Snowflake is backed to the tune of $923m. Why are VCs investing so heavily?
Snowflake Computing has taken in $450m in a second 2018 funding round to advance its data warehouse in the cloud business. Total funding now stands at $923m.
I interviewed CEO...
Barracuda praises cloud firewall growth. But what about the other stuff in its kit...
Barracuda Networks wants us to know its firewall business is growing but it is more cagey about the performance of other product lines.
For its fiscal 2019 year, the backup...
Pure Storage goes old school with Veritas alliance
Pure Storage has struck an alliance with old school data protection vendor Veritas to protect FlashBlade and use it as a backup target and also to protect FlashArray with...
Tech Data offers pay-for-use kit
Tech Data is taking a leaf out of the public cloud playbook with a financing program that bundles data centre hardware and software and services into one monthly utility...
Caringo claims object storage speed record. Will show workings next month
Caringo is touting the industry's fastest aggregate S3 throughput performance with the latest release of its Swarm OS software.
The object storage startup says Version 10 delivers 35GB/sec read and...
Igneous debuts DataThings for unstructured data management
Unstructured data management is becoming a major focus for startups and supplier product development is bound to reflect competitive forces and a quest for differentiation.
IDC forecasts that by 2025,...
Datto founder waves goodbye to his CEO day job
Austin McChord, the founder of backup service provider Datto, has stepped down as CEO.
It's all rather sudden but he is staying on the board and is involved in...
Virtual Instruments gives VirtualWisdom a big makeover
Virtual Instruments has released VirtualWisdom 6.0, a major release of its infrastructure performance monitoring product.
V6.0 adds cloud integrations and extended correlation of events across infrastructure elements to better visualise...
Komprise customers granted more cold data storage options
Komprise, the purveyor of file lifecycle management software, has increased the number of cold storage destinations for ageing files and added NetApp Cloud Volumes support.
Komprise Intelligent Data Management 2.9 can...
Hello, Nebulon! 3Par amigos unveil their cloud storage start-up
Four 3PAR alumni led by David Scott have set up Nebulon, a cloud-defined storage company.
Scott was the CEO of 3PAR when it was sold for $2.4bn in 2010 to...
Druva adds backup to AWS Snowball Edge data transfer appliance
Druva has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to offer its data protection software on AWS Snowball Edge appliances.
Snowball Edge is AWS's dedicated server designed for on-premises use cases. Think...
You are not alone. Cloud repatriation is a thing, a good thing, says Cloudian
Michael Tso, co-founder and CEO of object storage supplier Cloudian, thinks the rush to the public cloud is slowing.
The on-premises world has caught up with the public cloud as it...