Data Storage

Infinidat: Operational Efficiency Is Key To Scaling Storage Infrastructure

by Jennifer Zarate

‘When we started this 10 years ago, the journey was a couple hundred terabytes to a petabyte. Now we’re seeing customers do hundreds of petabytes on the floor and that will soon be exabytes, so that growth is off the charts and our partners are delivering that,’ Infinidat’s Brett Cooper tells CRNtv.
NetApp CEO Kurian: All-Flash Storage, Hybrid Cloud Continue To Be Business Drivers

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘As we have said many times, cloud is additive to our business, what we do in the cloud helps expand our on-premises business, and our enterprise-hardened software and experience provide a solid foundation for our work in the cloud,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
Pure Storage: Strong Fiscal Year Finish Despite Pandemic’s Ups And Downs

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘I believe that in this fiscal year our customers will accelerate their investment in digital transformation with renewed confidence of economic recovery. They will be increasingly confident in their ability to deploy new vendors, new systems and software, into new use cases, and Pure will be high on their list,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo.
Arcserve, StorageCraft To Merge, Create Data Protection Powerhouse

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘We’ll always be 100-percent channel-focused moving forward. We’re both diametrically opposed to any channel conflict. You won’t see us moving into a direct sales motion. We think there are opportunities for us to really double-down with the channel and invest more in sales and marketing where both of us wouldn’t have had the ability to do that stand-alone,’ says Arcserve CEO Tom Signorello.
Storage-as-a-Service Specialist Zadara Acquires Compute Developer NeoKarm

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘Most of our customers are MSPs who use our storage internally to offer to clients who pay for usage. It’s software-defined storage. No Capex. They like not needing Capex and like our flexibility. And they ask us why we don’t also provide Compute as a Service,” says Zadara CEO Nelson Nahum.
Veeam Adds Veeam Backup For Google Cloud Platform

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘It takes advantage of all the Google capabilities. It does all the cost forecasting. It takes advantage of Google security controls. And it’s built for hybrid environments. Veeam recognizes that customers still have on-premises data,’ says Veeam CTO Danny Allan.
DataCore Acquires Caringo In Major Software-defined Storage Play

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘As customers moved towards object storage, we decided an acquisition would be the fastest way to get it. Caringo had the most advanced technology, but was lacking the financial backing and the support of a strong channel. There are other object storage companies, but they don’t have the maturity the Caringo Swarm offers,’ says Gerardo Dada, DataCore’s chief marketing officer.
Robin.io Strengthens Kubernetes, App Management Offering With New Channel Push

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘We want this to be a win-win. We’re not just looking for partners. We want to qualify their interest in a joint approach to the market,’ says Mehran Hadipour, vice president of alliances at Robin.io.
NAS Developer OpenDrives Nabs $20M In New Funding, Invests In Ctrl IQ

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘The partnership will be focused on developing the compute side of OpenDrives. That’s a big focus of our new funding,’ says Sean Lee, OpenDrives’ chief strategy and product officer.
Veritas Acquires HubStor In Play For Backup-As-A-Service Expertise

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘HubStor offers a granular, scalable, and easy-to-configure enterprise solution. They also have an impressive track record in the enterprise, including with some Veritas customers. Those two facts already point to a good start for us,’ says Simon Jelley, vice president Veritas’ the Backup Express and SaaS business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.