Data Domain joins Dell’s Power gang, debuts bigger faster backup arrays
Dell EMC has changed the name of its Data Domain product line to PowerProtect, to coincide with the launch of bigger, faster systems.
Data Domain is Dell EMC’s deduplicating...
Igneous builds cloud-native data protection service atop Amazon S3
Igneous has built a software-only version of its DataProtect backup and archive, using Amazon’s four S3 stores as a file backup target. According to the company this removes the...
Data ingest and backup vendors flock to Pure Storage platform
Pure Storage has teamed up with Cloudian, Komprise and Veritas to offer customers ways of protecting FlashArray data and migrating data to/from FlashBlade.
FlashArray is Pure’s block access flash array...
Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs
Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies’s vice chairman and overall product and operations boss, has stepped away from day-to-day control of the server-to-storage-to-networking-to-protection ISG Group. He passes the baton to EMC...
Acronis is a unicorn with $147m to chomp
Goldman Sachs has led a $147m funding round in Acronis which values the data recovery and protection vendor at more than one billion dollars and gives it unicorn status.
Acronis...
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Qumulo updates software
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo has streamed out a set of software updates over the past quarter:
Alternate Data Streams - Increase data access across both...
Cohesity, Veeam and Rubrik join Commvault in Forrester’s backup and recovery premier league
Forrester Research has demoted all the legacy vendors except Commvault in a new report that compares the top 10 storage backup and recovery suppliers.
Joining Commvault at the front...
IBM touts super-fast storage array for z15 mainframe
IBM launched its latest z15 mainframe today and gave it a new high-end all-flash array to play with. This is the DS8900F and it holds more data with...
Cohesity aims to kill copy data management sprawl
Cohesity has entered the copy data management market, farming out space-efficient clones of data sets to developers from its backup store.
The idea is to stop developers having to request...
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Dell EMC Isilon software update
The Isilon ONeFS filer OS has been updated to v8.2.1 and adds hardware accelerated in-line compression and inline...
Scale adds Acronis backup to HCI set-up
Scale Computing, the hyperconverged systems vendor, is OEMing Acronis Backup to add archiving and disaster recovery to its systems.
Scale’s HC3 includes a data protection suite which offers high-availability, backup,...
Commvault buys Hedvig in storage and data management unification play
Commvault is buying Hedvig, a software-defined storage startup, for $225m.
This is a bet on data unification and operational efficiency by Commvault, which cites a Gartner forecast that software-defined storage...