Folio Photonics hires engineering VP
Moving the pace of its optical archive technology up a notch, Folio Photonics has hired an engineering VP to build its first commercial product.
Folio Photonics has developed a low-cost...
Cloudian sees cloud software going on-prem
Cloudian CEO Michael Tso thinks that the public cloud vendors will have to run their software on-premises because data has gravity. Sometimes compute must come to the data, and...
Storage minnow Quantum bucks downturn
In the week when NetApp and Commvault reported deflating customer markets, data protector and manager Quantum says its revenue is on the way up, growing 16.6 percent year-on-year to...
Mr Backup spills the beans on 30 years in the storage industry
W Curtis Preston, aka "Mr Backup", has seen a lot over the past three decades in the backup industry.
Mr Backup's LinkedIn profile encapsulates his career, starting out as a...
HYCU wants SaaS vendors to adopt its API for backup
HYCU has found another under-served backup market – SaaS app users – and wants SaaS vendors to write HYCU connectors using its API, instead of doing them itself. Enterprises...
Fourteen K8S backup vendors duke it out on GigaOm’s Radar
GigaOm's Kubernetes data protection Radar report shows three startups – Kasten, Portworx and Trilio, plus Commvault – ahead of ten other suppliers
GigaOm has evaluated 14 suppliers, ignoring their market...
Storage news roundup – January 31
Cyber security and backup storage supplier Acronis has announced a three-year partnership with London's oldest professional football club, Fulham FC. Acronis will provide Fulham with a suite of cyber...
Velero headache for Kasten, Portworx, Trilio
Velero is a startup open source project that thinks it could replace the container data protection technology of Veeam's Kasten business unit, Pure's Portworx, and also Trilio.
Update: Kopia information...
Commvault in the market for new CMO
Commvault has confirmed that Isabelle Guis is leaving her chief marketing officer (CMO) role and a spokesperson said a transition announcement will be made in the coming days.
Isabelle Guis...
Sysdig’s open-source Falco draws on AIOps, data security to fight ransomware
Analysis: Falco, the open-source threat detection engine used by Sysdig, has extensibilty to AIOps and data security and could help combine them for better ransomware threat detection.
Sysdig is a...
Storage news ticker – January 23
Arcserve launched Unified Data Protection (UDP) 9.0 – a single platform, centrally managed backup and disaster recovery product for every type of workload. It combines data protection, Sophos cyber...
Rubrik ARR hits half a billion – IPO ahead?
Rubrik has achieved half a billion in annual recurring revenues and gained a trophy board member, Mark McLaughlin, Qualcomm chairman. Is that an IPO we're smelling?
Rubrik is notable not least...