Storage Soup
August 2013
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Pure Storage gets $150M to grow now, IPO later
- Editorial News Director 29 Aug 2013 -
Violin Memory flashes its IPO plans
- Editorial News Director 27 Aug 2013 -
Donatelli dumped as head of HP Enterprise Group, goes on special assignment
- Editorial News Director 22 Aug 2013
Three days after Violin Memory filed to go public, another all-flash startup Pure Storage today closed a whopping $150 million funding round. Pure calls it the largest private funding round in the ...
Well-funded flash array startup Violin Memory has filed papers to go public in hopes of raising $172.5 million by selling shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Violin’s initial public offering ...
Dave Donatelli, the man who set Hewlett-Packard’s storage strategy, is no longer in charge of HP’s storage, server and networking group. HP CEO Meg Whitman Wednesday said COO Big Veghte will take ...
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Making storage simple is a complex process
- Evaluator Group 21 Aug 2013 -
Cleversafe raises a hefty $55 million to push object storage
- Senior News Writer 20 Aug 2013 -
3D Flash is Star of the 2013 Flash Memory Summit
- Vice President of Editorial 19 Aug 2013 -
"Gang of Four" Disk Manufacturers Says Don't Forget About Spinning Disk
- Vice President of Editorial 19 Aug 2013 -
Tegile takes a drink from flash funding fountain
- Editorial News Director 16 Aug 2013 -
Microsoft SkyDrive outage is just not good for business
- Senior News Writer 16 Aug 2013 -
Storage sales improve, still not 'normal'
- Editorial News Director 15 Aug 2013
Storage devices such as hard disk drives may be seen as commodities, although storage systems that businesses depend on are clearly not commodities. Systems that store the most critical information ...
Object storage vendor Cleversafe this week raised $55 million in a series D funding round, bringing the total amount the company has raised to about $100 million since it was founded in 2004 and ...
The eighth annual Flash Storage Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., was once again an interesting mix of solid-state builders and buyers. While much of the exhibit hall featured exhibitors showing off ...
SPA officially launched at the eighth Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. No, SPA isn't an upscale new Silicon Valley health resort where the nouveau Web riche renew their inner ...
Tegile Systems pulled in $35 million in funding this week to help beef up sales and marketing for its Zebi storage arrays. Fittingly for a hybrid storage startup, the round included strategic t ...
The disruption of Microsoft’s cloud services this week is likely to shake some customers' confidence in the cloud, even those not impacted by the most recent disruption. The Microsoft SkyDrive ...
When storage revenue slipped in the early part of 2013, vendors predicted sales would pick up in the second half. We saw some evidence of that this week when Brocade and NetApp reported earnings ...
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FalconStor takes down 'For Sale' sign
- Editorial News Director 09 Aug 2013 -
Nirvanix facing tough battle against Amazon S3
- Senior News Writer 08 Aug 2013 -
Fusion-io fumbles again
- Editorial News Director 08 Aug 2013 -
Caringo joins the Amazon API bandwagon
- Senior News Writer 07 Aug 2013 -
Hidden costs of open source software
- Evaluator Group 07 Aug 2013
New FalconStor CEO Gary Quinn said the vendor has cut its ties with investment banker Wells Fargo, which the software vendor hired in December to pursue an acquisition of the company or other ...
Nirvanix, first out of the gate as a pure-play cloud storage provide, is facing a tough battle against Amazon S3 and other large cloud providers and there are indications the company is ...
This has been a tough year for server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io, and it probably has yet to hit bottom. Fusion-io Wednesday reported disappointing sales for last quarter, and expects things to ...
Caringo Inc. recently launched its CloudScaler 2.0, adding support for Amazon S3 support and transparent disaster recovery options for cloud service providers. The company now joins a growing ...
I had a long discussion with an IT director for a large company this past week, and we talked about his views on open source software. Basically, he said he considered open source for information ...