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Here's a digest of recent storage news to help you keep up with what's going on.
Cohesity
Cohesity is parting with some of the money raised in its recent funding round...
Druva heads Churchward for boardroom advice
Guy Churchward, the former CEO of Data Torrent, has joined back-up vendor Druva as a board-level advisor.
Real time data ingestor Data Torrent withdrew from the fray in May this...
Sphere 3D preps reverse stock split
Sphere 3D, the perennially loss-making business that owns Overland Storage and Tandberg Data, is preparing a stock consolidation with a range from 1:2 to 1:10.
The stock is currently trading on...
Say hello to Archive360’s Azure Data Box file loader
Archive360 says its software can be used to load the Azure Data Box and send large sets of data to Microsoft’s cloud.
The ADB ranges from 100TB of disk drive storage in...
FFS! Umm… Code42’s FFS doesn’t mean what you think it means
Backup supplier Code42 has an endpoint Forensic File Search (FFS) capability to which it has added the ability to monitor certain cloud services.
This is initially available for Google Drive...
Versity Software claims GPL first by open sourcing ScoutFS
Versity Software, an archive software company, has open sourced ScoutFS, a scale-out archiving filesystem. It says this is the first GPL archiving file system released.
ScoutFS is a POSIX-compliant clustered filesystem...
Cock of the X86 systems walk, Dell is killing it
Dell has cemented its position as the world's biggest IT hardware vendor, chalking up significant gains in market share for Q2 and growing revenues 18 per cent on the year...
Imanis Data bets its data management farm on machine learning Backupbot
By Chris Mellor 06 Sep 2018 at 14:57
Imanis Data, the distributed database backup vendor, says it is the first company to introduce an autonomous backup product powered by machine...
Surprise! “So long Rubrik,” says global sales boss
Rubrik's worldwide sales boss has left the company to spend more time with his family.
Mark Smith's tenure as EVP for Global Sales and Business Development at the lavishly funded...
Exagrid wants to hire 50 sales heads
Dedupe to disk backup target array supplier Exagrid wants to hire around 50 field sales-related heads.
It says it's growing and gaining market share in the hyper-converged secondary storage for...
Rubrik goes on boardroom celebrity trophy hunt
Mega-financed data management startup Rubrik has appointed ex-Cisco boss John Chambers as a board advisor.
Chambers, now Chairman Emeritus of Cisco, and founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures, has also...
StorageCraft builds Rubrik-esque system for SMBs
StorageCraft aims to provide single system Cohesity and Rubrik-style enterprise converged scale-out storage and data protection for small and medium businesses.
The company bought SMB object storage startup Exablox in...