Your occasional storage digest, including Cohesity, SIOS and SAP
Cohesity grows nicely, SAP heads for the cloud and SIOS can save SAP in the cloud from disaster. Read on.
Cohesity has cracking fy 2019
Secondary storage converger Cohesity claimed a...
Arcserve’s anguished appraisal of Gartner backup MQ process
It’s not just Rubrik; backup supplier Arcserve also has strong reservations about the validity of Gartner’s Data Centre Backup and Recovery MQ and is considering where else it could...
Rubrik declares war on Gartner over Data Center Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant
Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha has attacked Gartner’s about-to-be-published Data Centre Backup and Recovery MQ as “seriously flawed” and produced by an analyst who applied to join Rubrik but...
Backblaze 7.0
Backblaze today launched BlackBlaze Cloud Backup 7.0. It offers the ability to keep updated, changed and deleted files in its cloud-stored backups forever.
Backblaze is a cloud backup and storage...
Your occasional storage digest, including Violin, Lenovo and more
It' s time to listen to some Violin practice and find out about Lenovo file tiering plus a host of news snippets from the storage industry. Read on.
Violin Systems...
Interview with Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev
Veeam’s growth is extraordinary. Founded in 2006, the privately-owned backup vendor said it surpassed $1bn annual revenues in 2018. The company dominates the data protection of virtualized servers...
Your occasional storage digest, including Dell, IDC on HCI, Intel Optane, Nebulon and more
There are several news items about Intel Optane in this week’s roundup, as Intel’s Optane software ecosystem building efforts pick up. But Cloudera, first.
Cloudera’s cloud data warehouse
Cloudera is now...
Data Domain joins Dell’s Power gang, debuts bigger faster backup arrays
Dell EMC has changed the name of its Data Domain product line to PowerProtect, to coincide with the launch of bigger, faster systems.
Data Domain is Dell EMC’s deduplicating...
Igneous builds cloud-native data protection service atop Amazon S3
Igneous has built a software-only version of its DataProtect backup and archive, using Amazon’s four S3 stores as a file backup target. According to the company this removes the...
Data ingest and backup vendors flock to Pure Storage platform
Pure Storage has teamed up with Cloudian, Komprise and Veritas to offer customers ways of protecting FlashArray data and migrating data to/from FlashBlade.
FlashArray is Pure’s block access flash array...
Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs
Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies’s vice chairman and overall product and operations boss, has stepped away from day-to-day control of the server-to-storage-to-networking-to-protection ISG Group. He passes the baton to EMC...
Acronis is a unicorn with $147m to chomp
Goldman Sachs has led a $147m funding round in Acronis which values the data recovery and protection vendor at more than one billion dollars and gives it unicorn status.
Acronis...