Cohesity pumps out ransomware alerts 24×7 via Helios smartphone app
Cohesity has developed a smartphone app for its Helios management software, to better enable admin staff to respond to external threats in real time.
For instance, the manager of a...
Starboard wants its directors on Commvault’s board
Activist investor Starboard Value has named six proxy directors it wants elected to Commvault’s board and is talking to Commvault's CEO and CFO.
Starboard announced last week it had bought...
Pure and Kasten integrate orchestrators for containerised backup
Pure Storage has teamed up with Kasten to integrate its storage arrays with Kasten's containerised app backup.
The news is detailed in a Pure Storage blog co-authored by Pure principal...
What pandemic? Cohesity raises $250m at blockbuster valuation
Cohesity has completed a $250m series E round that values the data management startup at $2.5bn.
Mohit Aron, CEO and founder, said today in a press release: “Closing a major...
Commvault swallows poison pill to fend off Starboard Value
Commvault has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan in response to Starboard Value taking a 9.3 per cent stake in the company.
Starboard, which revealed its buying spree in...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more
Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically.
Commvault upgrades for cloud and simpler data...
Zerto lays off staff to survive ‘storm’
Zerto, the disaster recovery startup, laid off a "ton of employees" today, according to a source. We asked Zerto about this, using this exact phrase.
In response Zerto sent us...
Starboard Value sinks claws into Commvault
Starboard Value, the prominent activist investor, has accumulated a 9.3 per cent stake in Commvault, the veteran data management vendor.
Starboard has not yet revealed what it wants Commvault...
Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more
Data growth provides the fuel for our main items in this week's data storage news digest. Let's get cracking.
Backblaze cloud storage reaches exabyte milestone
Backblaze, a cloud storage provider, is...
NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage
NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies.
Coldago, a small data storage research firm, surveyed...