BackupLABS aims to protect niche SaaS apps

UK startup BackupLABS intends to protect everyday SaaS apps and not just the big providers. Users of SaaS applications like Salesforce and ServiceNow need to backup and protect their own data as the provider only looks after its own infrastructure. Data protectors such as...

Quobyte storage used for primary genomics data

Case Study. Quobyte unified block, file and object storage is being used by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to store primary life...

Unifabrix CXL memory node boosts core use

Israeli startup Unifabrix demonstrated its Smart Memory Node at SC22 and we wrote an initial account of its technology here. The intent was...

Samsung launches new desktop gumstick SSD

Samsung has produced a new desktop SSD, the PM9C1a, using seventh-generation (176-layer) 3D NAND, with slight performance increases over the prior PM9A1 and...

VAST may embrace GPU processing nodes

VAST Data has been promising a move up the stack from storage to better support AI/ML workloads for some time now. Nothing...

Supermicro storage servers get a boost from Sapphire Rapids

As with HPE’s Alletra 4000, Supermicro has announced Sapphire Rapids-enhanced storage servers that are designed to provide accelerated data access to NVMe...

Commvault prelims forecast revenue downturn

Commvault preliminary results for its third fiscal 2023 quarter ended December 31 indicate a 4 percent revenue decline to $195.1 million with...

NetApp appoints new CMO

NetApp has appointed software and cloud-focused Gabrielle Boko as its new CMO to replace the departing James Whitemore. Whitemore,...

HPE Apollo 4000 servers rebranded with Sapphire Rapids CPUs

HPE has rebranded its Apollo 4000 data storage server line as the Alletra 4000, with two new products: the Alletra 4110 and...

Fourth 2022 quarter hard disk ships slip

TrendFocus’ preliminary disk drive shipment data for the closing 2022 quarter shows a 40 percent-plus annual unit drop with a 25 to 33 percent capacity decline as well. Like the quarter before...

ExaGrid thinks it can be a billion-dollar company

Despite the worldwide economy heading into recession due to COVID, Russian war on Ukraine and inflation, ExaGrid says it has increased its sales in the fourth 2022 quarter, recruited more customers than ever...

Verge.io hires StorONE exec as marketing chief

Virtualized datacenter startup Verge.io has appointed George Crump as its first chief marketing officer. Crump was, until the end of 2022, CMO at StorONE before a series of executive...

Intel leak appears to show last Optane PMem

Details of the "last Optane Persistent Memory" have been shared by Twitter poster HXL who revealed what they claim (and what looks very much like) an Intel slide. Optane...

Micron launches faster U.3 datacenter SSD

Micron has launched a 9400 datacenter NVMe SSD using the PCIe gen 4 interface with great performance and a 30.7TB maximum capacity. Update: 7450 and 9500 positining comment from...
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VMware and Nutanix still dominating HCI market

IDC has resumed putting out hyperconverged system supplier revenue and market share numbers after after a three-quarter gap and not much has...

Why is there a market for S3 backups and data lake protection?

Cloud-based data lakes store data in cloud object storage and that data needs protecting – that's the whole pitch made by SaaS...

Only 50% of Israel’s startup unicorns are really unicorns: report

Half of Israel’s 2022 tech startup unicorns are no longer worth a billion dollars or more. That’s the conclusion of Viola, an...