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.
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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...
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Acronis goes avidly into security services
Data protector Acronis has introduced a set of cyber services offering a combination of security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, incident...
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is ready for those private moments
Dell Technologies has announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VCDE), a grandly-titled data centre as a service.
This is part of its Dell Technologies Cloud, whereby Dell on-premises infrastructure operate...
Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMworld
Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let's look at some of the products...
A bit of a storage rounder-upper
August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days.
AI-powered personal NAS
Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...