Acronis license validation goes AWOL as company cops to ‘bug in the database software’
Users are reporting problems with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office that effectively invalidate license keys and render the product inoperable.
Cyber Protect Home Office, originally known as Acronis True Image,...
Hitachi Vantara sips mainframe data via Model9
Hitachi Vantara is collaborating with Model9 to feed mainframe data to its HCP and VSP 5000 storage systems and make it available to modern apps running in the hybrid...
VAST Data, Infinidat reportedly amongst 21 storage tech unicorns
There are 21 storage industry startups worth a billion dollars or more – unicorns – according to a CB Insights newsletter.
Update. Note on Coldago's December 2022 storage unicorn list added...
Infinidat on CXL, SMR disk drives and green IT
Blocks & Files spoke to Infinidat CEO Phil Bullinger recently, who gave us some insight into Infinidat's 2022 business and its hopes for 2023. We looked at Infinidat's stance...
Storage news ticker – January 17
Cloud-native distributed, CDC-based data replication platform supplier Arcion announced a real-time integration connector for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE). It claims this enables high-volume database migration and real-time...
BackupLABS aims to protect niche SaaS apps
UK startup BackupLABS intends to protect everyday SaaS apps and not just the big providers.
Users of SaaS applications like Salesforce and ServiceNow need to backup and protect their own...
Commvault prelims forecast revenue downturn
Commvault preliminary results for its third fiscal 2023 quarter ended December 31 indicate a 4 percent revenue decline to $195.1 million with a net loss of $310,000.
President and CEO...
ExaGrid thinks it can be a billion-dollar company
Despite the worldwide economy heading into recession due to COVID, Russian war on Ukraine and inflation, ExaGrid says it has increased its sales in the fourth 2022 quarter, recruited more...
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:...