Quantum emerges from accounting hell
Quantum has finally filed corrected financial statements along with its latest quarterly results, and is set to focus on the video and image storage market.
This has cost $33m and...
LucidLink gains Cloudian back end
LucidLink, has combined its technology with Cloudian to provide a high performance object storage system for enterprises.
Customers can replace all but the most demanding HPC workloads in their existing...
HPE buys MapR assets
HPE has scooped up the assets of MapR, the doomed Hadoop vendor, for an undisclosed sum.
MapR ran into severe business problems in its first fiscal 2020 quarter, with customer...
Commvault ‘not pleased’ with sales performance
Data protection heavyweight supplier Commvault has delivered an anaemic set of results for the first 2020 quarter.
Revenues fell eight per cent to $162.2m and the company made a net...
Amazon buys NVMe startup E8
Amazon is buying the NVMe-over-Fabrics startup E8 Storage for $50m-$60m.
The news is reported in the Israeli Globes IT news website and the acquisition price is an estimate.
E8 was...
Western Digital tunes up ActiveScale object storage arrays
Western Digital has updated its ActiveScale object storage arrays, adding larger disks and a faster operating system.
WD sells two ActiveScale systems, the entry-level and modular P100 and the larger...
Google Cloud serverless function object access is four times faster than AWS
AWS S3 is four times slower than Google Cloud Services when serverless functions access object storage.
So says LightStep Research in a report seen by Blocks and Files entitled “How...
Carbonite revenues soar but profits are elusive
Cloud backup storage service provider Carbonite has experienced a sudden CEO change.
Mohamad Ali is leaving the company to become CEO of the International Data Group (IDG). Chairman Steve Munford...
Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio
Storage software supplier Minio reckons that the public cloud and fast object storage will 'squeeze the life out of traditional file and block storage suppliers'.
Chief Marketing Officer...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring AWS, hard drive sales, Red Hat and more
Start your week with some tasty storage snacks, including Amazon offering high-performance computing in its cloud, preliminary IDC disk drive ships for the second quarter, and Red Hat support...
Cohesity cooks up Runbook to automate disaster recovery workload transfers
Cohesity’s Runbook application makes designing, testing and operating a cloud disaster recovery site safer, smoother and speedier. The app helps users visualise the entire DR site startup checklist process...
Druva buys in cloud storage gateway
Druva has added a cloud storage gateway to its AWS-based platform for data protection and management.
The data protection firm acquired the technology through the acquisition this month of Cloudlanes....