Salesforce specialist OwnBackup achieves unicorn status
OwnBackup, the backup for Salesforce vendor, has bagged $167.5m at a $1.4bn valuation in a D-series round, taking total funding to $267.5m.
The startup, which was founded in 2012, will...
Qumulo goes big on AWS Marketplace
Qumulo has increased the number of configurations for its scale-out File Data Platform on AWS Market place from seven to 27. The company says it has reduced prices by...
This week in storage climbs aboard Europe’s climate-neutral data centre pact
In this week's data storage news roundup, Dell EMC adds sync replication-based high availability to PowerStore arrays; Delphix adds ransomware protection; and Europe data centre firms aim for climate...
Dell EMC to use Druva for Backup-as-a-Service
Scoop! Dell EMC is in negotiations with Druva to offer the startup's backup as a service and will announce the deal in weeks, according to industry sources.
The...
Wasabi bags $27.5m to build out its S3 alternative to AWS
Public cloud provider Wasabi has secured $27.5m in debt finance taking total funds raised to around $140m. The startup will spend the money on infrastructure, including additional data...
Nutanix goes to work with Google Anthos
Nutanix HCI now supports Anthos, the Google application management platform for customers who run Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) on their own servers.
Anthos also runs on the big three...
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...