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...
StrongBox pivots to enterprise unstructured data management market, and a new name
StrongBox is looking likely to change its name to StrongLink as it pivots away from the high-end cross-silo file and object management market to pursue the broader enterprise market.
This...
Storage News Ticker – November 11
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Cloud backup service supplier Datto reported $157.9 million revenues for calendar Q3 2021, up 20 per cent year-on year, with profits of $13.5 million, up 31 per cent. Tim...
Fourth generation Pure FlashArray//X is coming
Pure Storage says it’s launching another FlashArray system on December 8.
The marketing blurb gushes about “an entirely new level of performance to the FlashArray family, powering the next era...
Druidic Imply launches Shapeshift project for modern analytics
Real-time analytics database startup Imply has unveiled Project Shapeshift — designed to develop a hardware-abstracting, auto-scaling control plane and SaaS service for the open source Apache Druid software on which...
Amazon Cloud can save the world — AWS plays the green card
AWS is proclaiming that businesses in Europe can reduce energy use by nearly 80 per cent when they run their applications on the AWS Cloud instead of operating their...
Pure gets FlashBlade in Equinix colos for fast Azure connectivity
Pure Storage has announced an impressive partnership with Azure for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) storage and compute in the cloud.
Pure, Equinix and Microsoft Azure will deliver cloud-adjacent storage using...