Storage drive channel hopping defeats attackers: NexiTech
NexiTech has taken the security idea of frequency-hopping radio systems and applied it to storage drive IO – such that its software hops between drive types to obstruct malware...
Storage news ticker – March 29
ATTO ExpressNVM NVMe Smart Switch Host Adapters and Xinnor Software RAID (xiRAID) are combining to create a RAID system for compute-intensive, high-performance systems. Xinnor xiRAID is a software RAID...
StorONE boss: We’re heading towards an IPO
Gal Naor, StorONE co-founder and CEO, claims the company is growing "very fast" and he wants an IPO, possibly within two years.
Naor was a joint founder of Storwize, the...
Bold claim: Cerabyte says its tech can store data forever with zero energy
Austrian biz Cerabyte claims to have technology that can store data forever and consume no energy. The company says it will be implemented on undefined data carriers and be...
Storage news ticker – 24 March 2023
Acronis researchers have spotted new types of malware and attack vectors such as polymorphic malware and fileless attacks. Many threats use a pure in-memory approach which can be hard...
Cohesity gets OwnBackup technology partnership
Cohesity has set up a technology partnership with OwnBackup which has an established footprint in the Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce and ServiceNow SaaS application backup market.
Update. More partnership details...
OVHcloud must pay damages for lost backup data
A French court has ordered OVHcloud to pay damages to two customers who lost data in the 2021 fire at its Strasbourg datacenter.
The fire occurred in March 2021 and...
Veeam lays off 200 staff
Private equity-owned Veeam has hit the headcount brakes and chopped 200 people in a layoff round.
Update: Veeam added headcount and customer stats. 23 March 2023.
“We have reduced our global...
Most failed disk drives fail just before they hit 3 years’ use, says data...
Secure Data Recovery found that average failed hard drive spun for 25,233 hours before failing. That’s 1,051 days, or two years and ten months.
Failed drive data recovery biz Secure...
Cyber security focused Rubrik admits internal system attacked via Fortra zero-day
Cloud data management and security biz Rubrik has joined the list of companies forced to deal with an attack on its systems by criminals using a Fortra zero-day vulnerability.
Update:...
Storage news collection – 15 March
Aparavi has announced the availability of new connectors to bring its data management tools to SharePoint Server and OneDrive - the sales pitch being that it is helping organizations...
Storage news ticker – 13 March
Data protector and manager Atempo has a partnership with Microsoft’s Azure cloud to migrate unstructured datasets to the Azure cloud using its Miria software. The Azure Storage Migration Program...