Why is there a market for S3 backups and data lake protection?
Cloud-based data lakes store data in cloud object storage and that data needs protecting – that's the whole pitch made by SaaS data protection suppliers such as Commvault, Druva,...
Only 50% of Israel’s startup unicorns are really unicorns: report
Half of Israel’s 2022 tech startup unicorns are no longer worth a billion dollars or more. That’s the conclusion of Viola, an Israeli private equity company, in its 2022...
Storage news ticker – January 5
The co-founding analyst at ESG, Steve Duplessie, has retired, becoming a professional golfer at the Ibis Golf and Country Club in Palm Beach, Florida. He has been a fixture...
Opinion: Online disk archives are just wrong
A question: what’s the difference between nearline disk storage and an active archive system only using disk drives? The answer is none.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word archive thus:...
Storage news ticker – 3 January 2023
Acronis' latest cyberthreats and trends report for the second half of 2022 has found that phishing and the use of MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) fatigue attacks are on the rise....
Trilio hires new CEO amid $17m funding round
Containerized app data protector Trilio has pulled in $17 million in a third funding round and appointed a new CEO.
Former CEO David Safaii becomes executive chairman of the board...
Catalogic protects Azure and GCP VMs against ransomware
Data protector Catalogic has expanded its Guard Mode ransomware protection coverage and now protects virtual machines running in Azure Stack and the Google Compute Engine
Catalogic has its Cloud Backup-as-a-Service...
Back up a minute: Backblaze on SMR, storage tiers, and Web3
Blocks and Files talked to Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of cloud storage supplier Backblaze, well known for providing helpful reports detailing reliability statistics on the drives used in...
Storage news ticker – 9 December
An Arcserve survey found that 40% of UK-based respondents are not re-evaluating and updating disaster recovery plans and ransomware defence as the workforce moves to a remote work model...
Resilience? We’ve heard of it. Forrester data durability study shows Big 3 are ahead
A Forrester Data Resiliency Wave study shows that Commvault is rated ahead of Cohesity and Rubrik, and the three lead all other suppliers. It also gives a measure of...
Atempo foresees structured data explosion
The post 2023 world is going to see an explosion in structured data alongside the flood of unstructured data, at least according to French data manager and protector Atempo.
It...
Cleondris: Unofficial Swiss NetApp skunkworks talks backup and ONTAP
Looking for a niche service perhaps too small for NetApp’s ONTAP engineering crew? Cleondris, a Switzerland-based NetApp skunkworks, might get involved. The firm, which has a big presence in...