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Storage news ticker – February 9

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Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says…
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AirMettle touts parallel software storage architecture

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AirMettle has reinvented object storage for the analytics and generative AI era with a parallel software storage controller architecture delivering…

ionir helps train Israeli Defense Force through VR partnership

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The Israeli Defense Force is using Combatica's VR services to train its soldiers, and ionir Kubernetes data storage is part…

VAST Data picks up 6% of DC all-flash storage market, says tech analyst - or does it?

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VAST Data has a 6 percent share of the datacenter all-flash array storage market, a chart based on IDC numbers…

Pure Storage cuts workforce amid competitive pressures 

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Pure Storage has chopped up to 275 employees globally, marking another round of layoffs. Update: Zeoli attribution of VAST having…

Cohesity buying Veritas' data protection unit

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Data protector and manager Cohesity has confirmed an agreement to buy Veritas' data protection business. Update. Hyperconverged offering clarified. DataCo…

Qumulo CTO discusses the future of data storage

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Interview: Compared to file, object has simply become a protocol absorbed into an analysis solution, and proprietary GPUDirect will be…

NetApp, SpectraLogic link up for on-prem archival storage

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SpectraLogic is providing validated on-premises object archival storage on tape for NetApp StorageGRID systems as an affordable alternative to S3-based…

QiStor secures funding for key-value data store acceleration

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Startup QiStor has scored pre-seed funding to develop hardware acceleration for key-value data store access. Generalized server CPUs have been…

Komprise unveils elastic replication for non-critical data

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Komprise has pushed out elastic replication that it says provides more affordable disaster recovery for non-mission-critical file data at sub-volume…

Clean sweep for NetApp, Pure and Infinidat in GigaOm's mid-size primary storage Radar

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As in the enterprise storage Radar NetApp, Pure and Infinidat are the clear and only leaders and outperformers in GigaOm's…

NetApp and VAST Data take rivalry to the F1 racetrack

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NetApp has partnered with the Aston Martin Aramco Racing team and VAST Data is linking up with the Williams Racing…

Rubrik planning IPO after US fraud investigation completes

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Rubrik is planning an IPO in April when a fraud investigation in the US should be finished, according to a…

Data steward Rimage pivoting from optical disk publishing to data lifecycle management

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Established optical disc-based archiver Rimage is pivoting to data management with an AI-powered digital asset metadata extraction and search product…

Storage news ticker – February 4

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Data protector Acronis has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV)…

Weka bags another GPU-as-a-Service farm customer

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UK-based NexGen Cloud has signed up Weka to provide parallel access filesystem software for its GPU-as-a-Service customers, becoming Weka's third…

Ex-Veeam CTO set to rock up at Snyk

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Danny Allan, the now-former chief technology officer at Veeam, is moving to developer code security business Snyk.  Snyk’s CEO, Peter…

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