Out of the blue Komprise gets $37 million funding raise
File data management startup Komprise has raised $37 million in its first fund raiser since 2019.
Komprise’s Intelligent Data Management (IDM) product manages and monitors unstructured data estates for customers...
Dell OneFS 9.5 is a streamer screamer
OneFS 9.5, the latest PowerScale OS version, provides a claimed 55 percent in streaming data access speed plus cyber resiliency improvements.
PowerScale and the prior Isilon scale-out filers are powered...
Pure Storage unifies global go-to-market team
Pure Storage has confirmed to B&F that it has broken up its specialist regional FlashBlade sales teams amid the creation of a single global go-to-market organization.
FlashBlade is Pure’s scale-out...
The Cloud File Services marketing war
A big battle is brewing. There are two opposing groups of suppliers in conflict. One grouping is formed from the on-premises filers who are adding multi-cloud support to their...
Storage news ticker – January 23
Arcserve launched Unified Data Protection (UDP) 9.0 – a single platform, centrally managed backup and disaster recovery product for every type of workload. It combines data protection, Sophos cyber...
Nasuni to grow bigger by getting deeper into enterprises with new CRO
Nasuni wants growth in its cloud file services offering through a much larger enterprise presence. To that end, it has a new chief revenue officer: Pete Agresta, who comes...
WEKA update jumps onto GCP, scales bigger, and moves data faster
Fast parallel file system supplier WEKA has a Data Platform v4.1 release that adds GCP support, extra scale and faster SMB protocol handling.
The WEKA software can now run on...
WANdisco refines data migration controls
v2.0 software from data replicator WANdisco supports faster migrations, larger datasets, and includes more management features designed to make the data migration process easier and safer.
WANdisco calls its software...
Cloudian pulls in $60m funding to chase growth
Cloudian has raised $60 million in fresh funding - its first round since 2018 - and appointed its first board chairman in a bid to accelerate growth.
The company supplies...
Hitachi Vantara sips mainframe data via Model9
Hitachi Vantara is collaborating with Model9 to feed mainframe data to its HCP and VSP 5000 storage systems and make it available to modern apps running in the hybrid...
VAST Data, Infinidat reportedly amongst 21 storage tech unicorns
There are 21 storage industry startups worth a billion dollars or more – unicorns – according to a CB Insights newsletter.
Update. Note on Coldago's December 2022 storage unicorn list added...
Infinidat on CXL, SMR disk drives and green IT
Blocks & Files spoke to Infinidat CEO Phil Bullinger recently, who gave us some insight into Infinidat's 2022 business and its hopes for 2023. We looked at Infinidat's stance...