Data Storage

Rewind Closes $65M Funding For App-Specific Data Protection

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘Think about how pervasive SaaS is, and how fast it is growing. We are focused on the popular SaaS apps, and work with six so far. Our goal is to back up all the popular SaaS apps. We think it’s reachable,’ says Rewind CEO Mike Potter. ‘We’ve done six platforms so far, and we’ve learned a lot from these six, all of which are different. We think we have the right team and the right technology to do them all.’
Pure Storage Stock Soars On Cloud, All-Flash Growth

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘As a growing, share-taking company, we expect every quarter to be record breaking, but this quarter was extraordinary. Sales, revenue, and profitability were well above expectations. Revenue growth this quarter exceeded 23 percent, and we had the highest Q2 operating profit in our history,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo.
NetApp: Full Speed Ahead On Public/Hybrid Cloud, All-Flash Storage

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘Customers need to simplify and modernize existing data centers and deploy traditional applications quickly and confidently. At the same time, customers are also accelerating their use of cloud, adopting modern application architectures like Kubernetes and microservices for new workloads and deploying data-rich applications like machine and deep learning,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
Axcient Unveils Local Cache: Fast Data Recovery Alternative To Appliances

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘Before this, an MSP with 50 customers and 100 servers looking to convert to a new business continuity solution would need about six months. We’re seeing partners now convert their entire customer base in 60 days. And that’s the guys who are doing it slow,’ says Axcient’s Ben Nowacky (r.).
Arcserve N-series Integrates Data Protection, Nutanix HCI, Sophos Security

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘We’re delivering a secure backup and recovery environment with the scale-out power of HCI. We’re partnering with the leading HCI infrastructure provider and with a leading security provider to protect data on top of our leading backup technology, which has been proven for decades,’ says Ahsan Siddiqui, Arcserve’s director of product management.
Qumulo Exits Hardware, Teams With Supermicro, Arrow On Appliances

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘We’re a software-only company. You can run our software on the cloud or on hardware all the same. It’s true software-defined storage with open APIs. So customers can do things like have a workload based on a Supermicro appliance shift to AWS to run first-party services,’ says Warren Mead, Qumulo’s vice president of channels and business development.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending July 30 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
Commvault Metallic SaaS Tech Drives Q1 Sales, ARR Growth

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘We also have inside sales and sales reps pitching Metallic to customers. Our customer renewal specialists also talk with customers about Metallic. Metallic is becoming very much entrenched in our partner community. Over 90-plus-plus percent of Metallic sales go through the channel. Metallic is almost exclusively a channel product,’ says Commvault CFO Brian Carolan.
Quantum Acquires HCI Pioneer Pivot3’s Video Surveillance Tech

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘[Pivot3’s] technology completes our surveillance portfolio. It becomes the core now, covering SMB to mission-critical requirements including software and tape,’ says Eric Bassier, Quantum’s senior director of product marketing.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending July 16 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
Commvault Signs Microsoft Partner SoftwareONE As First Metallic MSP

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘SoftwareONE is the first to offer backup-as-a-service via white-label. It will be branded as SoftwareONE, and the value will be through SoftwareONE. We have integrated Metallic into the SoftwareONE system so customers feel it’s from SoftwareONE,’ says Manoj Nair, general manager Commvault’s Metallic business.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending July 9 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending July 2 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
HPE CEO Neri: HPE’s $374M Zerto Buy Key To Cloud-native, Software-defined Future

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘This acquisition accelerates HPE storage transformation to a cloud-native software-defined data services business. Zerto’s industry-leading disaster recovery software is proven with over 9,000 customers globally and over 350 managed service providers who power their data protection-as-a-service offering with Zerto’s software,’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending June 25, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.