Short and sweet – DDN opens up about rulers, subscriptions and SCM
DDN is looking favourably at supporting ruler-format flash drives and a subscription business model, but doesn’t think storage-class memory is needed quite yet.
These points came across when we got...
Pure’s great revenue rebound – profits beckoning
Pure has grown third quarter revenues a whopping 37 per cent year-on-year, surging back after last year’s third quarter 4 per cent revenue fall. That was its first negative...
AuriStor breathes life into Andrew File System
Andrew File System developer AuriStor updated attendees at an IT Press Tour briefing about its work on the file system with an HPC and large enterprise customer base dating...
Storage news ticker – November 23
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CDS, which supplies datacentre component monitoring services, announced its Raytrix MVS Insight offering with monitoring of a broad array of server, network, and storage environments and integration with leading ITSM...
Panzura update brings array of power-user features
The second generation of Panzura’ CloudFS SaaS filesystem software, also known as Data Services, introduces two-tier licensing with complementary basic and per-user tiers, functional licensing, high-availability nodes and search...
Fog busters! Data and storage category clarification
My mental data and storage classification landscape has been getting confused and briefings with suppliers made it obvious a refresh was needed.
Going back to the basic block-file-object data types...
Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021
$5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies.
We charted the...
Storage news ticker – November 18
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Acronis announced that 2021 was the best year in its history. Ronan McCurtin, VP sales Europe, Israel and Turkey, said: “This has been a record-setting year in revenue growth...
Hammerspace Global Data Environment’s anti-gravity field for data is ready for the big...
Take a deep breath. Hammerspace, the unstructured data silo-busting supplier, has raised its game to provide a Global Data Environment (GDE) across file, block and object storage on-premises and...
Storage news ticker – November 16
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Backblaze raised $100 million from its November 11 IPO in which it aimed to sell 6.2 million shares in a range set at $15 to $17. They were sold...
Storage news ticker – November 15
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Backblaze is trading publicly after its IPO ran with no fuss. It went public on November 11. A Backblaze blog reads: “It means we have more resources with IPO...
Snowflake rebuts DataBricks’ Snowflake performance comparison as lacking integrity
Snowflake competitor Databricks claimed a TPC-DS benchmark record for its data lakehouse technology and said a study showed it was 2.5x faster than Snowflake. Databricks lacks integrity according to...