Igneous builds cloud-native data protection service atop Amazon S3
Igneous has built a software-only version of its DataProtect backup and archive, using Amazon’s four S3 stores as a file backup target. According to the company this removes the...
Data ingest and backup vendors flock to Pure Storage platform
Pure Storage has teamed up with Cloudian, Komprise and Veritas to offer customers ways of protecting FlashArray data and migrating data to/from FlashBlade.
FlashArray is Pure’s block access flash array...
NetApp takes top billing in Gartner primary array magic quadrant
Gartner’s first combined hybrid and all flash primary array magic quadrant gives higher then expected rankings to NetApp, Pure and Infinidat, including them alongside traditional leaders Dell EMC, HPE and...
Acronis is a unicorn with $147m to chomp
Goldman Sachs has led a $147m funding round in Acronis which values the data recovery and protection vendor at more than one billion dollars and gives it unicorn status.
Acronis...
Pure Storage speeds, enlarges and extends systems, embraces subscriptions and heads for the clouds
Pure Storage has lined up a series of launches for day one of its Accelerate customer event in Austin, Texas that see the company's hardware go faster, go larger,...
Cloudian gets edgy with IT
Cloudian is building ruggedised object storage devices for the IoT edge market in Japan via its EDGEMATRIX subsidiary.
The idea edge device sensors such as video cameras generate enormous data....
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Qumulo updates software
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo has streamed out a set of software updates over the past quarter:
Alternate Data Streams - Increase data access across both...
IBM touts super-fast storage array for z15 mainframe
IBM launched its latest z15 mainframe today and gave it a new high-end all-flash array to play with. This is the DS8900F and it holds more data with...
Nasuni buddies up with Cloudtenna to speed global file search
Nasuni has teamed up with Cloudtenna to improve the search function of Cloud File Services.
The pitch is that Nasuni’s Cloud File Services customers have large and distributed...
Spectra Logic’s StorCycle HSM shunts old data to lower cost storage
Spectra Logic, the tape systems vendor, is entering the storage management market, claiming it solves the problem that most data is stored on the wrong media i.e. expensive and fast...
CTERA’s Media Filer adds cloud scale and sharing
Distributed creative content teams need to share content files from a multiplicity of devices and locations. CTERA’s Media Filer enables that, adding cloud-scale and security to the mix.
CTERA produces...
Amazon drops infrequent access file storage prices
Amazon has cut prices by 44 per cent for Elastic File System (EFS) when using Infrequent Access (IA) with Lifecycle Management.
Amazon EFS customers enable Lifecycle Management and any file...