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Here's a digest of recent storage news to help you keep up with what's going on.
Cohesity
Cohesity is parting with some of the money raised in its recent funding round...
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...
Druva heads Churchward for boardroom advice
Guy Churchward, the former CEO of Data Torrent, has joined back-up vendor Druva as a board-level advisor.
Real time data ingestor Data Torrent withdrew from the fray in May this...
WANdisco cloud subs drive sees it take H1’18 revenue hit
Confirming earlier indications WANdisco revenues in the first half of 2018 were $6.6m, down 32 percent on the same period a year ago.
It blames the decline on its transition...
SNIA open-sources CDMI cloud storage standard
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week open-sourced the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) v2.0 standard, with the aim of encouraging the wider storage community to join in...
Integrate all the things! Virtual Instruments goes TAP dancing
Virtual Instruments is setting up a Technical Alliance Program to better sell its products in conjunction with integrated upper stack performance monitoring offerings.
The Virtual Instruments Technology Alliance Programme (VITAP)...
Snowflake adds Microsoft Azure to its data warehouse collection
Snowflake Computing's data warehouse as a service today opens for business to all Microsoft Azure customers, bringing the cloud platform into line with AWS. The news should come as...
Say hello to Archive360’s Azure Data Box file loader
Archive360 says its software can be used to load the Azure Data Box and send large sets of data to Microsoft’s cloud.
The ADB ranges from 100TB of disk drive storage in...
Scality rocks out Zenko, its multi-cloud data controller
Interview: Scality has made Zenko, its multi-cloud data controller, generally available.
Zenko v1.0 is a cloud-native product, available in both open source and enterprise editions. What does it do?
Scality says...
Cohesity responds to allure of Azure with integrations galore
Secondary storage converger Cohesity is cuddling up to Microsoft by integrating its Pegasus v6.1 backup software with Office 365 Exchange Online and adding support for Azure Data Box.
The Office...
Wasabi secures war chest for cloud storage world domination
Cloud storage startup Wasabi has completed a huge funding round - $68 million, coming after $8.9m and $10.8m A and B-rounds last year. It’s called a B-round and so will...
NetApp acqui-hires Kubernetes shop StackPointCloud
NetApp has bought StackPointCloud, a Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider, gaining instant Kubernetes creds and enhancing its multi-cloud capabilities.
StackPoint was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle. It developed a control...