Huawei adds 5-in-1 scale-out all-flash array to portfolio
Huawei has launched a new all-flash OceanStor Pacific array, the 9920, and revealed some details of its compression and ransomware recovery.
The China-based megacorp competes with the big guns of...
Storage news ticker – September 4
MediaFlux supplier Arcitecta has announced Scale-Out ZFS with Mediaflux, which it reckons "overcomes the scalability limitations of traditional scale-up ZFS systems and empowers customers to handle exponential data growth...
Rubrik buys Laminar to shore up security position
Rubrik has announced its acquisition of Laminar, a data security posture management provider, for an undisclosed amount.
Update: Laminar acquisition price added. 9 April 2024.
It says the combination will integrate...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
Fortra battles misuse of its cyber security tools
The GoAnywhere file transfer product and unsupported versions of Cobalt Strike have been manipulated into malware delivery channels, and the supplier, Fortra, says it is actively working to counteract...
Commvault revenues static as subscriptions soar
Commvault's quarterly revenues have consistently been around $200 million for the past seven quarters as subscription and Software as a Service (SaaS) revenues begin to overtake traditional license sales.
The...
Infinidat reckons it’s bucked storage array sales downturn trend
High-end array supplier Infinidat says bookings bounced 29 percent year-over-year during the first six months of 2023.
The company sells InfiniBox storage arrays with a memory-caching capability that it says...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
Backblaze warns of AI-assisted cyber threats
Humans are often the weakest link in a corporate network and the entry point for ransomware attackers, a factoid that underscores the necessity for persistent vigilance against this growing...
DLP could not prevent Fortra, MOVEit breaches
Data loss prevention (DLP) measures are supposed to prevent data loss yet they did nothing to stop the large scale file exfiltration caused by malware that disrupted the widely...
Cisco and HPE reselling Cohesity Cloud Services
Cisco and HPE, along with their channel partners, have entered into agreements to resell a suite of data protection managed services from Cohesity, using the AWS and Azure clouds.
Cohesity...
Azure MANA smartNIC boosts network speed
Microsoft’s Azure is using MANA smartNICs to accelerate network and storage speed, giving it AWS Nitro-like functions. Users will soon have access to MANA benefits through the upcoming Azure...