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Cloud storage
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Pure Storage revenue growth belies NAND pricing worries
- Senior News Writer 22 Aug 2019 -
New Cloud Daddy CEO aims to 'tell the world' about AWS protection
- TechTarget 21 Jun 2019 -
Google Cloud courts Actifio, HYCU for data protection
- Editorial News Director 11 Apr 2019
Pure Storage earnings were a mixed bag this week. The flash storage vendor said revenues grew 28% last quarter, but it cut revenue guidance for the second consecutive call, blaming imbalanced NAND ...
The new CEO of AWS data protection provider Cloud Daddy is looking to tell his company's story and drastically increase its customer count. "We've got to get people to know about Cloud Daddy," said ...
While Google made a big deal of working with open source software companies at its Google Cloud Next Conference, it also has been lining up data protection partners. Secondary storage management ...
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With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing
- Editorial News Director 13 Mar 2019 -
HubStor adds continuous data protection, version control
- TechTarget 04 Dec 2018 -
Nutanix Xi launches as long-term AWS challenger
- Editorial News Director 28 Nov 2018 -
Pure Storage points flash at AWS cloud
- Editorial News Director 20 Nov 2018 -
ClearSky Data POPs corks over $20M funding
- Editorial News Director 13 Nov 2018 -
Nutanix shines Beam into private cloud
- Editorial News Director 01 Nov 2018 -
NetApp Insight: Yes, NetApp still sells hardware
- Editorial News Director 30 Oct 2018
Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ...
HubStor added continuous data protection and version control to its cloud storage platform. The continuous data protection (CDP) provides agentless monitoring of specific file system directories to ...
While Amazon holds court at re:Invent in Las Vegas this week, hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix launched services that it hopes can eventually challenge the public cloud giant. Nutanix used its ...
Pure Storage’s earnings report painted a sunny picture of revenues at the same time as the flash pioneer unveiled a cloudy focus on its product direction. Pure beat Wall Street expectations with a ...
ClearSky Data today scored $20 million in funding and a partnership with Equinix to expand coverage for its managed storage services. New investor Pear Tree Partners participated in the funding ...
Nutanix is extending the Beam capability it launched six months ago for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure into private clouds running on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure. Nutanix Beam ...
At the end of the final keynote at NetApp Insight last week, founder Dave Hitz decided to add some sanity lest people get the wrong idea about the vendor’s strategy. Hitz summed up the message at ...
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Ctera Networks snares $30 million in Series D funding round
- Senior News Writer 12 Oct 2018 -
Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support
- TechTarget 11 Oct 2018 -
Report: Support for high availability applications is 'mixed'
- TechTarget 28 Sep 2018 -
Cloud storage startup Wasabi Technologies raises $68 million
- Senior News Writer 19 Sep 2018 -
DRaaS Magic Quadrant shrinks; Microsoft, iland lead the way
- TechTarget 20 Aug 2018 -
Kaminario storage goes for a run on Western Digital OpenFlex
- Senior News Writer 13 Aug 2018 -
Rubrik targets ransomware attacks with Polaris Radar
- Editorial News Director 25 Jul 2018 -
Lenovo picks Cloudistics as ThinkAgile CP partner
- Editorial News Director 20 Jul 2018 -
Newest Dell EMC data protection appliance heads downstream
- Senior News Writer 11 Jul 2018 -
Proposed Tintri-DDN storage deal heads for bankruptcy court
- Senior News Writer 10 Jul 2018 -
Commvault and Azure integrations drive data protection tasks
- TechTarget 29 Jun 2018 -
Rubrik Alta goes native for AWS EC2, adds MSP Envoy
- Editorial News Director 13 Jun 2018 -
The Tintri storage hourglass is almost out of sand
- Senior News Writer 12 Jun 2018 -
Startup Komprise strikes reseller agreement with IBM
- Senior News Writer 30 May 2018 -
Scality Rings up $60 million funding round
- Editorial News Director 17 Apr 2018 -
OwnBackup lands $15.5M to fund further SaaS backup
- TechTarget 12 Apr 2018 -
Ctera Networks CEO: enterprise subscriptions spiking
- Senior News Writer 16 Mar 2018 -
Pivotal move: Chad Sakac says Dell EMC in ‘rear-view window’
- Senior News Writer 22 Feb 2018 -
NetApp cloud-flash pivot brings cheers
- Senior News Writer 15 Feb 2018 -
Caringo Swarm sales jumped 40% in 2017
- Senior News Writer 30 Jan 2018 -
Kaminario storage jettisons hardware for software-only cloud model
- Senior News Writer 29 Jan 2018 -
Igneous Systems ingests $15 million funding for file data protection
- Editorial News Director 29 Jan 2018 -
Annual IBM revenue rises, thanks to cloud, flash storage
- Senior News Writer 22 Jan 2018 -
HyTrust rekindles DataGravity analytics for multicloud storage
- Senior News Writer 19 Dec 2017 -
Tintri cloud forecast: stormy, with slight chance of revenue
- Senior News Writer 14 Dec 2017 -
Hedvig CEO: Who needs backups?
- Editorial News Director 07 Dec 2017 -
Nexenta raises $20 million, shoots for cloud
- Senior News Writer 30 Nov 2017 -
Amazon not to blame for S3 cloud storage lapses
- Senior News Writer 15 Nov 2017 -
SwiftStack objects to object storage label
- Editorial News Director 02 Nov 2017 -
Elastifile scores OEM deal with Dell EMC
- Editorial News Director 01 Nov 2017 -
IBM Cloud Object Storage tweaked for on-prem, small footprints
- Senior News Writer 31 Oct 2017 -
Quest data protection management adds cloud portal
- Senior News Writer 26 Oct 2017 -
Can Commvault HyperScale cure sales slide?
- Editorial News Director 24 Oct 2017 -
Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding
- Senior News Writer 18 Sep 2017 -
Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise
- Senior News Writer 07 Sep 2017 -
Tintri Enterprise Cloud Series federates 64 flash nodes
- Senior News Writer 07 Sep 2017 -
Elastifile grabs $16M to stretch sales staff
- Editorial News Director 06 Sep 2017 -
Druva pulls in $80 million for data management software
- Senior News Writer 22 Aug 2017 -
Nutanix enterprise cloud strategy envelopes HPE, Cisco blades
- Editorial News Director 03 May 2017 -
HyperGrid swears off hardware, favors HyperCloud SaaS
- Senior News Writer 23 Nov 2016 -
New SNIA Swordfish spec targets hyperscale, cloud environments
- Senior News Writer 21 Sep 2016 -
IDrive cloud introduces 'private' property
- TechTarget 13 Sep 2016 -
Cloudian and AWS team up for on-premise cloud storage
- Senior News Writer 12 Aug 2016 -
Spectra Logic bolsters BlackPearl storage archive for Amazon cloud
- Senior News Writer 28 Jul 2016 -
Commvault rallies ‘round the cloud
- Editorial News Director 27 Jul 2016 -
Scality's RING now pre-integrated with new Dell cloud storage system
- Senior News Writer 27 Apr 2016 -
Cohesity adds cloud to its converged data protection
- Editorial News Director 12 Apr 2016 -
Hybrid cloud still an unfulfilled goal for most
- Editorial News Director 15 Mar 2016 -
CSPs spend a lot on storage to enable the cloud
- Senior News Writer 25 Feb 2016 -
Axcient adds appliance-less recovery to its cloud services
- Senior News Writer 15 May 2015 -
SIOS offers high availability in Azure with Microsoft's backing.
- Senior News Writer 15 Apr 2015 -
Red Hat brings GlusterFS to Amazon cloud
- Editorial News Director 10 Feb 2012
Ctera Networks CEO Liran Eshel said his cloud file system company became cash flow positive this year, but it grabbed $30 million in new funding to grow as part of a booming market. Ctera Networks ...
Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ...
What are high availability applications if they're not highly available? According to a report released this month by SIOS, in partnership with ActualTech Media, one-quarter of respondents say ...
Newcomer Wasabi Technologies will try to build up its brand recognition and take on the Big Three public cloud providers after raising $68 million in Series B funding. “You don’t go up against ...
Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for disaster recovery as a service made 13 vendors disappear. Gartner also thoroughly shuffled the deck among the remaining DRaaS Magic Quadrant survivors. Besides ...
Kaminario storage continues to push farther and farther away from its reliance on purpose-built hardware. The all-flash vendor has qualified its consumption-based Cloud Fabric software for Western ...
Rubrik today added an application to its Polaris SaaS platform, with the goal of automating protection against ransomware attacks. Polaris Radar is the second Polaris application from the converged ...
Like the other major server vendors, Lenovo proclaims it is “all in” on hyper-convergence and software-defined storage. It just goes about it in a different way. Unlike the Dell EMC VxRail, Cisco ...
Until last year, Dell EMC data protection involved separate offerings of Avamar backup software and Data Domain deduplication appliances. The vendor changed that strategy in May 2017 with the ...
Data Direct Networks Inc. (DDN) is seeking a bargain from Tintri's fire sale. The DDN storage portfolio is poised to add the storage assets of failing hybrid vendor Tintri, which filed for Chapter ...
Commvault has expanded its integration with Microsoft Azure Stack, also pulling its OEM partner Cisco into deal. With the Commvault Data Platform, enterprises using on-premises Azure Stack hybrid ...
The latest version of Rubrik Alta Cloud Data Management software adds data protection and management capabilities across clouds, for enterprise users as well as managed service providers. Rubrik ...
Time is winding down for Tintri, whose slow-motion fall could come by the end of June. The remaining question is whether the publicly traded hybrid storage vendor can complete a last-second Hail ...
Komprise struck its first major reseller agreement, partnering with IBM to offer Komprise Intelligent Data Management software with the vendor’s storage portfolio. Customers can use Komprise ...
With a fresh $60 million in funding, Scality CEO Jerome Lecat said he expects the object storage vendor to become profitable within two years. Scality, which launched its Ring object storage in ...
OwnBackup closed its largest funding round to date and will use it to propel product work and double employee headcount, the cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor said today. The $15.5 million ...
Ctera Networks claimed subscription revenue for its enterprise file services platform more than doubled in fiscal 2017, pushing the company to record results for the year. As a private company, ...
The question ‘Where is Chad Sakac?’ got answered this week: by Chad Sakac. The former president of the Dell EMC converged infrastructure division (formerly known as converged platforms) said he ...
NetApp attributed strong product revenue growth last quarter in part to two-a-days – it’s averaging two displacements of rivals’ all-flash SAN systems every day. Success in NetApp cloud and flash ...
Despite all the talk about object storage over the years, it has yet to push scale-out NAS out of the enterprise for storing files that take up hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of capacity. But ...
Kaminario is the latest vendor to deemphasize hardware in favor of a solely software-defined approach. Under its new strategy, customers will buy Kaminario storage as a reference stack from global ...
Igneous Systems today closed a $15 million Series B funding round to help expand marketing of its hybrid cloud backup and archiving platform for file data. Igneous Hybrid Storage Cloud consists of ...
Aided by gains in cognitive analytics, cloud and storage, annual IBM revenue has finally returned to positive territory after an absence of nearly six years. IBM last week closed its 2017 fiscal ...
HyTrust has revived DataGravity’s data-aware storage technology, six months after scooping up the startup’s assets. Cloud infrastructure specialist HyTrust today launched the CloudAdvisor automated ...
Flash storage vendor Tintri has had an inauspicious start to life as a public company. On Wednesday, during only its second earnings call, there were hints that Tintri may already be on life ...
Santa Clara, Calif. -- By now, most people realize this is the age of convergence in IT – especially as it applies to storage. We have converged infrastructure mixing storage, compute and ...
Bolstered by lead investor SoftBank Corp., Nexenta secured $20 million in financing this week to fund its new cloud portfolio. The Santa Clara, California-based storage software vendor next month ...
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has been giving big businesses –and their customers -- big trouble. It was reported earlier this summer that high-profile companies left data in their S3 ...
SwiftStack’s leadership team appreciated being selected a visionary in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. The vendor even put out a press release ...
Cloud NAS vendor Elastifile has struck an OEM deal with Dell EMC, one of the startup’s first investors. Dell EMC will integrate Elastifile Cloud File System and CloudConnect cloud transfer and ...
With the latest upgrades to its object storage platform, IBM recognizes that not everyone who uses object storage does so in the public cloud. They don’t all start with hundreds of terabytes of ...
Quest Software, independent again after its spinoff from Dell EMC nearly a year ago, is building out its data protection portfolio with a new cloud-based management console. The Quest Data ...
Following six straight quarters of making or beating expectations, Commvault stumbled last quarter when it missed its targets for revenue and income. The backup and data management company today ...
Cloud-based file service provider Nasuni last week closed on $38 million in funding to boost its expansion plans in research and development and its channel and go-to-market efforts. The Goldman ...
Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ...
Flash vendor Tintri in July expanded storage clustering to enable customers to build a massively scalable private enterprise cloud. On Tuesday, the Tintri enterprise cloud strategy added another ...
Startup Elastifile, which sells a distributed file system that spans flash and cloud storage tiers, picked up $16 million in funding today. The startup also gained a new strategic investor in ...
Druva today said it has raised another $80 million in funding, bringing its total investments into the range of $200 million for the fast-growing data management software vendors. The Sunnyvale, ...
Nutanix took two steps today to paint itself as more of an enterprise cloud player. First, it added Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant rackmount servers and Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers to its ...
Hypergrid put the finishing touch on its shift from storage hardware to SaaS-based delivery with the introduction of HyperCloud. The company formerly known as Gridstore said HyperCloud helps ...
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) released Swordfish, a new specification that could ease the management of storage equipment and data services in converged, hyper-converged, ...
Backup vendor IDrive has added the private cloud to its repertoire, allowing customers to keep backup data on premises as well as in the public cloud. The IDrive Private Cloud appliance features 6 ...
Cloudian and Amazon Web Services are now offering a new service that allows customers to use Cloudian HyperStore Hybrid Storage offering that stores data locally but leverages the S3 object ...
Backup tape specialist Spectra Logic has upgraded the operating software for its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway appliance, allowing petabyte-scale enterprises to build a storage archive using ...
Commvault increased its year-over-year revenues for the third straight quarter, with a big assist from the cloud. Like all storage vendors, Commvault is looking for a way to work with public cloud ...
Dell and Scality recently added a highly dense, purpose-built cloud storage system that is pre-intergrated with the RING object storage software to their reseller product lineup. The SD7000-S cloud ...
Cohesity, which bills itself as convergence for secondary data, is adding public cloud support to its data protection platform. Cohesity’s converged data protection strategy combines data ...
Storage vendors often talk about this being a transformation period in storage. EMC, whose executives use that term as much as anybody, conducted an analysis of its customers to see just where they ...
Nearly one third of cloud service providers spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage while 46% of them spend five to 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey conducted ...
Cloud Provider Axcient launched an appliance-less, direct-to-cloud recovery service aimed at small-to-medium sized businesses or remote office data protection. The company has been selling a ...
In a sign that more companies are moving important applications to the cloud, SIOS Technology Corp. achieved Microsoft Azure certification to provide customers with high-availability clusters in ...
Red Hat has been tweaking and expanding the NAS storage products it acquired from Gluster last October. This week Red Hat brought GlusterFS to the cloud with an appliance for Amazon Web Services ...