Igneous builds cloud-native data protection service atop Amazon S3
Igneous has built a software-only version of its DataProtect backup and archive, using Amazon’s four S3 stores as a file backup target. According to the company this removes the...
Data Domain joins Dell’s Power gang, debuts bigger faster backup arrays
Dell EMC has changed the name of its Data Domain product line to PowerProtect, to coincide with the launch of bigger, faster systems.
Data Domain is Dell EMC’s deduplicating...
Your occasional storage digest, including Dell, IDC on HCI, Intel Optane, Nebulon and more
There are several news items about Intel Optane in this week’s roundup, as Intel’s Optane software ecosystem building efforts pick up. But Cloudera, first.
Cloudera’s cloud data warehouse
Cloudera is now...
Interview with Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev
Veeam’s growth is extraordinary. Founded in 2006, the privately-owned backup vendor said it surpassed $1bn annual revenues in 2018. The company dominates the data protection of virtualized servers...
Your occasional storage digest, including Violin, Lenovo and more
It' s time to listen to some Violin practice and find out about Lenovo file tiering plus a host of news snippets from the storage industry. Read on.
Violin Systems...
Backblaze 7.0
Backblaze today launched BlackBlaze Cloud Backup 7.0. It offers the ability to keep updated, changed and deleted files in its cloud-stored backups forever.
Backblaze is a cloud backup and storage...
Rubrik declares war on Gartner over Data Center Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant
Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha has attacked Gartner’s about-to-be-published Data Centre Backup and Recovery MQ as “seriously flawed” and produced by an analyst who applied to join Rubrik but...
Arcserve’s anguished appraisal of Gartner backup MQ process
It’s not just Rubrik; backup supplier Arcserve also has strong reservations about the validity of Gartner’s Data Centre Backup and Recovery MQ and is considering where else it could...
Your occasional storage digest, including Cohesity, SIOS and SAP
Cohesity grows nicely, SAP heads for the cloud and SIOS can save SAP in the cloud from disaster. Read on.
Cohesity has cracking fy 2019
Secondary storage converger Cohesity claimed a...
Commvault guns for mid-market with Metallic SaaS backup and recovery
Commvault today launched Metallic Backup, a set of cloud-native data protection services targeted at the "most commonly used workloads in the mid-market".
The SaaS-y backup and recovery service is available...
No change in Gartner backup and recovery MQ – and that’s a problem,...
The big news is that there are no significant changes in the Gartner 2019 Data Centre Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant compared to the 2017 edition, and that angers...
Commvault: Containers will enable unified data and storage management
Commvault and its new subsidiary Hedvig anticipate future production use of containers, with unified data and storage management.
CEO Sanjay Mirchandani and his chief storage strategist, ex-Hedvig CEO Avinash Lakshman,...