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10 Storage Startups That Are Coming To The Rescue
Joseph F. Kovar
These 10 startups have rolled out new products that are solving niche storage issues or tackling critical challenges that haven’t yet been resolved.

NEXUSTORAGE NEXFS
Nexfs intelligent software-defined storage from Wellington, New Zealandbased Nexustorage unifies block, file, cloud and object storage technologies, combining up to three tiers of storage into a massively scalable single pool of storage with data protection and automated data life-cycle management. The software, which works with standard x86 server hardware, can be licensed in capacities from 10 TB to 1PB.

NODEUM DATA MANAGEMENT
Liege, Belgium-based startup Nodeum is the developer of Nodeum Data Management software, which runs on the Linux platform and commodity hardware to provide a platform to optimize data movement, move inactive data to the secondary storage of choice, and virtualize data so it can be accessed and synced from anywhere.