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Quantum hires Cisco exec as chief sales boss

On the back of reporting its first Q1 growth quarter since FY2017, Quantum has hired Cisco executive John Hurley to be its Chief Revenue Officer. John Hurley Hurley is - was - Cisco’s VP for the global commercial segment and that...

Cohesity’s worldwide sales boss takes a walk to ‘entirely different industry’

Michael Cremen, Cohesity’s Chief Revenue officer, is quitting the company for a new opportunity, the details of which have not yet been...

Public cloud Hotel California costing exposed

Storing a petabyte of data in an Amazon file system can cost 400 per cent more per month than storing it in...

OwnBackup dons tricorn hat after second mega-funding round

Not content with a $167.5 million fund raiser in January, OwnBackup has tapped VCs again to pull in another $240 million and...

Irish university buys StorONE array from recycled hardware supplier

Who knew you can build a storage array using recycled hardware? Apparently the University of Limerick has bought one from Wisetek with...

Epigram rules — Qumulo hardware business exit interview

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is a French epigram that means “the more it changes the more it stays...

Distributed OLAPer Kyligence accelerates core engine, adds real-time data support

Chinese American distributed OLAP startup Kyligence has accelerated its core engine, added real-time analytics, and put storage tiering in place to support...

Three go mining for backup gold: Arcserve, Nutanix and Sophos

Arcserve has announced N-Series appliances, delivering integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise customers, thus joining Veeam, HYCU and Commvault,...

Quantum turns the revenue corner as it develops cold Storage-as-a-Service

Quantum grew first quarter fiscal 2022 revenues 22 per cent year-on-year with a high hyperscale customer order rate and a growing backlog...

Qumulo follows Silk and VAST Data — exits hardware business

Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo is exiting the hardware business, adding Supermicro to its hardware supply partners, and betting its SW will lift its business to success. After supplying combined...

MinIO: the smartphone camera of object storage

MinIO wants to be the smartphone camera of object storage — in that millions of smartphone cameras destroyed the traditional camera industry. Consumers have largely stopped buying cameras...

The Uberisation of storage

Having direct control over your own storage assets is a responsibility some organisations view as a regrettable burden. They are attracted to the idea of paying for on-premises storage like they would...

Sustained disk drive industry growth alert

Contrary to some analysts’ expectations, the hard disk drive (HDD) industry is now moving to a period of sustained year-on-year capacity, units and revenue growth. That’s the view of...

Your occasional storage digest with Ahana, Egnyte, FalconStor and Netlist, Varada and a tad more

A data lake analytics startup springs on to the stage with a fast funding round following its founding (nice alliteration — Ed). Ransomware attackers love architecture, engineering and construction firms. Recovering from...
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QLC at SLC speed: NEO Semiconductor’s X-NAND flash speeds up tech

NEO Semiconductor has patented X-NAND tech to accelerate SSD writes fifteenfold, and shrink die sizes. Two patents were awarded on August 5.

Kubernetes storage: SmartX’s IOMesh beats Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS

China-based SmartX has released a preview of its Kubernetes storage software IOMesh, and it outperforms Pure’s Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS on MySQL...

High-capacity disk ships drive Western Digital revenues to three-year high

18TB nearline disk drives led Western Digital’s revenue charge in its beat-and-raise fourth fiscal 2021 quarter, with gross margin improvements leading to...