Storage News Ticker – 15 January
Data protector Catalogic released DPX 4.14, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery platform. “People will continue to use tape as their main backup target...
Veeam’s Chief Product Officer resigns
Anton Gostev, Veeam’s Chief Product Officer, has resigned after a near 18-year stint at the company.
Switzerland-based Gostev, who describes himself as “The ultimate startup warrior” in his LinkedIn profile,...
Veeam confirms acquisition of Object First
Veeam has acquired Object First and its Veeam-only backup target appliance products in a near silent transaction, it has confirmed to B&F.A Veeam spokesperson said: “We can confirm the...
Nasuni’s latest exec reshuffle
Andres Rodriguez, the founder and CTO at cloud file services supplier Nasuni, has relinquished his CTO role to Jerry Carter, an ex-Dell VP of Engineering, and new CFO Ross...
Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage
Wasabi has closed a second late-stage funding event to strengthen its AI data cloud storage infrastructure.
It provides cloud storage services that are less expensive than hyperscalers like AWS, Azure,...
Storage news ticker – 12 January
Commvault will be a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe. It ill be a fully featured, independently operated, sovereign cloud backed by...
Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes
Interview. Israeli startup Eon pulled in $127 million in funding in October 2024 for its cloud backup posture management (CBPM) software which turns cloud backups into assets which can...
Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW
Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe the three and set them in an AI inferencing...
DDN says Lustre-based EXAScaler remains central despite Infinia push
After several senior Lustre engineers resigned from DDN to form The Lustre Collective, a consulting-style firm focused on the parallel file system, DDN briefed us on how it sees...
Veeam CTO Niraj Tolia steps back into advisory role
Veeam CTO Niraj Tolia has stepped back from the role and will continue with the company as a strategic advisor.
He is announcing this via a forthcoming LinkedIn post, which...
Lightbits scales virtual SANs past 100 PB
Virtual SAN provider Lightbits has an intelligent control plane to manage clusters of its block storage software instances federated together for 100 PB-plus deployments of Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenShift, and...
Databricks valued at $138B after $4B funding round
Databricks has raised more than $4 billion in an L round of venture funding, valuing the data warehousing and analytics company at $138 billion.
By comparison, competitor Snowflake has a...