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Druva Hits $2B Valuation With New $147M Funding
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘With the growth and momentum in the market and the growth in our platform, this is the right time to double down and invest into better innovation, better channel partners, better marketing options, international expansion, all those areas we had already been doing, but on a larger scale,’ says Druva CEO and Founder Jaspreet Singh.
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Digital Compliance: Veritas Builds Full Tech Stack, Goes All In
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘With the new normal in the workforce, no business can afford to not be concerned about digital compliance. It’s a $6-billion business now, and will grow to $10 billion in the next few years. This is very much front and center with what we are trying to do,’ says Ajay Bhatia, general manager Veritas’ digital compliance business.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending April 16, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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2021 Storage 100: The Data Conversation Starts Here
by Joseph F. Kovar
How storage is deployed rests with solution providers assessing exactly what their customers are trying to accomplish. These 100 companies aim to be part of that discussion.
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Calamu Exits Stealth With ‘Ransomware-Immune’ Storage Platform And An Eye On The Channel
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We’re heading towards an MSP play. There will be service revenue opportunities. Calamu doesn’t have its own cloud, so the channel will set configuration,’ says Paul Lewis, Calamu co-founder and CEO.
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Western Digital, Micron Eyeing Kioxia Acquisition: WSJ
by Joseph F. Kovar
The possibility that Micron or Western Digital might acquire flash memory and SSD manufacturer Kioxia for perhaps $30 billion comes at a time when the United States is looking at ways to lower its reliance on foreign production of semiconductors and other critical components.
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StorMagic Acquires SoleraTec For Edge Data Protection, Archiving
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘SoleraTec brought to us this ability to tier data between different classes of storage. The differentiator here is that we can move these bit objects of video from disk to tape to optical to the cloud, whatever the customer wants. The point is, get it off the expensive disk, because you don’t need it there all the time, and move it to lower-cost tiers, but always keep it active and available for searching,’ says Bruce Kornfeld, StorMagic’s chief marketing officer and chief product officer.
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Multi-Cloud Data Protection Vendor HYCU Closes $87.5M Funding Round
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘As the cloud and multi-cloud environments take root, the channel is evolving. There’s interest in supporting customers with storage for their journey to the cloud. We want to make sure the channel is a key part of our strategy and make sure it’s a primary driver of our strategy,’ says HYCU CEO Simon Taylor.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending March 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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Infrascale Intros New SSD-based DR Appliances
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Disaster recovery need the performance so customers can recover and quickly run at scale. We have a lot of customers in the engineering and aerospace industries who are running CAD (computer-aided design) all day. If they have a system go down, they need it up and running right away,’ says Parker Merrill, director of sales engineering at cybersecurity solution provider Simpatico Systems.
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Dell Partners Get 20 Points Upfront For PowerStore, PowerScale
by Mark Haranas
‘It allows us to be more competitive if we’re in there against Pure Storage or HPE or NetApp, it makes the deal more competitive from the get-go without having to go back and forward for additional approvals,’ says Josh Lee, director of sales at VirtuIT Systems.
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NetApp To Discontinue HCI Technology, Shift Focus To Project Astra For Managing Kubernetes
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The market is adopting Kubernetes. Hyperconverged infrastructure was a necessary form factor to help in adopting the cloud. But providing a box for servers to do that is not necessary,’ says Eric Han, NetApp’s vice president of product management for public cloud services.
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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.
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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.
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