WANdisco delays footwork to raise funds
WANdisco has had to delay completion of its fundraising share placement because it discovered its company registration in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey doesn’t let it issue...
Storage old guard needs to have its cache and eat it too
Comment: Legacy external hardware-based storage suppliers need to adapt to technology threats to their businesses from three incomers – Infinidat, Pure Storage and VAST Data.
Update. Dell PowerMax gen 2...
Researchers devise even faster 3D DRAM
Tokyo Institute of Technology scientists have designed a 3D DRAM stack topped by a processor that they say can provide four times more bandwidth and one fifth of the...
WANdisco raises funds for new dancefloor turn
Ailing WANdisco has pulled off the key event necessary for its recovery – raising $30 million – and is applying to have its share trading suspension lifted.
The replication software...
Storage news ticker – July 4
Data protector Acronis has released its Mid-Year Cyberthreats Report, From Innovation to Risk: Managing the Implications of AI-driven Cyberattacks. It found that there were 809 publicly mentioned ransomware cases...
Cubbit storage is a hybrid of Web2 and Web3
Cubbit uses Swarm technology - a term also used by the DataCore-acquired Caringo - for its object storage technology.We asked the startup more about this, as well as some...
Zesty aims to take on cloud cost control
Israel startup Zesty claims its software can reduce AWS EC2 instance cost by up to 45 percent by automatically managing AWS discount commitments. The Zesty Disk feature, it reckons,...
Dell-commissioned report praises APEX file services speed in AWS cloud
Color us shocked. A Dell-commissioned report has claimed that Dell’s APEX File Storage for AWS is 4.3 times faster writing data than NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS.
Update. NetApp...
Storj claims edge in reducing carbon footprint
Decentralized storage provider Storj has released a research paper claiming its technology can reduce the carbon footprint of storing a TB of data by 66-83 percent when compared against...
WANdisco CEO laments ‘wasted year’
WANdisco has issued preliminary 2022 accounts and they are as bad as expected, with the company taking steps to get recapitalized and move its sales strategy onto a sustainable...
Disruptive innovation? Storage has heard of it
Analysis Every startup has a holy grail shimmering in front of it: the idea of being a disruptive innovator, upsetting the status quo and becoming a new product class,...
Snowflake, Databricks set to collide over AI
The two leading cloud data warehouse and lakehouse suppliers, Snowflake and Databricks, are racing to get the most comprehensive generative AI functions working on their customers’ data sets.
Both offer data...