Three cloud storage gateway startups are running neck and neck
Three cloud storage gateway startups are running neck and neck with near-equivalent funding and no sign of a breakaway by either CTERA, Nasuni or Panzura.
Interestingly, all three were started...
Nasuni reduces price fears from archival storage tiers
Nasuni’s latest Cloud File Services (CFS) update takes care of tiering primary NAS files to secondary/archival storage in the cloud by presenting a single file namespace resource to users...
Quantum teams up with Excelero for StorNext speed bump
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...
Qumulo debuts machine learning-driven caching for faster data access
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...
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...
Zadara gets ze funding for ze growth
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...
NAS metadata accelerator startup InfiniteIO gets $10.3m funding
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...
Snowflake gets closer to an IPO with CFO hire
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...
Panzura’s SaaSy global on-prem and public cloud file indexer
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...
Newcomer StorCentric biz buys Nexsan and Drobo
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...
Igneous: Bye-bye proprietary hardware. Hello data management services
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...
Did NetApp over-pay buying SolidFire for $870 million?
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...