Storage news ticker – October 28
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The Wall Street Journal says email protector Mimecast is exploring a sale. It reckons Mimecast has a market value of about $4.5 billion and is working with bankers on...
Commvault’s Metallic Security IQ dashboard shows security status and attacks
Commvault has added scanning and advising Security IQ functions to all its Metallic data protection as-a-service products.
Ask a locksmith how to secure your house and you’ll be told to...
iXsystems’ open-sorcery – scale-out file/block/object HCI software
TrueNAS SCALE is an open-source and scale-out hyperconverged infrastructure software system announced by iXsystems, which has more than a million software deployments and more than 10EB managed by its...
Mass-capacity drive demand sends Seagate revenues soaring to the clouds
Seagate has benefitted from an extraordinary secular change in the disk drive market as cloud-scale datacentre demand sends its quarterly revenues up 35 per cent year-on-year — its fourth...
Storage news ticker – October 21
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Weka IO has hired Frederik Schroeder as VP of Strategic Partners and Sean Hiss as the new VP of GTM Operations. Schroeder joins from Hitachi Vantara, where he was VP...
NetApp previews high-end array and adds automatic anti-ransomware weapons to ONTAP
At a virtual Insight 2021 event, NetApp has unveiled planned automated ransomware defences in the latest release of its ONTAP array operating system, along with enhanced data services and...
Spectra Logic takes the Vail – raises attack defences to repel malware boarders
Spectra Logic has made managing petabytes and exabytes of distributed data easier by placing it in a single virtual pool, making its BlackPearl and StorCycle systems more resistant to...
Cohesity adds DRaaS offering, data safety, and plans a virtual Fort Knox to manage...
Data protector and manager, and soon governess, Cohesity has announced a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering along with DataGovern, a data security and governance service, and Project Fort Knox, a virtual...
Musical Chairs: Acronis gets Maritzed
Cyber data protector Acronis has appointed ex-VMware CEO Paul Maritz to chair its board, replacing René Bonvanie who had been Chairman since February 2014.
Serguei (SB) Belousssov founded Acronis in...
Storage news ticker tape — October 18
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Marvell is sampling its Octeon 10 DPU (Data Processing Unit) with between 8 and 36 Arm Neoverse N2 cores based on Arm’s Armv9 architecture. The chip is built using...
Much ado about nothing much: Gartner’s latest primary array MQ
Gartner’s latest annual primary array Magic Quadrant shows a late-stage mature market with little differentiating innovation and moderately stable supplier positions.
Update; Vast Data Comment added. October 18, 2021.
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Hammerspace exec interview on supply shortages — and working for Warren Buffet
Are you affected by IT hardware supply shortages? We had an email interview with Hammerspace’s SVP for Strategy and Business Development, Tony Asaro, who’s been hearing from customers about...