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Clumio Provides Air-Gapped Data Protection Against Ransomware
by Joseph F. Kovar
“Air-gapping moves data outside your environment. Our Clumio RansomProtect service is in the public cloud, not on the customer’s network. It includes heavy security: all data is immutable, and there is no ‘delete’ button, even with a password. And the infrastructure is all owned by Clumio,” says Chadd Kenney, Clumio’s vice president and chief technologist.
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Quantum Acquires Square Box Systems, Hires Flash Storage Guru Brian Pawlowski
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘[We] see an opportunity for packaging CatDV with Quantum storage and take that to market as a solution neither sided has been able to do before. It’s a big opportunity for us to develop an all-in-one appliance,’ says Eric Bassier, Quantum’s senior director of product marketing.
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Dell’s Storage Charge In 2021 Is ‘All Around PowerStore’
by Mark Haranas
‘PowerStore is perhaps the greatest product we’ve ever launched,’ says Dell Technologies President Bill Scannell in an interview with CRN.
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Hitachi Vantara Targets Midrange Storage Business With New Arrays, Virtual Storage As A Service
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We’re looking at taking our enterprise-class storage and making it flexible and cost-effective for the midrange. Hitachi Vantara has always been known for its enterprise storage capabilities. But partners have been looking at how to take enterprise-class storage to the midrange,’ says Kimberly King, vice president of strategic partners and alliances.
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Former Veritas CEO Bill Coleman Mourned As Software Visionary
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The No. 1 job of a CEO is to give purpose to a company. Bill had a vision around what data meant to the world’s largest companies and what it meant to manage that data and make it an important resource for those companies. And he did that very well. He focused on things five years out, and didn’t look at next week,’ says Mike Palmer, CEO of business analytics startup Sigma Computing.
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Google To Acquire Actifio To Beef Up Google Cloud Data Protection
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We know that customers have many options when it comes to cloud solutions, including backup and DR, and the acquisition of Actifio will help us to better serve enterprises as they deploy and manage business-critical workloads, including in hybrid scenarios,’ writes Brad Calder, Google vice president of engineering.
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NetApp CEO George Kurian: All-Flash, Hybrid Cloud Trends Point To A Bright Future
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We saw strength in all geographies, with larger customers accelerating their digital transformations with NetApp,. We will continue to exploit competitive transitions, the growth of the all-flash market, and the accelerating shift to cloud to expand our leadership position,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
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Pure Storage Enhances Pure-as-a-Service With New Catalog, Tiering, Cisco Capabilities
by Joseph F. Kovar
With the enhancements, Pure Storage is making the cost of storage services built on its technology more transparent, and is enabling channel partners to offer the joint Pure-Cisco FlashStack converged infrastructure as a service.
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‘We Are Getting Into The Big Leagues Now’: Rubrik Makes Big Leaps In Protecting Database, Cloud Data
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Andes 5.3 has a lot of self-service. Before, an enterprise might need a systems administrator to do everything. Now users can do updates and changes themselves. Rubrik has made an easy path for that in a nice GUI (graphical user interface) fashion,’ says Mike Morgan, lead architect with Insight.
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Backup And Disaster Recovery Minute: A Differentiated Device-Based Platform Small Businesses Need
by Aaron Nobil
Discover why it’s crucial for you to re-evaluate your technology offering and how StorageCraft’s OneXafe Solo is the right-fit solution for your SMB customers’ businesses.
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Pure Storage Intros Validated Designs With Commvault, Vertica
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Reference architectures show all the different pieces that go into a joint solution, but we the partners still have to validate it to work for the customer. With validated designs, it’s easier for our delivery organization, and easier for us to deploy the solutions,’ says Ryan Sheehan, vice president of advanced solutions at SHI International which partners with Pure Storage, Commvault, and Vertica.
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StorCentric Plays A New Tune With Violin Systems Acquisition
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Our partners may go to customers and pitch our Vexata technology, but that’s focused on the highest-performance workloads. Violin, on the other hand, adds performance in the midrange sector,’ says StorCentric CEO Mihir Shah.
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Micron Shipping 176-layer 3D NAND, With Enterprise Storage, Other Apps To Come
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The ability to store upwards of 20 to 30 hours of HD video on what equates to the size of a pinky fingernail is what you can do with our 176-layer technology. Additionally, the capability exists to stack those die on top of each other all the way up to 16 of those die, and putting those 16 die into essentially the thickness of the entire pinky itself,’ says Derek Dicker, corporate vice president and general manager for Micron’s Storage Business Unit.
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Dell Partners Reaping 20 Percent Margins On PowerStore Deals
by Mark Haranas
‘We are now targeting an average margin for our partners at 20 points with PowerStore,’ says Scott Millard, senior vice president of global channel, alliances and OEM specialty sales at Dell Technologies.
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