Infinidat leads in GigaOm ransomware protection reports
Analyst GigaOm has released two Sonar reports looking at the state of ransomware protection in block and file-based primary storage, with Infinidat first in block and fifth in file,...
50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
IBM has announced its latest TS1170 tape drive with 50TB cartridges, more than 2.5 times larger than LTO-9 cartridges.
IBM, which manufactures the LTO tape drives sold by itself, HPE,...
Storage news ticker – August 16
Ascend.io's CEO/founder Sean Knapp says he believes that the data ingestion market won't exist within a decade, because cloud data players will provide free connectors and different ways to...
Storage news ticker – August 11
Airbyte has made available connectors for the Pinecone and Chroma vector databases as the destination for moving data from hundreds of data sources, which then can be accessed by...
Lenovo picks Cigent data protection for its PC fleet
Lenovo is using Cigent software to hide PC data in secure and invisible vaults to prevent data theft.
The PC maker's ThinkShield Data Defense, based on Cigent software, has prevention-based...
Rubrik buys Laminar to shore up security position
Rubrik has announced its acquisition of Laminar, a data security posture management provider, for an undisclosed amount.
Update: Laminar acquisition price added. 9 April 2024.
It says the combination will integrate...
Gartner sees shifting players in enterprise backup
In the Gartner 2023 Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions Magic Quadrant, leaders appear more tightly grouped than before, with notable changes in other sections of the quadrant.
The Magic Quadrant...
When hyperscalers catch a cold, Quantum sneezes
Storage supplier Quantum has encountered significant challenges due to a decrease in device and media sales, and reduced spending by hyperscale customers.
In the first fiscal quarter of 2024 ending...
Cobalt Iron touts tech to migrate backups to its SaaS vaults
Cobalt Iron has released fresh backup migration tech, Compass Migrator, that it says can shift your legacy IBM backups to Cobalt Iron’s SaaS backup service, with IBM’s Spectrum Protect...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
Org puts nanofiche disks in lunar library in latest ‘billion-year’ archive effort
The Arch Mission Foundation (AMF), a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization, has placed nickel-based Nanofiche disks on the Moon, creating an extraordinary cold analog/digital data archive library. The project aligns...
Fortra battles misuse of its cyber security tools
The GoAnywhere file transfer product and unsupported versions of Cobalt Strike have been manipulated into malware delivery channels, and the supplier, Fortra, says it is actively working to counteract...