Storage

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  Veritas’ Globanet Acquisition Simplifies Collection Of Zoom, Team, Slack Data

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘This completes our solution. We can help businesses go from capturing data to being able to consume the data, do analysis on it, move it to archive and recovery, add context, and provide the ability to do proactive and reactive actions based on risk,’ says Ajay Bhatia, Veritas’ general manager of compliance.

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  Vast Data Aims At Artificial Intelligence With LightSpeed Architecture

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  The new Vast Data LightSpeed all-NVMe flash storage architecture, when combined with the Nvidia GPUDirect Storage architecture, brings NAS simplicity and high performance to artificial intelligence workloads, Vast Data said.

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  Commvault Disaster Recovery In General Availability For VMware Cloud Environments

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Partners are looking for simplicity and better economics. With the launch of Commvault Disaster Recovery, we are meeting both requirements. Customers can acquire what they need now, and disaster recovery is a critical need. And they can pay for only the services they need,’ says Mercer Rowe, vice president of Commvault’s global partner organization.

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  NetApp Layoffs: CEO George Kurian Confirms Hit To Its SolidFire Business

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘[Headcount reductions] were driven by the strategic alignment and focus that we have to prioritize our resources in the core storage systems and software business, as well as accelerating our public cloud services business,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.

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  NetApp Layoffs Stem From COVID-19 Impacts, Shift In Tech Focus: Channel Sources

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘NetApp is realigning resources and investments to best capture these opportunities and position the company for long-term success,’ the company said in a statement.

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  NetApp Layoffs Approach 6 Percent Of Company Workforce: Report

  by Rick Whiting

  Data storage and management software vendor is scheduled to announce its fiscal 2021 first quarter results this afternoon.

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  Pure Storage Unveils New QLC Module, Plans Low-cost 5.2-PB In 6U Flash Array

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  “We‘re not just going cheap and deep. We don’t want a lot of gimmicks to deliver QLC, such as the use of storage-class memory as a cache. We get rid of the gimmicks to deliver both performance and capacity. Every DirectFlash module has DRAM to support performance, but the entire array has bit-level access to QLC,” says Scott Baker, vice president of product marketing for Pure Storage’s Flash Array product line.

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  StorageCraft President Doug Brockett: Simplify To Increase Efficiency, Weather COVID-19

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘More than 57 percent of the solution provider base is actually using three or more solutions. We know this is inefficient. We know this isn’t successful for you. We know this isn’t a way you’re going to get to better operational maturity, efficiency, and profitability,’ says Doug Brockett, president of StorageCraft.

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  NinjaRMM Develops Own Data Protection Offering

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Our backup technology has the same code base as our RMM platform. The disadvantage of building our own is longer time to market. But the benefits include a better support experience and a single pane of integration, which is what our customers are asking for,’ says NinjaRMM CEO Sal Sferlazza of the new Ninja Data Protection.

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  Veritas Bets Big On Cloud Data Protection, Recovery With New NetBackup

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  New Veritas NetBackup 8.3 is targeted at bringing enterprise data protection to a wider range of workloads and clouds, with new cloud-native capabilities, simplified licensing, and ransomware protection.

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  Commvault Brings Hedvig Tech To Kubernetes Management, Reimagines Data Protection

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  Commvault broke out its data protection and disaster recovery technologies into two separate offerings to simplify how businesses protect their data, but is allowing them to be combined into a single Commvault Complete Data Protection platform at bundled pricing.

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  CEO Sanjay Mirchandani: Commvault Is Future-Ready

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Commvault is really, really ready for the future. ... Together, our best-in-class portfolio and enhanced partner ecosystem make it easier for IT professionals to move beyond the complexity and seize the opportunity in the cloud, ultimately to be ready for whatever radical change comes next,’ says Mirchandani during his Commvault Future Ready keynote.

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  Hitachi Vantara, WekaIO Partner To Increase Object Storage Performance, Flexibility

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We want to help clients better manage unstructured data and make it easier for them to leverage that data for decision making and business analytics,’ says Colin Gallagher, vice president Hitachi Vantara‘s Digital Infrastructure business unit.

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  Nasuni Raises New $25 Million Funding Round

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  “We love cash and having a strong balance sheet. But anything to help with orchestration in the cloud is gold to us. We are considering perhaps acquiring this technology rather than building it because everything is moving so fast,” says Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez.

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  IBM Ramps Up AI, Analytics Via New File, Object Storage

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  'IBM has its own object store technology, and has added performance and new capabilities. But they haven't ignored everybody else's object stores. The data is already there. IBM is opening it all up,' says John Zawistowski, global systems solutions executive at Sycomp.