Hey Presto! IBM buys VC-backed SaaS player Ahana
IBM said yesterday it was interested in mergers and acquisitions but we didn’t expect it to move this fast - it has just bought Ahana, which supplies the Presto...
WANdisco probed by UK financial watchdog
WANdisco is the subject of a UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into regulatory statements it made earlier this year that potentially misled investors by over-egging the sales pipeline.
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IBM looks to M&As after pancake-flat Q1
IBM revenues grew just 0.4 percent year-on-year in Q1 2023, held back by its Infrastructure business unit but with storage hardware a bright spot. It sees M&A possibilities ahead...
Storage news ticker – April 19
The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program announced the completion of new school construction in Sierra Leone and Guatemala, in partnership with GoDaddy. The Barbara Junior Secondary School in Sierra Leone...
Equalum talks up its ETL, change data capture-fed, real-time data streamer
Israeli startup Equalum, an ETL company, talked about its tech at a recent IT Press Tour, explaining how it captures database and other changes in realtime and pushes them...
Storage news ticker – April 14
Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems announced GA of the fully-managed 11:11 Managed SteelDome in partnership with SteelDome Cyber. This provides secure, scalable and cost-efficient storage of customers’ unstructured,...
Databricks wheels in Dolly chatbot
Lakehouse shipper Databricks has updated its open-source Dolly ChatGPT-like large language model to make its AI facilities available for business applications without needing massive GPU resources or costly API...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Wall Street analyst Aaron Rakers reckons that AMD’s Pensando DPU adoption will be mostly driven by hyperscale cloud deployments and there is a $5-6 billion total addressable market for...
Storage news ticker – April 5
Sorin Faibish has resigned from his director of product solutions role at block storage migrator Cirrus Data Solutions. He is now a performance engineer at NAS supplier OpenDrives.
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ALTR, an...
Quantum enters storage software with Myriad
Quantum has written a unified and scaleout file and object storage software stack called Myriad, designing it for flash drives and using Kubernetes-orchestrated microservices to lower latency and increase...
WANdisco CEO and CFO step down as chairman becomes CEO
Active data replicator WANdisco’s CEO Dave Richards and CFO Erik MIller have quit, with interim chair Ken Lever running the company. The company said in a statement this morning:...
Storage news roundup – 30 March 2023
Avid's NEXIS | F2 Solid State Drive (SSD) flash storage engine is available now. It accelerates media workflows, including finishing of 4K, 8K and HDR content, color grading, VFX...