Loss-making Snowflake doubles down in dash for growth
It takes Snowflake Computing six months or more from signing up a big enterprise customer for the revenues to start rolling in. Onboarding migration delays are to blame. This...
Your occasional storage digest with Arcserve, StorageCraft, DDN, and more
Old Arcserve and young StorageCraft - both second or third tier data protection companies - are merging. Are they huddling together for warmth or is it a growth play?...
Clumio lays off more staff as it shifts focus to cloud
Backup-as-a-Service startup Clumio has laid off more staff as it focuses on public cloud backup.
Sources told Blocks and Files that two-thirds of its sales force have been laid off...
Delphix and AppDynamics aim to ‘drive application downtime to zero’
Delphix and AppDynamics have integrated their software at the API level to provide automated data delivery and recovery when applications crash. The goal, they say, is to 'drive application...
This week in storage with Backblaze, Kioxia, Index Engines and more
Our IPO sensing organ is twitching strongly following a couple of Backblaze announcements. NAND and SSD fabber Kioxia has made a loss in its latest quarter. Index Engines has...
Delphix: ‘Programmable data infrastructure’ will accelerate your DX
Interview: Delphix, the data virtualization, vendor now describes itself as the industry leader in "programmable data infrastructure". So we asked Jedidiah Yueh, founder and CEO, what that term actually...
Veeam revenues jump 22% in 2020
Data protector Veeam said yesterday annual recurring revenues grew 22 per cent in 2020 and it has more than 400,000 customers under its belt, including 82 per cent of...
Rubrik transitions to new phase as sales and engineering heads leave
Earlier this week, Blocks & Files reported the sudden departure of Rubrik's Chief Revenue Officer Brett Shirk and several senior execs from the company. Since then we learnt that...
Rubrik CRO Brett Shirk ‘has resigned’ – sources
Brett Shirk, Rubrik's Chief Revenue Officer, resigned late last month, according to our sources. The data protection vendor has declined to answer our questions about this.
Rubrik's front bench has...
Relational database is ‘biggest on-prem hunting ground’ for cloud giants
Interview: Chris Buckel is the VP for biz dev at Silk, a data storage startup based in Massachusetts that used to be called Kaminario. In a recent article, ...
Hyperscalers demand tape, Quantum happy to oblige
Quantum’s third fiscal 2021 quarter revenues ended December 31 were $98m, down 5.1 per cent and net income was -$2.7m, down from $4.7m. But Chairman and CEO Jamie Lerner...
Commvault cranks out strong Q3 figures
Commvault's third quarter earnings shows the company's subscription business is taking off. The data management vendor pulled in record revenues of $188m, up seven per cent and $16.7m net...