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NetApp’s Strong Quarter Led By All-Flash Storage, Cloud Revenue Growth
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We are gaining share in the key markets of all-flash and object storage, while rapidly scaling our public cloud business. Our industry-leading innovation and unique and deep cloud partnerships position us well to capitalize on significant opportunity ahead,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
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NetApp Debuts Astra Data Store With Kubernetes-Native, Software-Defined File Services
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘NetApp Astra Data Store offers a way for customers to grow their Kubernetes management. ... Our technology provides a software-approach as a way to do infrastructure as code. Kubernetes administrators get full data services in a scale-out fashion in a software-only approach, not hardware-based,’ says Eric Han, NetApp’s vice president of product management for the cloud.
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Veeam Goes All In On Cloud With New Veeam Backup & Replication Version
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Version 11a of the Veeam platform provides consolidation of management across all the different solutions that Veeam is able to protect. ... With 11a, you now get a consolidated view across the clouds,’ says Danny Allan, Veeam’s CTO and senior vice president of product strategy.
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DNA Storage Tech Developer Catalog Raises $35M For DNA-Based Compute
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We can create collections of molecules and probes. The molecules can be manufactured in mass so someone can create a chemical instruction which, unlike classic electronic instructions, can achieve scales of parallelism not possible today. Parallel computing today requires multiple self-contained conventional servers. With DNA, on a molecule level, you can have millions and billions of layers of parallelism,’ says David Turek, Catalog’s chief technology officer.
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Jungle Disk Expands Data Protection Business With Three Acquisitions
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We can implement data protection for the smallest customers to enterprises. The four can share certain processes and technologies across the field. There’s a lot each can learn from our institutional knowledge. ... We can provide services to small businesses to enterprises around the world. Not many companies in the market today can do that,’ says Jungle Disk President and CEO Bret Piatt.
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Pure Storage Expands Cloud Reach With New Automation, Database-As-A-Service
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘As a company, we are going more and more upstack with our infrastructure, including our Purity operating system, our Portworx Kubernetes technology, and our all-flash data center technology. We are updating our operations and automation capabilities with our new Pure Fusion SaaS management and new Portworx data services,’ says Ajay Singh, Pure Storage’s chief product officer.
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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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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