Storage news ticker – October 17
Cohesity said it thinks most ransomware warranties aren't worth the digital paper they are written on (it doesn't offer such guarantees itself). Many cyber security and data recovery firms...
ExaGrid says it exceeds 3,600 customers in latest quarterly trading update
Privately owned ExaGrid has reported a double-digit growth quarter with its customer count passing 3,600.
This purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) maker was launched 20 years ago and has raised a...
Storage news ticker – October 10
Cloud and backup storage vendor Backblaze has hired Robert Fitt as Chief Human Resources Officer, its first such position. He will lead the company’s strategic advancement for all HR...
Storage news ticker – October 6
Research house IDC has reported that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22.4 percent year-over-year in the second...
Dell adopts Zero Trust security principles
Dell Technologies has announced Zero Trust cybersecurity services along with a Zero Trust Center of Excellence using a US Department of Defense-approved architecture.
The Zero Trust approach is that no...
IBM swallows Red Hat storage products
IBM is deepening its assimilation of Red Hat by adopting two of its open source storage products and moving some Red Hat staff to IBM.
Red Hat is transferring its...
Storage news ticker – September 28
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has launched a company Shareholder Perks Program on the Stockperks app. Stockperks provides shareholder rewards, with more than 20 public companies using the platform to...
Quantum enters reseller deal for Atempo backup
Quantum is to resell Atempo’s Tina backup software combined with its backup appliances and other hardware in product bundles.
Atempo’s Tina (Time Navigator) provides on-premises and SaaS backup/restore of physical...
Storage upstart Storadera talks about its single sheet price list
Profile: Amazon S3 and other S3 cloud storage services have a new competitor: Estonia-based Storadera has come to market armed with a one-line price sheet for its single tier,...
Nodeum scaling up for exabyte environments
Profile: Belgian hierarchical storage manager Nodeum is developing exabyte-scale gen 2 software as it seeks to bolster its channel.
Nodeum software runs on Linux and provides a storage virtualizing control...
Storage news ticker – September 26
Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, a distributed object storage product, is now available to all developers, providing scalable storage with no egress fees. It provides automated migration of data from S3-compatible services to...
Commvault adds malware honeypots to Metallic
Commvault has added ThreatWise malware deception and detection technology to its Metallic SaaS product.
ThreatWise is based on TrapX software acquired by Commvault in January. The idea is to detect...