ChaosSearch growing fast amidst mountains of chaotic data
Data analytics startup ChaosSearch is growing like crazy as its analytics software enables more needles to be found in haystacks faster.
The company, which recruited IBMer Ed Walsh as its...
Public cloud Hotel California costing exposed
Storing a petabyte of data in an Amazon file system can cost 400 per cent more per month than storing it in an on-premises all-flash file store, and moving...
OwnBackup dons tricorn hat after second mega-funding round
Not content with a $167.5 million fund raiser in January, OwnBackup has tapped VCs again to pull in another $240 million and push its valuation past $3 billion.
OwnBackup supplies...
Irish university buys StorONE array from recycled hardware supplier
Who knew you can build a storage array using recycled hardware? Apparently the University of Limerick has bought one from Wisetek with previously-used hardware and StorONE software.
Cork-based Wisetek built...
Epigram rules — Qumulo hardware business exit interview
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is a French epigram that means “the more it changes the more it stays the same”. At a quick glance such...
Distributed OLAPer Kyligence accelerates core engine, adds real-time data support
Chinese American distributed OLAP startup Kyligence has accelerated its core engine, added real-time analytics, and put storage tiering in place to support more and bigger datasets.
The Apache Kylin open-source...
Three go mining for backup gold: Arcserve, Nutanix and Sophos
Arcserve has announced N-Series appliances, delivering integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise customers, thus joining Veeam, HYCU and Commvault, but with added security
Arcserve has existing UDP...
Quantum turns the revenue corner as it develops cold Storage-as-a-Service
Quantum grew first quarter fiscal 2022 revenues 22 per cent year-on-year with a high hyperscale customer order rate and a growing backlog due to supply constraints. It is bringing...
Qumulo follows Silk and VAST Data — exits hardware business
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo is exiting the hardware business, adding Supermicro to its hardware supply partners, and betting its SW will lift its business to success.
After supplying combined hardware...
MinIO: the smartphone camera of object storage
MinIO wants to be the smartphone camera of object storage — in that millions of smartphone cameras destroyed the traditional camera industry.
Consumers have largely stopped buying cameras because...
The Uberisation of storage
Having direct control over your own storage assets is a responsibility some organisations view as a regrettable burden. They are attracted to the idea of paying for on-premises storage...
Your occasional storage digest with Ahana, Egnyte, FalconStor and Netlist, Varada and a tad...
A data lake analytics startup springs on to the stage with a fast funding round following its founding (nice alliteration — Ed). Ransomware attackers love architecture, engineering and construction...