Amazon Files get CRAB protection
Amazon has added cross-region and cross-account facilities to the AWS Backup facility for AWS FSx -calling this CRAB for FSx.
Amazon FSx enables customers to create secure, durable backups of...
Egnyte deals with Microsoft 365 content sprawl
Microsoft 365's multiple applications may mean there are mini-content silos to manage - which Egnyte now unifies and syncs with Azure Blob storage.
Egnyte is a file sync and share...
Amazon Re:Freeze makes it easier to transfer Glacier vault archives
Amazon has announced the Glacier Re:Freeze serverless service to transfer an entire Glacier data vault to another S3 class such as Glacier Deep Archive.
The idea is to transfer an...
MinIO adds mainstream object storage management features
MinIO, the Kubernetes object storage developer, this week released three management tools that collectively "allow customers to rapidly adopt even the most advanced MinIO capabilities while providing a roadmap...
Rampant Redis Labs rakes in the readies with $2bn valuation
Surging business growth at Redis Labs has helped the real-time cloud database startup to raise $110m at a $2bn-plus valuation, doubling its valuation from August 2020. The company will...
Dell EMC leans on Druva for PowerProtect Backup Service
Dell EMC today officially confirmed backup-as-a-service, built on PowerProtect systems and Druva software.
PowerProtect Backup Service supports SaaS applications like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and other cloud-based workloads, as...
Report: recommendation systems drive AI infrastructure initiatives
Promo What AI initiatives are companies investing in and what’s their underlying infrastructure? According to a new survey, nine in ten companies are experimenting with AI, with Recommendation Systems emerging...
StorMagic branches out into digital asset management
StorMagic has bought the assets of SoleraTec, a small California video storage company - its second acquisition in 12 months.
Update: Hans O'Sullivan comments added. April 1, 2021.
The virtual SAN...
HYCU bags $87.5m in massive A-Series round
HYCU has bagged $87.5m in a huge A-Series funding, in its first capital raise since it was spun out of Comtrade Software in 2018.
CEO Simon Taylor said the company...
Cohesity is now valued at $3.7bn
Investors want to buy $145m of employee-held shares in Cohesity at a valuation of $3.7bn. The new marker represents a 48 per cent jump on April 2020, when Cohesity...
Model9 touts mainframe data services in the cloud
Model9, a storage startup, is parlaying its software that replaces mainframe tape backup into a cloud data services gateway. The company has a big ambition - namely to replace...
Silk: NetApp is slower than us on AWS
Silk, the storage array software vendor, claims its AWS numbers for IOPS, latency and bandwidth are superior to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP performance on the public cloud.
Derek Swanson, Silk...