Storage news ticker – February 14
SSD controller firmware developer Burlywood has produced a white paper: "Why Your Concerns About Data Center SSDs are Justified." It claims: "The Burlywood consistently delivers higher ongoing performance,...
Veeam promises to SWAT away ransomware
Data protector Veeam has announced Backup & Replication v12 with 500-plus new features and enhancements, including direct-to-object-storage backup, better immutability, cyber resiliency, hybrid cloud protection and a new ransomware...
Catalogic’s CloudCasa heading for spin-off and fund-raising
Catalogic's CloudCasa kubernetes app SaaS backup service is headed for independence as a standalone business.
Update; various typos fixed - 14 Feb 2023.
Catalogic Software, founded in around 2003, had three product...
Pulumi promises order for DevOps chaos
Pulumi is a startup that has created a multi-language automated Infrastructure-as-Code method of deploying cloud-native apps on any cloud.
It claims its open-source Infrastructure as Code SDK is an easy...
IBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
Analyst house DCIG has produced a list of the biggest market movers and shakers in the world of high-end arrays, yet it doesn't include IBM or HPE branded products,...
Hammerspace boasts of strong topline in 2022
Hammerspace has reported that it has grown its business, with revenue up 300 percent for fiscal 2022 over 2021, although the private company hasn't released any numbers.
The company's Global...
Storage news roundup – February 8
Data analytics startup Blockfenders is today announcing a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round from a range of institutional and angel investors. It’s developing software to help IT and data...
Cohesity locks down Data Cloud in v7 release
Cohesity has released Data Cloud 7.0 with stronger privileged admin account access and better data retention controls.
Cohesity originally launched its DataPlatform management software and DataProtect backup and recovery software...
Lenovo becomes global WEKA reseller and integrator
Server system supplier Lenovo is partnering WEKA to resell its file services software integrated with ThinkSystem servers into high performance AI and analytics workloads for the finance, genomics, life...
NetApp pushes ONTAP into VMware’s Google Cloud Engine
NetApp has collaborated with VMware to integrate its Google Cloud Platform ONTAP-based Cloud Volumes Service with the Google Cloud VMware Engine and announced an Advance storage marketing program with...
Turn up the Volumez: Storage orchestrating startup exits stealth
Israeli startup Volumez is loudly exiting stealth with cloud-based storage orchestrating software now available and the appointment of a highly experienced ex-Global Foundries exec as its new CEO, Amir...
Cloudian sees cloud software going on-prem
Cloudian CEO Michael Tso thinks that the public cloud vendors will have to run their software on-premises because data has gravity. Sometimes compute must come to the data, and...