VAST Data valued at $3.7bn after $83m cash round
VAST Data has had a fourth funding round, raising $83m to hit a valuation of $3.7bn, a year after raising $100m at a $1.2bn valuation. It doesn't strictly...
Your occasional storage digest with StorONE, Qumulo, WekaIO and Egnyte
Today’s digest features a lot of storage suppliers adding public cloud presence and support to their offerings, such as Actian, DataStax, Qumulo, Rubrik, ScaleOut Software, StorONE, and WekaIO. Read...
Contain yourselves: Scality object storage gets cloud-native Artesca cousin
Scality has popped the lid on ARTESCA, its new cloud-native object storage, co-designed with HPE, that is available alongside its existing RING object storage product.
Artesca configurations start with a...
Your occasional storage digest with Veritas, Seagate, and Tintri
This week's storage digest
Filebase raises $2m to raise decentralised storage game
Filebase has gained $2m seed funding for its geo-replicated object storage cloud that has edge caching and is up to 90 per cent lower cost than equivalent mainstream public...
Why croit thinks Ceph is ‘unbeatable general storage solution’ – and why it will...
Ceph software is a singular data storage technology, as it is open source and offers block, file and object access to data. But it has a reputation of being...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...
Amazon Re:Freeze makes it easier to transfer Glacier vault archives
Amazon has announced the Glacier Re:Freeze serverless service to transfer an entire Glacier data vault to another S3 class such as Glacier Deep Archive.
The idea is to transfer an...
Storage product comparisons on the rack
Analysis. Comparing the performance of storage products is bedevilled by the lack of benchmark testing for the three main storage storage access methods; blocks, files and objects. There are...
MinIO adds mainstream object storage management features
MinIO, the Kubernetes object storage developer, this week released three management tools that collectively "allow customers to rapidly adopt even the most advanced MinIO capabilities while providing a roadmap...
Dell EMC leans on Druva for PowerProtect Backup Service
Dell EMC today officially confirmed backup-as-a-service, built on PowerProtect systems and Druva software.
PowerProtect Backup Service supports SaaS applications like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and other cloud-based workloads, as...
StorMagic branches out into digital asset management
StorMagic has bought the assets of SoleraTec, a small California video storage company - its second acquisition in 12 months.
Update: Hans O'Sullivan comments added. April 1, 2021.
The virtual SAN...