Storage news ticker – May 18
Cloud and backup storage service provider Backblaze has announced an improved channel program. It will drive joint marketing activities, provide co-branded collateral, and establish market development funds to drive...
Rubrik launches Rubrik Security Cloud
Rubrik has rebranded its products as Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC), an umbrella SaaS offering focused on data security.
The intent is to move on from simple backup and a zero-trust...
Analytics startup Imply raises $100m in Series D funding
Eight-year-old startup Imply has raised $100 million to help grow its real-time analytics business based on Apache Druid software.
Imply’s fourth VC round takes the total raised to $215.3 million....
LucidLink slams foot down after $20m B-round
Almost a year to the day after its $12 million A-round, LucidLink, which presents public cloud object storage as local files, has taken $20 million in B-round funding.
Since the...
NetApp puts cloud-delivered desktops on the Spot
NetApp has announced a desktop-as-a-service product for the world of Windows.
Two years ago NetApp acquired North Carolina-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) player CloudJumper and started to supply the...
GigaOm assesses unstructured data management market
Analyst house GigaOm has researched the unstructured data management supplier field and given its assessment of their respective feature sets and goals.
The report looks at business-focused suppliers of unstructured...
Storage news ticker – May 12
Cloudflare has announced D1, the first cloud storage database for the Workers serverless platform, pitched as enabling developers to build fast, database-backed applications with just a few clicks. It said almost...
Software startup Observe scores $70m funding round
Startup Observe has raised $70 million to fund its growth as an analyzer of machine data that can make it intelligible to admin staff.
CEO Jeremy Burton told us Observe’s...
Pure uses Snowflake to get FlashBlade up close and cloud-adjacent with customers’ co-los
Pure Storage and Snowflake are arranging for Snowflake compute to access and analyze data stored in FlashBlade file+object boxes based in fast access, cloud-adjacent co-los like Equinix datacenters.
Snowflake’s cloud...
Seagate pushes Lyve Cloud into Hammerspace
Seagate and Hammerspace are working together to have Seagate's Lyve Cloud storage-as-a-service (STaaS) and Exos CORVAULT disk box included in Hammerspace's Global Data Environment (GDE).
The GDE provides access to...
Storage news ticker – May 2
Aerospike announced the GA of Aerospike Database 6 – the core engine that powers Aerospike's Real-time Data Platform. Aerospike Database 6 gives developers an environment that supports multiple programming...
Storage facing trillion-row database apocalypse
A new era of large-scale analytics and storage is opening up ahead of us. Ocient, Imply, VAST Data, and WEKA are four startups positioned to store and access data...