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Latticeworks reinvents personal NAS

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Latticeworks claims to have reinvented personal NAS with its WiFi-connected Amber product. The company was founded in 2014 by Dr Pantas Sutarjdada, a co-founder of Marvell and an ex-CTO of...

What the Dell? Qumulo gets on to PowerEdge servers

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Qumulo’s QF2 (Qumulo File Fabric) software is now available on Dell’s PowerEdge R740xd storage server, a 2U 2-socket Xeon Skylake, all-NVMe flash drive system. The QF2 SW is also available...

Did NetApp over-pay buying SolidFire for $870 million?

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Did NetApp pay too much for all-flash array vendor SolidFire? Its latest results prompted financial analysts to update their clients on NetApp’s finances and one* included SolidFire revenues for the...

Igneous: Bye-bye proprietary hardware. Hello data management services

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Igneous Systems has seen the light and is becoming a data management supplier using commodity hardware. In common with other data protection vendors selling proprietary hardware,  Igneous faces strong competition...

Newcomer StorCentric biz buys Nexsan and Drobo

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StorCentric is the brand new home for the Nexsan array and Drobo prosumer storage businesses, having bought them from their current owners. Behind this apparently simple transaction is a tight...

Panzura’s SaaSy global on-prem and public cloud file indexer

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Cohesity has Helios, Rubrik it’s Polaris, Druva its DCP, and now Panzura has Vizion.ai, a SaaS-delivered file data management service. File sync’ and sharer Panzura has developed its Vizion.ai product...

Snowflake gets closer to an IPO with CFO hire

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Date warehousing in the cloud startup Snowflake has hired a CFO. Thomas Tuchscherer starts at once and his CV is interesting; before Prior to Snowflake, he spent eight years as...

NAS metadata accelerator startup InfiniteIO gets $10.3m funding

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InfiniteIO, a startup building a metadata accelerator for NAS arrays, has received $10.3 million B-round funding. It brings total funding to $13.7 million for the 2012-founded startup led by Mark...

Zadara gets ze funding for ze growth

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Zadara, the virtual private storage array startup, has pulled in $25 million in a C-round of funding, to take its total raised past $60 million. The round was led by IGP...

Cock of the X86 systems walk, Dell is killing it

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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...

Qumulo debuts machine learning-driven caching for faster data access

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Improvements in Qumulo’s QF2 software means its products run faster -  20 per cent quicker than Dell EMC Isilon boxes, by one measure. Qumulo has juiced up QF2 with what...

Quantum teams up with Excelero for StorNext speed bump

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Quantum is near-doubling StorNext speed by using Excelero’s NVMESH to provide faster data access than it can deliver on its own. StorNext is a scale out multi-tiered file data management...