Data Protection

Datto founder waves goodbye to his CEO day job

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Austin McChord, the founder of backup service provider Datto, has stepped down as CEO. It's all rather sudden but he is staying on the board and is involved in...

Veeam co-CEO Peter McKay off to ‘new endeavours’

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Data protection powerhouse Veeam has lost its co-CEO Peter McKay, with co-CEO and co-founder Andrei Baranov taking sole ownership of the position. McKay's departure has prompted a reshuffle. Ratmir Timashev,...

Overland Storage survives another day in the Last Chance Saloon

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Remember the tape and disk array vendor Overland Storage and its Tandberg Data subsidiary? It is about to get a new owner - albeit the same owner wearing a...

Druva adds backup to AWS Snowball Edge data transfer appliance

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Druva has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to offer its data protection software on AWS Snowball Edge appliances. Snowball Edge is AWS's dedicated server designed for on-premises use cases. Think...

Overland owner posts deeper loss on lower Q3 revenues

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Sphere 3D, the owner of Overland Storage and Tandberg, and virtualization vendor in its own right, saw revenues decline and losses deepen in its third 2018 quarter. The  company blamed...

All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…

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Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox. We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve  deep...

A stitch in time saves…Veritas mines data to fix appliances before they break

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Veritas appliances are to get much better at looking after their own health, thanks to a clever remote monitoring service. Veritas Predictive Insights uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms...

Your occasional storage digest featuring AWS, Delphix, Druva and NVM Express

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Nibs, niblets, nibbles; brief news items to start the week and give you an appetite for five days of full-tilt action. Let’s see what we have from AWS, Delphix,...
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Unitrends backs up faster. Markets stronger

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Unitrends is touting speed and cloud retention improvements with the introduction of v10.3 software for its Recovery Series and Backup virtual appliances. Joe Noonan, Unitrends VP of product management and...

Your occasional storage digest: Compuverde, Igneous, Quantum, Asigra – and more

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Ok folks,  this week's round up of news from storageland that didn't make the front page.  Shall we begin. Compuverde This firm provides vNAS scale-out NAS software which is used by...

Why do companies use so many backup vendors?

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Who'd a thunk it? Most businesses have two or three backup suppliers and some businesses  have four or more. This was revealed by an Enterprise Strategy Group report; “2018...

While giants sleep. HYCU sneaks into Nutanix and Google Cloud Platform backup

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Enterprise backup is a huge and overcrowded market. But HYCU, a new arrival on the block, thinks it has found a couple of lucrative backwaters that are underserved by...