CrowdStrike to up threat detection game
Dell is trying to beef up data protection services to customers via its security operations centers (SOCs) in a bid to stop cyber criminals that are targeting backup and...