Data Storage

Veeam Gets Massive $500 Million Funding, Sets Sights On R&D, Acquisitions For Future Growth

by Joseph F. Kovar
Veeam, which previously had $32 million in funding and which currently has $800 million in cash, wants to work closely with its primary investor on scaling the company and developing cloud-based data management technologies required for the next 10 years.
Investors Make Huge $261 Million Bet On Rubrik

by Joseph F. Kovar
The investment comes from some of the industry's top investment firms including new investor Bain Capital Ventures, a fact that Rubrik partners say shows investor and customer confidence in the company’s data management platform.
Assurance Software Acquires U.K.-Based ClearView

by Joseph F. Kovar
Assurance Software, formerly known as Strohl Systems before it was acquired by Sungard AS and then spun out in May as a separate company, is now the world's largest global provider of business continuity solutions, its CEO claimed.
New 'Container-Based' Dell EMC Midrange Storage Debuts In 2019

by Mark Haranas
‘It is going to be a modern file system and modern software stack – better described as, it's going to be a micro-service-based architecture and a container-based architecture,’ says Jeff Clarke, vice chairman of Products & Operations at Dell.
MSPs Need To Help Customers Get Control Of Files For Collaboration, Sharing

by Joseph F. Kovar
Qnext's Tom Ward told MSPs at the NexGen 2018 Conference that it is important to help customers secure their data, especially with an on-premises offering, before they open files to sharing and collaboration.
StorageCraft To MSPs: Make Disaster Recovery Top Priority Before Disasters Happen

by Joseph F. Kovar
StorageCraft's new data protection suite, featuring software-based backup and recovery for physical and virtual environments and hardware appliances for local protection with a tie to the cloud, helps MSPs talk disaster recovery with clients.
Axcient Looks To Fill Holes In Office 365 Data Protection

by Joseph F. Kovar
Office 365 users face several hurdles when it comes to protecting their data that Axcient said are not addressed natively in that application, but MSPs can mitigate them by bundling Axcient technology with their services, the company said.
IBM, Nvidia Partner On New Converged Infrastructure Optimized For AI

by Joseph F. Kovar
The IBM SpectrumAI combines IBM's FlashSystem all-flash storage and Nvidia's DGX-1 GPU-based server technology in a platform the company says will meet the needs of artificial intelligence-based workloads.
5 Storage Surprises AWS CEO Andy Jassy Launched At His re:Invent Keynote

by Joseph Tsidulko
Andy Jassy dived into numerous new storage offerings AWS introduced at its re:Invent conference.
Red Hat Eyes Enhanced Container Strategy With Acquisition Of Startup NooBaa

by Matt Brown
The company intends to use NooBaa's technology to bring a ‘comprehensive set of data services’ to its storage portfolio, including Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage.
Amazon Intros Intelligent Tiering For S3 Storage To Optimize Cost

by Joseph F. Kovar
The cloud giant's new S3 Intelligent-Tiering class of storage features the same latency as its Standard class, but automatically moves data between two separate tiers depending on how frequently it is accessed. But it may not be the right class for all data.
Pure Storage Makes Huge Bet On Hybrid On-Prem, Cloud Data Management

by Joseph F. Kovar
Pure Storage wants to make it easier for clients of its high-performance all-flash storage to run that storage and manage their data natively in AWS, and took its first big steps with the introduction of Cloud Block Store for AWS, CloudSnap, and StorReduce.
HPE Launches Dedicated North America Storage Business Unit

by Steven Burke
The new 550 employee unit – which is aiming to grow the storage business at 25 percent in the current fiscal year – is doubling the incentives for new customer wins for partners.
HPE Ups Its Management Game With Expansion Of InfoSight To Cover Server Environments

by Joseph F. Kovar
HPE InfoSight, originally designed for Nimble Storage environments and later expanded to HPE 3Par storage, is now bringing its artificial intelligence-based management and proactive problem-detection capabilities to HPE server environments.
Goodbye eFolder, Hello Axcient: Merged Company Rebrands, Intros Suite With Products From Both

by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Financially, we're healthy. Both Axcient and eFolder were profitable. But our focus isn't on profits, though. We expect to make more investments in the partner experience, R&D, and scaling the products,’ says Eric White, Axcient CEO.