Virtual Instruments buys cloud management firm
Virtual Instruments has bought Metricly, the developer of a cloud management tool, for an undisclosed sum.
The company sells Virtual Wisdom, an infrastructure performance monitoring application. With this acquisition, Virtual...
Clumio clambers aboard SaaS backup bandwagon
Clumio, a data protection as a service startup, came out of stealth today. It is touting a cloud-native way of simplifying disaster recovery and contrasts this approach with on-premises...
AWS makes it easier to build and populate data lakes
Amazon has gone live with AWS Lake Formation, a service that can cut data lake set-up from months to days.
Data Lakes are large scale collections of data which are...
Azure IoT Edge runs inside an NGD SSD
Computational storage supplier NGD has embedded the Azure IoT Edge service within its SSDs.
NGD has announced the 32TB Newport SSD in the U.2 (2.5-inch) form factor, twice the capacity...
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...