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...
WANdisco readmitted to AIM stock market
Scandal struck data replicator WANdisco was readmitted to the AIM stock market yesterday after shareholders approved proposals to raise fresh capital via a new share issue.
The company's stock...
DataCore reinvents itself with AI, containers, and edge-first strategy
Analysis: DataCore is actively developing a platform that integrates block- and file-based storage across edge sites, datacenters, and the public cloud. It caters to various applications, including virtual machines,...
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...
Gartner storage hype cycle has selective memory
Comment: Research house Gartner has published its 2023 storage hype cycle, highlighting the evolving landscape of various technologies in the industry, and some have dropped completely out of sight.
The...
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...