IT infrastructure budgets: Cloud up, On-Prem down
Revenues derived from sales IT infrastructure products to public and private cloud environments grew 9.4 per cent Y/Y in the third quarter of 2020, according to IDC number-crunchers. At...
Spectra Logic: We do Azure now
Spectra Logic has upgraded its StorCycle file lifecycle management software, with V3.3 adding support for Azure, more AWS S3 tiers, and improved workflows.
StorCycle takes ageing files from expensive primary...
Scality secures $20m to smooth the way to profitability
Scality today announced it has bagged $20m in new financing - and said this is enough to fund it to profitability.
The object and file storage startup's CEO, Jerome...
Veritas snaps up HubStor, in DPaaS tech-and-team hire
Scoop! Veritas has bought HubStor, a Canadian backup and archive vendor, gaining itself a SaaS-based data protection development team. Terms are undisclosed.
Ontario-based HubStor was founded in 2015 by CEO...
At exabyte levels, data gravity exerts an enormous pull. This sucks
I spoke recently to Michael Tso, Cloudian CEO, about the consequences of exabyte-level object stores. Exabyte-level data egress from the public cloud could take years, he told me, and...
Your occasional storage digest with Cisco Hyperflex, SoftIron, and more
2021 has started with a bang... but let's talk about data storage. In this week's news roundup we feature Cisco, Backup Assist and SoftIron. Also there are a flurry...
Handbags at dawn for Pure and NetApp: Who you calling a ‘legacy vendor’?
Pure Storage is a struggling legacy vendor while NetApp is powering ahead. So says NetApp in a corporate blog entitled Will the real legacy storage vendor please stand...
Analytics startups Dremio, Starburst and Firebolt draw in dollops of dollars
Data analytics startup Dremio has raised $135m in a D series, taking total funding to $250m, and achieving unicorn status ($1bn+ valuation). Competitor unicorn startup Starburst has pulled in...
Why AWS Outposts is good for Cloudian
Last month I wrote there is an arguable case that AWS Outposts represents an existential threat to the on-premises hybrid cloud storage and server market.
Michael Tso, CEO of Cloudian,...
Storageless storage is the ‘answer’ to Kubernetes data challenges
NetApp and Hammerspace have recently begun talking about 'storageless storage'. No, it's not an oxymoron, but a concept that takes a leaf from the serverless compute playbook.
For NetApp,...
Cloud object storage vendors that compete with Amazon S3
Pricing unpredictability and egress charges are the main problems with Amazon’s S3 object storage, according to GigaOm. But there are plenty of competitive options, the tech analyst firm notes....
What does AWS Outposts mean for on-premises storage vendors?
Amazon late last year launched AWS Outposts, a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, including server, storage, networking, and AWS cloud software services. The appliance is...