Quest Software flipped from one private equity owner to another
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...
22dot6 adds extra cloudiness to its Valence software
All-singing, all-dancing TASS (Transcendent Abstracted Storage System) supplier 22dot6 has updated its Valence software — making it easier to set up and operate private, hybrid, and public cloud storage.
22dot6...
Storage news ticker – November 26
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An Arcserve announcement appears to have had an embargo breakdown or similar event, as SecurityBrief Asia has put out a story — “Arcserve partners with Google Cloud to deliver...
Storage news ticker – November 23
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CDS, which supplies datacentre component monitoring services, announced its Raytrix MVS Insight offering with monitoring of a broad array of server, network, and storage environments and integration with leading ITSM...
Storage news ticker – November 22
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Datto management believes it is currently the largest pure-play backup software supplier to the MSP market and growing faster than competitors ConnectWise, Kaseya, and N-able. (Thanks to Jason Ader...
Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021
$5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies.
We charted the...
Storage news ticker – November 18
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Acronis announced that 2021 was the best year in its history. Ronan McCurtin, VP sales Europe, Israel and Turkey, said: “This has been a record-setting year in revenue growth...
StorONE jumps on ransomware protection train with fast-recovering backup system
Storage startup StorONE has developed a fast-recovering, ransomware-protecting, flash-to-disk auto-tiering version of its software called S1:Backup.
S1:Backup is a backup target for Commvault, HYCU, Rubrik and Veeam’s data protection software...
Storage news ticker – November 16
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Backblaze raised $100 million from its November 11 IPO in which it aimed to sell 6.2 million shares in a range set at $15 to $17. They were sold...
Storage news ticker – November 15
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Backblaze is trading publicly after its IPO ran with no fuss. It went public on November 11. A Backblaze blog reads: “It means we have more resources with IPO...
VAST Data goes after FlashBlade
High-end, all-flash, enterprise filer supplier VAST Data has appointed George Axberg, a 16-year Dell EMC veteran, as its VP of the Data Protection division.
We’re told he is responsible for...