NetApp claims ‘incumbency is the new cool’ in the AI era
Analysis: NetApp reckons that GenAI inferencing is going to be in widespread use across enterprises and needs to access swathes of connected data – exactly what its intelligent data...
Dremio paddles harder in the growing lakehouse market with product improvements
Unified data lakehouse platform Dremio has unveiled new capabilities that are designed to help its Apache Iceberg-driven lakehouse continue to challenge in the data analytics market.
Dremio global customers include...
Quantum takes wraps off subscription private cloud storage
Nasdaq-listed Quantum Corporation may be having financial reporting problems – facing a stock market de-listing as a result – but it has not gone quiet on the product front.
It...
Arcserve backers bring in new CEO
Arcserve is coming out of a challenging few years with a new CEO and fresh funding.
Arcserve provides UDP backup software, 9000 UDP-powered appliances, SaaS backup of Microsoft 365, Google...
Baffle enables computation on encrypted Amazon RDS and Aurora data
Baffle is providing enterprise-grade data security for Amazon’s RDS and Aurora databases, preventing malware actors from accessing any raw data.
Baffle’s technology encrypts data in the public cloud so that...
Storage news ticker – May 1
SaaS backup startup Alcion founder and CEO Niraj Tolia tweets: "Let me be blunt. On-prem backup is an evolutionary dead end, especially for SaaS services like Microsoft 365."
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Commvault surpasses forecasts with strong subscriber growth
Solid customer and subscription growth sent Commvault quarterly revenues past forecasts and set the scene for continued growth.
Revenues in the quarter, ended March 31, were $232.3 million – 9.7...
Tiger Tech gets a head transplant
Tiger Technology has a new CEO and full-time COO as its founder looks looks to expand the company across four continents: Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.
Tiger Technology provides...
Dell pumps power higher for PowerProtect products
Dell has added faster PowerProtect appliances, enabled PowerProtect to back up all-flash PowerMax arrays, and introduced an AI copilot to help customers use its APEX Backup Services.
The company is...
Commvault extends Cleanroom Recovery to bolster ransomware defense
Recovery from ransomware attacks needs to be tested and Commvault's aiming its Cloud Cleanroom tech at those who are looking for on-demand checks.
The prevalence of business-crippling ransomware attacks means...
Veritas talks up AI-driven data protection capabilities
Veritas has revealed that its NetBackup and Alta Data Protection products include defence against threats from compromised user credentials. An Alta Copilot can also be conversationally guided to identify...
Seagate sells more high-cap drives as it climbs out of disk slump
Disk drive supplier Seagate reported its first profit after five consecutive quarters of losses as major buyers upped their nearline high-capacity drive orders. Broadcom has acquired its ASIC assets,...
Peer Software’s multi-master on-prem, cloud and & cross-cloud replication
Jimmy Tam is Peer Software’s CEO and reckons Peer’s multi-master replication is something that cloud file data services gateways can’t match.
Tam talked about this in a briefing call and...
Cribl data lake starts filling up with firms’ IT and security data
There’s a new data lake service provider in town. Cribl, a data engine for IT and security observability, has announced the launch of Cribl Lake. It’s a “turnkey” data...
Storage news ticker – 19 April 2024
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data for almost two years. Cohesity’s DataProtect and Data Cloud...
Databricks boasts about its fast European growth
Lakehouse supplier Databricks says it has seen over 70 percent year-over-year growth for its EMEA region business in its latest fiscal year, without providing numbers. It is now moving...
Nasuni gets into bed with Microsoft’s Copilot
Nasuni customers can now integrate their data stores and workflows with customized Copilot assistants.
Microsoft’s Copilot is a GenAI chatbot integrated with Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams. Users can...