Nutanix increases ransomware resistance
Nutanix has hardened ransomware defences cross its hybrid multicloud software stack. The company has made Flow, Files, Objects and Mine more resistant to ransomware, signed up for Microsoft’s Credential...
Datera CEO Guy Churchward resigns: ‘Natural time to move on’
Datera CEO and exec chairman Guy Churchward has resigned, citing health reasons. His colleague chief Product Officer Narasimha Valiveti - known as 'VNR' - has left the company to...
IBM speeds up Cloud Object Storage with LucidLink
LucidLink is to offer a bundled version of Filespaces based on IBM Cloud Object Store.
LucidLink says the bundle can cost less than standard prices from AWS, Azure and...
Pure Storage FlashBlade goes to work with Azure Stack
Gridpro, a Swedish cloud management software vendor, has integrated Pure Storage’s unified file and object FlashBlade array with Azure stack.
Gridpro is the developer of EvOps, a software technology that...
HYCU joins O365 data protection crowd with new SaaS offering
HYCU has launched SaaS-based Backup and Recovery for Office 365. “We see SaaS as a natural extension of the customer’s data estate,” CEO Simon Taylor said today in a...
WekaIO Limitless Data Platform: Old news in new package
WekaIO, the very fast file access startup, this week released the Limitless Data Platform. As far as we can see this packages old news under a new...
Hyperscalers demand tape, Quantum happy to oblige
Quantum’s third fiscal 2021 quarter revenues ended December 31 were $98m, down 5.1 per cent and net income was -$2.7m, down from $4.7m. But Chairman and CEO Jamie Lerner...
DataCore snaps up Caringo for object storage
Datacore has bought the object storage supplier Caringo for an undisclosed amount and will now offer software-defined block, file and object storage.
Caringo customers include BT Television, Department of...
This week in storage climbs aboard Europe’s climate-neutral data centre pact
In this week's data storage news roundup, Dell EMC adds sync replication-based high availability to PowerStore arrays; Delphix adds ransomware protection; and Europe data centre firms aim for climate...
Wasabi bags $27.5m to build out its S3 alternative to AWS
Public cloud provider Wasabi has secured $27.5m in debt finance taking total funds raised to around $140m. The startup will spend the money on infrastructure, including additional data...
Tales from the exabyte storage vault. Tune in for the next episode
Recently, I spoke to Cloudian CEO Michael Tso about the awesome scale and data storage management challenges of exabyte-levels of storage. This prompted me to wonder what an exabyte...
Spectra Logic: We do Azure now
Spectra Logic has upgraded its StorCycle file lifecycle management software, with V3.3 adding support for Azure, more AWS S3 tiers, and improved workflows.
StorCycle takes ageing files from expensive primary...