Data Protection

Forest fire

Backblaze revenues surge 25 per cent as mid-market strategy pays off

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Cloud storage and backup supplier Backblaze recorded 25 per cent revenue growth in its third calendar 2021 quarter to  $17.3 million. This was the company’s first post-IPO set of results...

Predictions for 2022

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’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the vendor’s strategic...
Storage news

Storage news ticker – December 9

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… Data protector and manager Cohesity has announced a new head of EMEA channels: James Worrall. He was previously VP of EMEA channel at F5 Networks and EMEA channel sales...

Pure takes the high road with throughput-optimised FlashArray models

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Pure Storage has added Ice Lake Xeon grunt to two new high-end FlashArray models built with TLC (3bits/cell) NAND and the PCIe 4 bus, overall delivering up to 80...

Storage news ticker – December 7

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… Data migrator moving into data management Datadobi has released new Starter Packs for DobiMigrate ranging from 1PB up to 7PB. DobiMigrate Starter Packs were originally designed for the lower...

Amazon migrates offline tape data to Glacier with Snowball Edge VTL-in-a-box

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Amazon Web Services suitcase-sized Snowball Edge box can now collect ingest data from tape cartridges and be shipped to an AWS centre for file import into Glacier object storage. The...

Rubrik builds its own ransomware threat hunter

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Rubrik has updated its data protection software with an in-house ransomware threat hunter, a Cloud Vault SaaS archival service built on Azure, extended source data coverage, and faster backups...

Storage news ticker – December 6

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… Now that Backblaze is publicly owned it is getting covered by financial analysts. William Blair’s Jason Ader says its “Computer Backup and B2 services are built on top of...

Two into one: Quantum deduplicates virtual DXi product line with free version

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Quantum has a DXi line of deduplicating backup appliances and its two virtual products have been replaced by a single new one: the V5000, with free and paid-for versions. There...

Storage news ticker – December 1

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… AWS has announced four new storage offerings: S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a storage class that provides retrieval access in milliseconds for archive data — now available as an access...

Quest Software flipped from one private equity owner to another

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Private equity-owned Quest Software, which supplies data management and protection software, has been bought by Clearlake Capital for an undisclosed amount, reported to be $5.4 billion. Quest was started up...

Storage news ticker – November 29

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… Amazon Web Services’ massive virtual and in-person re:Invent is now taking place with lots of announcements expected over the next few days. New CEO Adam Selipsky will be taking the...