Storage news ticker – January 12
Google Cloud has eliminated data egress fees for customers that quit its service. Amit Zavery, Head of Platform for Google Cloud, blogged: "Google Cloud customers who wish to...
Veeam lays off 300 despite market share growth
Data protection outfit Veeam has reportedly laid off around 300 employees, according to one caught up in the redundancies.
In a post on LinkedIn, Denise Jongenelen, a senior campaign...
Where did the VCs invest storage startup dollars in 2023? (Clue: AI)
Venture Capitalists invested $1.3 billion in 17 storage startups in 2023, yet the bulk of that cash injection went to just four businesses that are weaving AI into their...
Storage news ticker – January 10
Data at Rest (DAR) storage systems provider CDSG, with its DIGISTOR self-encrypting SSD, says the US's National Security Agency (NSA) has certified its Citadel C Series Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA),...
Storage news ticker – January 9
Dell Technologies' annual Global Data Protection Index finds that the financial impact of cyberattacks has more than doubled, averaging $1.4 million. Highlights from the 2024 report include:
Generative AI and...
ExaGrid says 48% of its business now outside of USA
Privately-owned ExaGrid claims to have notched up record bookings and revenue during the final three months of 2023.
Exagrid supplies a two-tier appliance with incoming backups written as-is to...
Tiger Technology takes surveillance storage to the cloud
Tiger Technology has adapted file-tiering-to-the-cloud technology and applied it to surveillance videos, enabling public cloud playback and disaster recovery.
Video surveillance storage needs are growing as more and more cameras...
Cerabyte shows off prototype ceramic archival system
The prototype Cerabyte archival system is a pointer towards a pilot production system with the full product likely storing petabytes of data with faster-than tape access and tape library-class...
Storage news ticker – December 15
Gaidar Magdanurov, president of marketing at Acronis, has made an AI-related prediction about 2024: "As a standard feature in applications, we may see a newfound dependence on AI. Given the...
Inspeere’s peer-to-peer backup storage protects against ransomware
Profile: French startup Inspeere believes a backup stored across six to nine peer sites in encoded and compressed fragments is effectively impervious to ransomware attacks and can meet sovereignty...
Storage news ticker – December 11
The Storage Newsletter reports that Atempo SAS has requested the opening of a judicial recovery procedure to finalize the restructuring of its activities and accelerate its business development. Atempo...
Disk Archive Corporation offers an alternative to LTO
UK-based Disk Archive Corporation, known for its spun-down disk archives, says it now has 350 broadcast and media company customers. Its pitch is that its performance can beat both...