Storage news roundup – February 22
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has announced a preview of Azure HPC Cache Premium Read-Write designed to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency access to files similar to local NVMe storage. It provides lower...
Storage news collection – 17 February
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Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support releases with a support lifetime of up to three years. They are...
Backblaze fans cloud storage fires higher
Backblaze grew its calendar Q4 revenues faster than analysts expected as the cloud storage business outpaced the wider backup sector.
Revenues in the quarter ended December 31 were $22.9 million,...
Storage security toughen-up for compliance and cyberwar in 2023
Sponsored Feature Cybercriminals tend not to discriminate when it comes to the type of data they steal. Structured or unstructured, both formats contain valuable information that will bring them...
Spectra Logic targets on-prem archive market
SpectraLogic has announced a Spectra Digital Archive offering for on-premises archiving using its StorCycle, Black Pearl and tape library products.
StorCycle is SpectraLogic file/object lifecycle management software that scans primary on-premises...
Veeam Backup & Recovery v12 aims at four object storage targets
Cloudian, Object First, Pure Storage and Scality are the four initial object storage targets for version 12 of Veeam Backup and Recovery, which has added the ability to back...
Veeam promises to SWAT away ransomware
Data protector Veeam has announced Backup & Replication v12 with 500-plus new features and enhancements, including direct-to-object-storage backup, better immutability, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud protection and a new ransomware...
Catalogic’s CloudCasa heading for spin-off and fund-raising
Catalogic's CloudCasa kubernetes app SaaS backup service is headed for independence as a standalone business.
Update; various typos fixed - 14 Feb 2023.
Catalogic Software, founded in around 2003, had three product...
Storage news roundup – February 8
Data analytics startup Blockfenders is today announcing a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round from a range of institutional and angel investors. It’s developing software to help IT and data...
Cohesity locks down Data Cloud in v7 release
Cohesity has released Data Cloud 7.0 with stronger privileged admin account access and better data retention controls.
Cohesity originally launched its DataPlatform management software and DataProtect backup and recovery software...
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...