Igneous debuts DataThings for unstructured data management
Unstructured data management is becoming a major focus for startups and supplier product development is bound to reflect competitive forces and a quest for differentiation.
IDC forecasts that by 2025,...
Names, Faces and Storage Places
Just three moves for you in this edition of Storage People moves.
Let's begin with Guy Churchward, who has become executive chairman at Datera, just two months after joining the startup’s...
Cohesity has yen for Japanese business
Cohesity has recruited Networld, a local IT distributor, to take it into the Japanese market.
The hyperconverged secondary storage vendor talks of an enormous opportunity in the world’s third largest economy and...
Snowflake is backed to the tune of $923m. Why are VCs investing so heavily?
Snowflake Computing has taken in $450m in a second 2018 funding round to advance its data warehouse in the cloud business. Total funding now stands at $923m.
I interviewed CEO...
Teradata moves to new Vantage point as it advises customers to ‘stop buying analytics’
Teradata is exhibiting many signs of a mid-life crisis. The data warehouse vendor has upped sticks, moving its corporate headquarters from Dayton, Ohio to San Diego, given its logo...
Egnyte thinks global with $75m injection from Goldman Sachs
Egnyte has secured $75m in a new funding round - five years after its last round and 18 months after its CEO said he didn’t need more cash.
The rationale...
Your Irregular Storage Digest with Delphix, HTF Market Intelligence, Mimecast, and Korean fabbers
Here's the speed read version: Delphix has picked up a UK TV broadcaster as a customer; a somewhat limited cloud backup market report appears; Mimecast is losing its CFO;...
SNIA open-sources CDMI cloud storage standard
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week open-sourced the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) v2.0 standard, with the aim of encouraging the wider storage community to join in...
Snowflake adds Microsoft Azure to its data warehouse collection
Snowflake Computing's data warehouse as a service today opens for business to all Microsoft Azure customers, bringing the cloud platform into line with AWS. The news should come as...
FFS! Umm… Code42’s FFS doesn’t mean what you think it means
Backup supplier Code42 has an endpoint Forensic File Search (FFS) capability to which it has added the ability to monitor certain cloud services.
This is initially available for Google Drive...
Scality rocks out Zenko, its multi-cloud data controller
Interview: Scality has made Zenko, its multi-cloud data controller, generally available.
Zenko v1.0 is a cloud-native product, available in both open source and enterprise editions. What does it do?
Scality says...
Cohesity responds to allure of Azure with integrations galore
Secondary storage converger Cohesity is cuddling up to Microsoft by integrating its Pegasus v6.1 backup software with Office 365 Exchange Online and adding support for Azure Data Box.
The Office...