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A data storage blog offering commentary on the storage industry, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at developments in storage management, SAN, NAS, backup, disaster recovery and storage strategy.
Recent Posts
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Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year
- Senior Managing Editor 19 Sep 2019 -
With unicorn status, Acronis funding to aid acquisitions, R&D
- Executive Editor 18 Sep 2019 -
Pure Storage revenue growth belies NAND pricing worries
22 Aug 2019
Do you have a great data storage product that first shipped or was significantly enhanced this year? If yes, we want to hear about it. There's just one week left to enter your outstanding product ...
There's a new unicorn in town. Cyber protection provider Acronis today closed a $147 million funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Founder and CEO Serguei ...
Pure Storage earnings were a mixed bag this week. The flash storage vendor said revenues grew 28% last quarter, but it cut revenue guidance for the second consecutive call, blaming imbalanced NAND ...
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Quantum data storage corrects earnings faults, waits for SEC
07 Aug 2019 -
NetApp storage adjusts to slowing global demand
04 Aug 2019 -
Commvault earnings disappoint; can SaaS save its butt?
31 Jul 2019 -
Toshiba to rename flash memory business Kioxia
18 Jul 2019 -
Pure Storage up, IBM down in external storage systems revs
07 Jun 2019 -
OwnBackup funding will drive further SaaS data protection
- Executive Editor 30 May 2019 -
DDN storage acquisitions continue with Nexenta pickup
07 May 2019
Quantum Corp. reached a milestone this week on its quest to regain its listing on New York Stock Exchange. The file and tape storage vendor restated several years of improperly reported earnings, ...
Are storage vendors starting to feel the pinch of macroeconomic pressures? If the most recent NetApp storage sales are a barometer, the answer seems to be a worrisome "yes." In advance of its full ...
Commvault is 0-for-2 so far under new CEO Sanjay Mirchandani. The data protection vendor reported earnings this week, falling below expectations for the second quarter since Mirchandani replaced ...
"Their rationale must have been that they wanted to keep the washing machines and the hard drives with the same company because they both spin around."
Despite a recent earnings miss, Pure Storage has cracked the IDC enterprise storage tracker for the first time to grab a share of fifth place in external storage systems revenue to tie IBM Storage. ...
As the software-as-a-service market expands, SaaS backup provider OwnBackup secured its largest funding round today and will use the money to expand its Salesforce data protection. The OwnBackup ...
DataDirect Networks keeps expanding by acquisition. The high-performance computing storage specialist this week made its third acquisition in the past year, picking up software-defined storage ...
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Cisco, Dell Technologies renew VxBlock dalliance
23 Apr 2019 -
Carbonite integrating Mozy backup, ending free edition support
- Executive Editor 12 Apr 2019 -
Google Cloud courts Actifio, HYCU for data protection
11 Apr 2019 -
Excelero strikes deal with Lenovo for NVMesh
10 Apr 2019 -
Carbonite and Webroot close deal, focus on ransomware
- Executive Editor 05 Apr 2019 -
NAS vendor RackTop Systems gets first funding haul
25 Mar 2019 -
With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing
13 Mar 2019 -
Vexata readies VX-Cloud architecture with server partners
11 Mar 2019 -
New Axcient CEO takes over at 'new company'
- Executive Editor 08 Mar 2019 -
Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019
- Executive Editor 18 Feb 2019 -
IBM storage revenues skid to the finish line
01 Feb 2019 -
Zerto IT Resilience Platform bends with Elastic Journal
- Executive Editor 31 Jan 2019 -
Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment
16 Jan 2019 -
Rubrik pockets $261M in funding to chase AI, ML techs
15 Jan 2019 -
Dell’s VMware, Nutanix duke out HCI market dominance
26 Dec 2018 -
Minio prepares new object storage dish for 2019
19 Dec 2018 -
HYCU goes deeper into Nutanix protection
18 Dec 2018 -
Legacy storage vendors gain in cloud era, IDC says
13 Dec 2018 -
Veeam updates Availability Suite 9.5, N2WS platform
- Executive Editor 07 Dec 2018 -
HubStor adds continuous data protection, version control
- Executive Editor 04 Dec 2018 -
Lagging Dell EMC midrange storage dampens upbeat earnings
30 Nov 2018 -
Actifio revenue up, seeks to align with DevOps, cloud
- Executive Editor 29 Nov 2018 -
Dell EMC AI reference architecture builds on Isilon all-flash
28 Nov 2018 -
Newisys no longer, OEM wants to be a Viking in storage
27 Nov 2018 -
Pure Storage points flash at AWS cloud
20 Nov 2018 -
Kaseya backup integrations a 'Done Deal'
- Executive Editor 19 Nov 2018 -
NetApp revenue keeps growing, but not as much
15 Nov 2018 -
ClearSky Data POPs corks over $20M funding
13 Nov 2018 -
Commvault staggers under weight of 'massive changes'
31 Oct 2018 -
Veeam CEO shakeup: Co-founder in, McKay out
- Executive Editor 30 Oct 2018 -
NetApp Insight: Yes, NetApp still sells hardware
30 Oct 2018 -
Security patch issued for Arcserve Unified Data Protection
- Executive Editor 29 Oct 2018 -
Quantum CEO ready to acquire to expand StorNext
22 Oct 2018 -
NetApp Insight 2018: A primer on storage for AI, flash-enabled cloud
19 Oct 2018 -
Ctera Networks snares $30 million in Series D funding round
12 Oct 2018 -
Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support
- Executive Editor 11 Oct 2018 -
Report: Support for high availability applications is 'mixed'
- Executive Editor 28 Sep 2018 -
Startup raises $60 million to grow Datrium DVX business
27 Sep 2018 -
Dell EMC, Nutanix share HCI market leadership
26 Sep 2018 -
NetApp Kubernetes Service launched to orchestrate containers
21 Sep 2018 -
Cloud storage startup Wasabi Technologies raises $68 million
19 Sep 2018 -
Economic impact of large capacity archival flash
13 Sep 2018 -
Dell EMC midrange convergence due in 2019
06 Sep 2018 -
Startup Infinite io ropes new investors for its cloud NAS controller
30 Aug 2018 -
Report highlights IT resilience shortcomings
- Executive Editor 30 Aug 2018 -
Tintri bankruptcy deal gives DataDirect an enterprise path
29 Aug 2018 -
Investors pour $94 million into Cloudian storage
29 Aug 2018 -
HPE storage decline offset by big data, converged demand
29 Aug 2018 -
Cisco HyperFlex bundles Veeam data protection
28 Aug 2018 -
Chambers signs on as Rubrik investor
23 Aug 2018 -
Pure Storage all-flash beats street, adds StorReduce dedupe
22 Aug 2018 -
Drobo, Nexsan HDD arrays merged in new holding company
21 Aug 2018 -
DRaaS Magic Quadrant shrinks; Microsoft, iland lead the way
- Executive Editor 20 Aug 2018 -
Revenue from NetApp all-flash spikes on strong demand
16 Aug 2018 -
You'll never guess what people use Pure's FlashBlade to do
14 Aug 2018 -
Kaminario storage goes for a run on Western Digital OpenFlex
13 Aug 2018 -
Violin Systems prepares NVMe launch, but not for drives
13 Aug 2018 -
Dell EMC Isilon, ECS gain ClarityNow for unstructured data
10 Aug 2018 -
CEO: Actifio funding round to help focus on customer growth
- Executive Editor 07 Aug 2018 -
Gartner: all-flash array market ‘visionaries’ include Tintri
27 Jul 2018 -
Commvault Advance still in neutral
26 Jul 2018 -
Veeam adds Nutanix AHV support, expands Office 365 backup
- Executive Editor 26 Jul 2018 -
Rubrik targets ransomware attacks with Polaris Radar
25 Jul 2018 -
Toshiba, Western Digital start shift to 96-layer BiCS flash
25 Jul 2018 -
Hedvig and Veeam integration converges storage, backup
- Executive Editor 16 Jul 2018 -
Cloudian storage adds file sync/share through partner
12 Jul 2018 -
Newest Dell EMC data protection appliance heads downstream
11 Jul 2018 -
New HPE SAN switch is based on Cisco Gen 6 FC technology
03 Jul 2018 -
With Tintri layoffs, hybrid vendor waves a final goodbye
29 Jun 2018 -
Commvault and Azure integrations drive data protection tasks
- Executive Editor 29 Jun 2018 -
WDC strives to become 'next great storage' company
28 Jun 2018 -
Tintri CEO Barton tells board: ‘I'm outta here’
19 Jun 2018 -
Maxta MxSP dons its Red Hat for container storage
13 Jun 2018 -
Rubrik Alta goes native for AWS EC2, adds MSP Envoy
13 Jun 2018 -
The Tintri storage hourglass is almost out of sand
12 Jun 2018 -
Cohesity backs up truck, unloads $250M in funding
11 Jun 2018 -
Networked storage systems revenue climbs, for most vendors anyway
11 Jun 2018 -
Dell, VMware likely held HCI revenue share leads
08 Jun 2018 -
Qumulo files away $93 million for QF2 expansion
06 Jun 2018 -
HPE adds bulk to M-series Ethernet SAN switching
05 Jun 2018 -
Dell EMC storage finally gains some post-merger market share
04 Jun 2018 -
Cloudian makes moves, keeps up with changing object storage market
04 Jun 2018 -
Crossbar ReRAM hits 1x nanometer process milestone
01 Jun 2018 -
Startup Komprise strikes reseller agreement with IBM
30 May 2018 -
ZertoCON 2018: IT resilience takes center stage
- Executive Editor 24 May 2018 -
NetApp CEO: Dell EMC ‘years behind’ us on flash, cloud
24 May 2018 -
HPE storage still on its Nimble high
23 May 2018 -
Pure Storage: flash is a means, not an end, to shared data
22 May 2018 -
Pavilion Data gets funded for NVMe-oF push
21 May 2018 -
Quest hopes NetVault Backup 12 can vault into enterprise
16 May 2018
Cisco and Dell Technologies may be rivals in the server business, but when it comes to converged infrastructure, the two vendors remain strong partners. Cisco, EMC and VMware in 2009 formed VCE, a ...
Carbonite will end support for the free edition of Mozy's consumer product on Monday. The cloud data protection heavyweight would like to convert remaining Mozy customers onto its own ...
While Google made a big deal of working with open source software companies at its Google Cloud Next Conference, it also has been lining up data protection partners. Secondary storage management ...
Startup Excelero snared Lenovo as its first major server partner to resell its software that can pool ultra-fast NVMe-based storage resources across a network. Lenovo has added Excelero's NVMesh ...
After closing its largest acquisition, Carbonite said it will emphasize, at least initially, a "do-no-harm" method in the integration efforts. In a deal that closed March 26, the backup and ...
RackTop Systems has racked up its first round of outside capital, six years after launching its “cyber-converged" BrickStor NAS appliances. The Fulton, Md.-based vendor received $15 million in a ...
Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ...
Vexata is thinking outside the box. The NVMe all-flash array vendor is sampling VX-Cloud Data Acceleration Platform reference architecture with major server vendors. The hardware design combines ...
Axcient's new CEO started this week at a company that has the same name as it did at its beginning but looks quite different after a recent merger. David Bennett, formerly the chief revenue officer ...
Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short. Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir ...
IBM storage hit another blue period last quarter. After pulling out of a revenue slump to start 2018, IBM last week closed an uneven year with declining sales of storage hardware, mirroring flat ...
Zerto is set to launch the latest incarnation of its flagship product that converges backup and recovery, and will enable users to recover to a point in time going back years. Zerto 7, the new ...
One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a billion dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much. Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested ...
Rubrik, which helped change the role of backup in data management, is shopping for new technologies for its Cloud Data Management platform. Rubrik today said it completed a whopping $261 million ...
Major storage and server vendors are angling for position in hyper-converged systems. But as has been the case for a while, the jockeying really is for who finishes in third place. The battle for ...
The CEO of object storage startup Minio wants to change the way people talk about his company in 2019, beginning with the way they say its name. Most people pronounce it “MIN-EO” but CEO and ...
HYCU, which sells data protection specifically designed for Nutanix hyper-converged systems, today enhanced features for backing up the platform it has hitched its wagon to. Comtrade Software ...
External storage systems are all-but-obsolete in the software-defined era. At least that’s the fable shared repeatedly across the industry. But cloud and enterprise customers are collaborating to ...
Veeam updates to its flagship product and AWS data protection include the ability to migrate old data to cheaper cloud or object storage. Update 4 of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 is scheduled to be ...
HubStor added continuous data protection and version control to its cloud storage platform. The continuous data protection (CDP) provides agentless monitoring of specific file system directories to ...
Dell EMC on Thursday reported nearly $4 billion in storage revenue in its most recent quarter, marking its third consecutive positive earnings in storage. But executives refrained from sharing ...
Actifio is looking to ride a DevOps wave to an initial public offering, but for now the data management vendor is concentrating on bolstering support of its customers and channel partners. Actifio, ...
For its AI product strategy, Dell EMC is pursuing the same approach it takes with other storage products. Namely, that it’s better to have multiples of similar storage gear than to leave a gap in ...
Sanmina Corp. subsidiary Newisys recently plunged into enterprise storage with an NVMe all-flash system. In a bid to extend its presence in storage, Newisys is now called Viking Enterprise ...
Pure Storage’s earnings report painted a sunny picture of revenues at the same time as the flash pioneer unveiled a cloudy focus on its product direction. Pure beat Wall Street expectations with a ...
The Kaseya backup line is growing, following the company's acquisitions of two data protection vendors. Now Kaseya is adding a program that guarantees customers to managed service providers. In ...
NetApp beat its guidance and analysts’ expectations for last quarter’s revenue and income, and also exceeded expectations for technology buzzwords used during its earnings call. “Our opportunity is ...
ClearSky Data today scored $20 million in funding and a partnership with Equinix to expand coverage for its managed storage services. New investor Pear Tree Partners participated in the funding ...
While going through a transition period, data protection vendor Commvault’s sales are still taking a hit. Commvault’s revenue for last quarter of $169.1 million fell $10 million below Wall Street ...
Veeam Software has reshuffled its executive team, promoting co-founder Andrei Baronov to CEO, while Peter McKay is no longer with the data protection company after 2 ½ years as an executive, ...
At the end of the final keynote at NetApp Insight last week, founder Dave Hitz decided to add some sanity lest people get the wrong idea about the vendor’s strategy. Hitz summed up the message at ...
Arcserve Unified Data Protection customers are being told to patch the backup platform after a security provider found issues that could leave data unprotected. The four vulnerabilities in Arcserve ...
Jamie Lerner’s first 90 days as Quantum CEO confirmed the idea he had about the company when he took over. Discussions with customers convinced Lerner that Quantum’s greatest strength and greatest ...
LAS VEGAS-NetApp expects about 5,000 customers and partners to gather here Monday as it lays out a roadmap for flash-enabled AI and cloud applications. NetApp Insight 2018 marks the fifth year the ...
Ctera Networks CEO Liran Eshel said his cloud file system company became cash flow positive this year, but it grabbed $30 million in new funding to grow as part of a booming market. Ctera Networks ...
Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ...
What are high availability applications if they're not highly available? According to a report released this month by SIOS, in partnership with ActualTech Media, one-quarter of respondents say ...
Datrium's latest $60 million funding will fuel its hybrid cloud computing and data management product line and business expansion into Europe. The Series D funding round boosted the Sunnyvale, ...
Dell EMC extended its lead over Nutanix in hyper-converged systems sales in the second quarter, although Nutanix crept ahead of Dell-owned VMware into first when the market is measured by HCI ...
NetApp launched its Data Fabric architecture to adapt its storage to manage applications built for the cloud. Container orchestration had largely been a missing aspect in Data Fabric, but the ...
Newcomer Wasabi Technologies will try to build up its brand recognition and take on the Big Three public cloud providers after raising $68 million in Series B funding. “You don’t go up against ...
Quad level cell flash technology is leading to high capacity flash devices that have applicability in archival storage or content repositories that are primarily read access. Currently at 96 ...
The long-awaited convergence of the Dell EMC midrange storage into one platform will happen in 2019, according to Dell Technologies’ chief storage honcho. Jeff Clarke, VP chairman of products and ...
Sometimes a storage startup makes a bang, fades into the background, and you forget about it – until the company snares a passel of new investors. That was the case with NAS controller specialist ...
In "The State of IT Resilience," analysis firm IDC estimates that as many as 50% of organizations could not survive a disaster event. A co-author of the report says long-time threats of hardware ...
After weeks of uncertainty, the Tintri bankruptcy saga has been resolved. DataDirect Networks (DDN) said it will pay nearly $60 million for Tintri and plans to reveal the product roadmap by ...
The record $94 million funding round that Cloudian trumpeted today suggests investors have plenty of interest in highly scalable object storage and distributed file systems. Cloudian sells turnkey ...
What does a vendor do when storage sales lag projections? If you’re Hewlett Packard Enterprise, you blame it on potential vagaries in currency. On Tuesday, the Palo Alto, Calif, hardware maker ...
LAS VEGAS -- Unlike many of its data protection software rivals, Veeam Software has resisted putting its applications on a branded integrated appliance. Instead, it partners with large and small ...
A year ago at VMworld, Rubrik introduced 6-foot-11 Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant as an investor and board advisor. The converged secondary storage vendor’s newest money man and advisor ...
Pure Storage all-flash sales helped the vendor close a strong quarter in July, generating $309 million to beat its top-end guidance. The revenue figure represents a 37% increase from the $224.7 ...
If you’re a struggling niche disk array vendor, what's the next step you take to survive? You combine your HDD arrays with another disk vendor in the same boat. That's what low-end NAS vendor Drobo ...
Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for disaster recovery as a service made 13 vendors disappear. Gartner also thoroughly shuffled the deck among the remaining DRaaS Magic Quadrant survivors. Besides ...
Demand for NetApp all-flash storage surged last quarter, part of strong growth across its cloud portfolio that helped it beat guidance on earnings, margins and revenue. And the storage vendor has ...
Pure Storage is finding a use case for its FlashBlade array that no one expected when the all-flash system for unstructured data launched in 2016. Brian Schwarz, VP of product management for ...
Kaminario storage continues to push farther and farther away from its reliance on purpose-built hardware. The all-flash vendor has qualified its consumption-based Cloud Fabric software for Western ...
Violin Systems will make its first platform launch since its resurrection when it brings out a flash array with NVMe support on the front end for host connectivity in September. Violin CEO Mark ...
Dell EMC on Thursday picked up file software to help project teams access, control and manage unstructured data on heterogeneous storage. The deal for Agoura Hills, Calif.-based DataFrameworks is ...
Actifio today completed its second $100 million funding round in four years, as it moves closer to a possible IPO and seeks profitability and growth. The Actifio funding round increases the ...
Several vendors with spotty fiscal histories made Gartner’s list of competitors angling for all-flash array market share. Gartner listed Tintri as a “visionary” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for ...
Commvault’s retiring CEO Bob Hammer said the data protection vendor’s ongoing transition will produce long-term gains, although they will likely follow short-term pains. Commvault unveiled a series ...
Veeam Software has launched updates to its product line to increase platform support in recent weeks while continuing on a trajectory to becoming a $1 billion company by the end of the year. Veeam ...
Rubrik today added an application to its Polaris SaaS platform, with the goal of automating protection against ransomware attacks. Polaris Radar is the second Polaris application from the converged ...
New 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory is starting to roll out that can store more data per chip and potentially lower per-bit storage costs over 64- and 32-layer technologies. Toshiba Memory America ...
As an alternative to selling branded integrated appliances as most of its large competitors do, Veeam partners with as many hardware vendors as possible. Hedvig is the latest Veeam partner, now ...
Object storage startup Cloudian partnered with UK-based Storage Made Easy on file sync-and-share capabilities designed to target enterprises facing compliance requirements under the European ...
Until last year, Dell EMC data protection involved separate offerings of Avamar backup software and Data Domain deduplication appliances. The vendor changed that strategy in May 2017 with the ...
It may not set off fireworks, but Hewlett Packard Enterprise heads into the July 4 break with a finalized portfolio of Cisco-based StoreFabric Fibre Channel switching gear for its all-flash arrays. ...
A new round of Tintri layoffs has cost 200 people their jobs, including its top sales executive, as the hybrid vendor winds down operations. The move leaves Tintri with about 40 to 50 ...
Commvault has expanded its integration with Microsoft Azure Stack, also pulling its OEM partner Cisco into deal. With the Commvault Data Platform, enterprises using on-premises Azure Stack hybrid ...
Since its 2012 acquisition of hard disk drive rival HGST, Western Digital Corp. has bought more storage companies than any other vendor. Some of the deals were whoppers, such as the $19 billion ...
The captain of fast-sinking Tintri has abandoned ship, just three months after he came aboard as a lifesaver. Tintri CEO Thomas Barton, 54, informed the board of his decision on Monday, according ...
Maxta MxSP hyper-converged infrastructure is expanding integration with Red Hat. The software-only vendor has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which is built on Red Hat ...
The latest version of Rubrik Alta Cloud Data Management software adds data protection and management capabilities across clouds, for enterprise users as well as managed service providers. Rubrik ...
Time is winding down for Tintri, whose slow-motion fall could come by the end of June. The remaining question is whether the publicly traded hybrid storage vendor can complete a last-second Hail ...
Fast-growing secondary data storage vendor Cohesity closed a massive $250 million funding round today, a total that could give it enough capital to become a public company within a few years. ...
Cloud and software-defined products are eating away at traditional enterprise networked storage systems, but the latter category still represents a fairly robust market. In fact, the emergence of ...
While IDC probably won’t release its hyper-converged market share numbers for the first quarter until late June, it appears Dell will stay No. 1 on the HCI revenue hardware and software charts. IDC ...
Qumulo closed a $93 million funding round today, giving the scale-out file storage vendor “fuel” to compete with the established players in a rapidly expanding market. BlackRock Private Equity ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise expanded its M-series Ethernet storage switching with a smaller switch and orchestration software designed to improve management features for iSCSI SANs. HPE first ...
Dell Technologies on Monday projected positive share growth in enterprise storage, the first quarter that has happened since the Dell and EMC merger closed in 2016. The next question is whether the ...
The flurry of activity surrounding on-premise object storage specialist Cloudian suggests how rapidly the market has been moving during the last year. Cloudian CEO Michael Tso said 2017 was the ...
Crossbar recently chalked up another milestone in its quest to get on-chip non-volatile resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology to market. The Santa Clara, California-based startup licensed its core ReRAM ...
Komprise struck its first major reseller agreement, partnering with IBM to offer Komprise Intelligent Data Management software with the vendor’s storage portfolio. Customers can use Komprise ...
BOSTON – At the first ZertoCON in 2016, analyst John Morency said that "IT resilience" is becoming the new "disaster recovery." The concept at the time stressed continuous availability and ...
NetApp CEO George Kurian says things have never been better for the storage vendor since he joined the company in 2011. Kurian maintains NetApp’s all-flash platform is a hit, it’s the first major ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise extended its impressive storage turnaround last quarter. For the second straight quarter, HPE storage revenue increased 24% year-over-year – jumping to $912 million for ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Pure Storage will push the theme of a “data-centric architecture” at its annual Accelerate user conference that begins Wednesday. Data-centric architecture is Pure’s description for ...
As all-flash array pioneer Pure Storage celebrates its $1 billion in annual revenues, two of its former executives are planning the next big thing in flash. Pavilion Data, whose CEO Gurpreet Singh ...
While Veeam Software uses its VeeamON user conference this week to further its push into the enterprise, Quest Software is making its own attempt to go the same route with its NetVault Backup. ...