Storage news roundup – July 21
Managed infrastructure systems provider 11:11 Systems has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) and will offer customers 11:11 Cloud Backup for Veeam Cloud Connect, 11:11 Cloud Backup for Microsoft...
DataStax goes vector searching with Astra DB
DataStax has tweaked its Astra DB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) by incorporating vector search capabilities in response to the increasing demand for generative AI-driven data storage solutions.
The foundation of vector search...
Hammerspace bags $56.7m in first funding round
Hammerspace, a company that specializes in data orchestration, has recently secured its first external funding round, aiming to boost sales and marketing efforts for its data orchestration product.
Founded in...
Storage news ticker – July 14
Data protector Arcserve notified its users of a critical security vulnerability in its UDP software tracked as CVE-2023-26258. It is present in versions 7.0 to 9.0. Arcserve strongly recommends all...
Storage news ticker – July 10
Apple’s coming iPhone 15 could have a memory range of 256GB, 512GB and 1TB, eliminating the 128GB entry point of the iPhone 14, according to Wells Fargo analyst Aaron...
CloudSoda brings some fizz to data migration
The CloudSoda data-moving-as-a-service product calculates movement costs in dry runs, has multi-tenant support, and supports a wide range of any-to-any data movement sources.
The eponymous product was called SoDA in...
Open source data lakehouse Dremio has a new boss
Open source data lakehouse supplier Dremio has hired ex-Splunk chief cloud officer Sendur Sellakumar as CEO and president.
Dremio was founded in 2015 and has grown rapidly as the need...
WANdisco delays footwork to raise funds
WANdisco has had to delay completion of its fundraising share placement because it discovered its company registration in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey doesn’t let it issue...
WANdisco raises funds for new dancefloor turn
Ailing WANdisco has pulled off the key event necessary for its recovery – raising $30 million – and is applying to have its share trading suspension lifted.
The replication software...
Storage news ticker – July 4
Data protector Acronis has released its Mid-Year Cyberthreats Report, From Innovation to Risk: Managing the Implications of AI-driven Cyberattacks. It found that there were 809 publicly mentioned ransomware cases...
Cloudian sacrifices some snapshots for software update
Object storage supplier Cloudian has released an update to its HyperStore object storage software, version 7.5.1. The new release focuses on improving security, protection, and search capabilities while temporarily...
Storj claims edge in reducing carbon footprint
Decentralized storage provider Storj has released a research paper claiming its technology can reduce the carbon footprint of storing a TB of data by 66-83 percent when compared against...