Druva and Microsoft go public on relationship status… it’s strategic
Druva's relationship with Microsoft has been upgraded to “strategic,” meaning the data security vendor’s tech will be more tightly integrated into Azure.
The firms already work together to provide protection...
Storage news ticker – March 6
Kubernetes app data protector CloudCasa has integrated with SUSE Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension. Users can install CloudCasa agents and manage and monitor backups directly from...
Rubrik touts new cyber-resilience features
Cyber-resilience dominates the latest Rubrik features, with a dozen new protection points in its latest rollout that it says will help detect, repel, and recover from cyberattacks.
The company is...
Storage news ticker – March 4
Cloudian will present two technical sessions and demos of its AI-optimized storage at Nvidia GTC 2025, Booth 219, in the San Jose Convention Center, March 17-21. Michael Tso, CEO...
NetApp misses Q3 expectations as deal slippage hits sales
NetApp results for the third FY 2025 quarter disappointed with a 2 percent year-over-year rise to $1.64 billion following the prior quarter’s guidance-beating 6.1 percent rise to $1.66 billion.
The...
Nutanix sees revenue surge as VMware customers flee Broadcom acquisition
Nutanix recorded a double-digit revenue increase, at least partly ascribed to sales to disgruntled Broadcom VMware customers who jumped ship to its hyperconverged alternative.
Revenue in the second fiscal quarter...
Pure Storage says faster AI storage coming, passes $3B annual sales for the first...
Al-flash array vendor Pure Storage grew revenues at a steady clip in its fourth fiscal 2024 quarter as it went past the $3 billion/year level for the first time,...
Veeam adopts Copilot as it secures Microsoft investment
Veeam is adding Copilot to three of its Microsoft services to provide faster threat detection and accelerated backup restoration. Meanwhile, Microsoft is making an equity investment in Veeam.
Private equity...
Private equity pair make Egnyte majority buy
Cloud content collaborator Egnyte is now majority-owned by a pair of private equity companies.
GI Partners (GI) and TA Associates (TA) have bought a majority investment to “infuse Egnyte with the...
DDN on files, objects and AI training and inference
Interview DDN has been supplying high speed file access with its EXAScaler Lustre parallel file system software for many years. This supports Nvidia’s GPUDirect protocol. It has just announced...
Storage news ticker – February 21
Cloud and backup storage provider Backblaze is partnering with Kandji to deploy Backblaze with zero-touch across a fleet of Macs to back up their data. More info here.
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SaaS backup...
Lenovo reports third straight quarter of double-digit growth
Lenovo reported its third consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth, with all three business units contributing at double-digit levels.
Revenues in the quarter ending December 31, 2024 were $18.8 billion...