Big Blue adds mainframe storage anti-ransomware vaults to FlashSystem arrays
As IBM's storage hardware sales continue their long-term decline, Big Blue has announced anti-ransomware Safeguarded Copy for its FlashSystems and on-premises Storage-as-a-Service offerings, with planned public cloud extensions.
The Safeguarded...
Your occasional storage digest with AWS HealthLake, Delphix, Infrascale, XenData and much more
This week we have AWS doing a neat health sector vertical market data lake offering with partners, Delphix bragging about its growth and diversity hiring credentials, and Infrascale offering...
Repeat performance — ExaGrid exceeds revenue record in second consecutive quarter
Deduping backup target appliance suppler ExaGrid has exceeded revenue records for a second consecutive quarter, with revenue up 50 per cent year-on-year and ten per cent sequentially in Q2...
Your occasional storage digest with Backblaze, Infinidat, Robin.io and Windocks
This week’s digest features new cloud backup software and a Chia note from Backblaze, Infinidat suggesting it’s an AIOps supplier, and Robin.io notching up another server deal for its...
Acronis hires GoDaddy exec as CEO to push growth through MSPs harder
Acronis has hired a new CEO to help it ride the twin booms in the market for data and cyber-protection, with a view toward increasing sales through channel partners...
Kaseya VSA vulnerability opens a thousand-plus business doors to ransomware
Kaseya’s VSA remote monitoring and management tool was used as an attack vector to inject ransomware into the systems of fewer than 1,500 end-customers of some 30 managed service...
HPE to acquire cloud disaster recovery startup Zerto
HPE is acquiring IT resilience specialist Zerto for $374 million in cash, and so gaining in-house disaster recovery and general backup products, including cloud-native app protection.
Update: 4 July 2021....
Dell developing data management strategy
A Dell Technologies investor roadshow has revealed plans for Dell to push into the data management market.
Dell Vice-Chairman and COO Jeff Clarke, and EVP/CFO Tom Sweet, made presentations setting...
News fragment: Dell Technologies Capital invests in anti-ransomware startup Calamu
Dell Technologies Capital has invested in Calamu, an anti-ransomware startup with so-called safe harbour technology.
Calamu was founded this year by CEO Paul Lewis and has offices in San Jose...
Your occasional storage digest with MariaDB, HPE, WD, IBM and more
This week we have an improved MariaDB database, HPE’s Alletra array getting faster access, WD announcing a much faster 5G phone-embedded flash drive and IBM producing an all-IBM tape...
PowerFlex, Dell EMC’s other HCI system, supports more Nvidia GPUs and Oracle KVM hypervisor
Dell EMC has updated its PowerFlex software, widening GPU and hypervisor support and improving resiliency and manageability.
PowerFlex is Dell EMC’s scale-out virtual SAN and hyper-converged system with multi-hypervisor support,...
Mr Backup’s Modern Data Protection is a great reference book
W. Curtis Preston, or “Mr Backup” as he is sometimes known because he has encyclopaedic knowledge of data protection matters, has written “Modern Data Protection — Ensuring Recoverability of...