Snowflake whips ups funding blizzard with Salesforce
Snowflake Computing has taken in $479m in a surprise G-series funding with Salesforce as co-lead investor in the cloud data warehousing startup. The monster $12.4bn valuation is more than...
Your occasional storage digest, (mostly) featuring Couchbase DBaaS service
Slim pickings for this week's enterprise storage round-up. But let's kick off Couchbase making its NoSQL database available as a cloud-based service.
DBaaS for Couchbase surfers
NoSQL database supplier Couchbase...
Is it breakout time for Rubrik and Cohesity? Wikibon suggests it might be
Wikibon’s Cube Insights has looked at large customer spending pattern forecasts in a Data Storage 2020: Icebergs Ahead report. Rubrik and Cohesity are looking good with Nutanix and Pure...
We object: Quantum snaps up Western Digital’s ActiveScale business
What a week for Quantum. It made its first quarterly profit in more than four years. It qualified to get listed on Nasdaq and now it is buying Western...
Cohesity loses cohesion: Rapidly diversifying firm has an identity problem
You thought you understood Cohesity well enough. It supplies hyperconverged secondary storage. It is basically 'doing a Nutanix' on the secondary storage market and converging the file use cases...
Quantum squeezes out first profit in 18 quarters
As well as becoming a listed company again, Quantum has made its first profit in 18 quarters; that’s four-and-a-half years.
Revenues in its third fiscal 2020 quarter were $103.3m, up...
Back on Nasdaq: Quantum exits de-listed underworld
Quantum is returning to listed public company status, courtesy of the Nasdaq exchange, ending an 18 month period of accounting purgatory following wrongful revenue recognition practises by prior management.
The...
Dell EMC’s Secure Remote Services recovers itself from own outage
Secure Remote Services, formerly ESRS, is a “secure, two-way connection between Dell EMC products and Dell EMC Customer Support that helps customers avoid and resolve issues. It "supports Dell...
Dremio: let’s kill all the data warehouses
Using a data warehouse in the cloud is a Band-Aid to make existing data preparation methods for analytics last longer. But this method is plain wrong - so says...
Insight Partners buys Veeam for $5bn
Private Equity firm Insight Partners is acquiring the data protection powerhouse Veeam Software for about $5bn.
Veeam, founded and owned by Russians based in Switzerland, will now become a US...
Commvault tackles endemic under-performance with sales exec refresh
Commvault has appointed APJ and EMEA territory heads, as chief revenue officer Ricardo Di Blasio puts his own hires in the top sales spots. The enterprise data protection vendor...
Acronis and Qumulo join the storage unicorn herd
Research outfit Coldago has updated its Storage Unicorn list, adding data protector Acronis and scale-out filer Qumulo for the first time.
A storage unicorn is a startup or privately-owned...