Storage news ticker – 10 May
AWS has announced general availability of new storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I4g instances featuring AWS-designed Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs. With up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory,...
Dell PowerStore gets more snapshots than a tourist
Dell is giving its all-flash PowerStore array direct integration with PowerProtect backup appliances, enabling it to provide storage nodes to VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure compute nodes for separate compute and...
Storage news ticker – May 4
Apricorn has announced the release of the USB 10Gbps Aegis NVX, the first Apricorn encrypted device to feature an NVMe SSD inside. The NVX’s high-speed read/write capabilities at 1,000MBps are...
Commvault sees fewer large deals in flat but guidance-exceeding quarter
Commvault's earnings were hit in the last quarter by a degree of large deal buyer reluctance, as revenues flattened.
Update: Financial analysts and earnings call-related information added 3 May, 2023.
Revenues...
Storage news ticker – May 2
Open source data synchronizer Airbyte has a new API, complementing its existing cloud UI, that makes it possible to automate data movement and manage large deployments. Other suppliers can...
Backup and security one and the same for CISOs
Interview The separate IT environments of backup and security are merging to become a single operational area for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). This is the view put forward...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
Rubrik, Zscaler double down on data protection
Rubrik is automating sensitive data file detection and classification and working with Zscaler to stop such files being exported outside an organization’s IT boundaries. Rubrik has also doubled its...
HPE: Alletra is our storage brand to rule them all
HPE says it is trying to simplify its portfolio branding by moving from a multitude of product and service tags to just six.
This will take place over the next three...
IBM looks to M&As after pancake-flat Q1
IBM revenues grew just 0.4 percent year-on-year in Q1 2023, held back by its Infrastructure business unit but with storage hardware a bright spot. It sees M&A possibilities ahead...
Storage news ticker – April 19
The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program announced the completion of new school construction in Sierra Leone and Guatemala, in partnership with GoDaddy. The Barbara Junior Secondary School in Sierra Leone...
Attackers try to shake down WD for eight figures, claim to have 10TB of...
Western Digital internal systems were broken into on April 3, with data exfiltrated and its My Cloud services going offline. Now some individuals claiming to be the attackers are...