HPE storage revenues take a beating, blames pandemic supply chain woes
HPE’s storage revenues slumped 18 per cent to $1bn in its second 2020 quarter ended April 30 as “component shortages and supply chain disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic...impacted...
Your occasional storage digest including Arcserve, Excelero and WekaIO
There's a lot of teamwork going on in data storage land as suppliers piggyback on each other's strengths. We see it with Arcserve and Sophos, WekaIO and Valohai, and...
Rancher Labs branches out with Longhorn K8s storage
Rancher Labs, the Kubernetes management software developer, has moved up the stack with Longhorn, an open source storage solution for containers.
Sheng Liang, CEO of the California startup, said today:...
Clumio debuts free snapshots with Amazon RDS data protection service
Clumio has expanded its AWS service coverage from EBS (Elastic Block Store) to RDS (Relational Database Service).
The SaaS backup startup, which came out of stealth last August, stores EBS...
IBM soups up Spectrum Protect Plus
IBM has extended Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP); a data protection and availability product for virtual environments.
In hybrid clouds, enterprises can deploy IBM Spectrum Protect Plus on premises to manage...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Druva, WekaIO with STACs of benchmarks, and more
This week, Druva helps notebook and desktop users defeat ransomware, and WekaIO feasts on more STAC benchmarks.
Druva gets fiery-eyed
Druva, the backup service vendor, has cut a deal with security...
Zerto provides disaster recovery for containerised apps
Zerto is branching out from disaster recovery of virtual machines to offer general backup services. The company will also cover cloud-native applications with its continuous data protection (CDP) and...
Your occasional storage digest with Samsung, Dell EMC, Nutanix and more
Tom’s Hardware has published a scoop-ette on an 8TB Samsung QVO 870 SSD using QLC (4bits/cell) NAND and produced in the U.2 format. The entry level starts at...
Listen up, Fujifilm. PoINT Systemes already pumps objects to tape storage
Our recent article about Fujifilm’s Object Archive software, which will support object data on its magnetic tape, prompted PoiNT Systemes to get in touch.
The German firm's S3-enabled Archival Gateway...
Four years on, Zerto needs to raise more cash
Zerto, the disaster recovery startup, has raised $53m in equity and venture debt financing. It will use the money to bolster its cash position and on updating its software.
Details...
This week in storage: Teradata in the cloud, WD Zoned SSDs and more
Teradata has become much more serious about working in the public clouds and Western Digital has an NVMe Express-bolstering present for its zoned QLC SSD initiative.
Teradata’s head...
Commvault integrates Metallic backup with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Microsoft and Commvault are to integrate Commvault's Metallic SaaS data protection with Azure Blob Storage and will develop other product integrations with native Azure services.
In a multi-year agreement...