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VeeamON 2018: Beyond availability and data protection
- Editorial Director 15 May 2018 -
OwnBackup GDPR features seek to aid compliance
- Editorial Director 11 May 2018 -
Unitrends VMware backup takes swipe at Veeam
- Editorial Director 25 Apr 2018
CHICAGO – Veeam unveiled a copy data management feature at its VeeamON 2018 user conference Tuesday as part of its newly branded Hyper-Availability Platform. Veeam DataLabs, part of the vendor's ...
With two weeks to go before the compliance deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation, cloud-to-cloud backup vendor OwnBackup is helping its customers prepare for the comprehensive set of ...
The Unitrends VMware backup product that launched today is going directly after one of the data protection vendor's major competitors. VM Backup Essentials (vBE) converges many features the vendor ...
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Storage sales make IBM blue
18 Apr 2018 -
Scality Rings up $60 million funding round
17 Apr 2018 -
OwnBackup lands $15.5M to fund further SaaS backup
- Editorial Director 12 Apr 2018 -
Large investor Elliott challenges Commvault management
02 Apr 2018 -
Zerto replication backs IBM Resiliency Orchestration
- Editorial Director 02 Apr 2018 -
Gluster 4.0 updated for containers, cloud
30 Mar 2018 -
HYCU software becomes independent company
28 Mar 2018
After four straight quarters of growth, IBM storage hardware revenue crashed in the first quarter of 2018. IBM reported a 15% decline in storage hardware revenue, a drop that dragged the entire ...
With a fresh $60 million in funding, Scality CEO Jerome Lecat said he expects the object storage vendor to become profitable within two years. Scality, which launched its Ring object storage in ...
OwnBackup closed its largest funding round to date and will use it to propel product work and double employee headcount, the cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor said today. The $15.5 million ...
Investors cheered hedge fund Elliott Management’s disclosed stake in Commvault today, which will likely lead to a shakeup of the data management vendor’s management team and board. Elliott, citing ...
IBM has enlisted Zerto as the muscle behind physical and virtual data protection. The Zerto replication engine is powering IBM's Resiliency Orchestration disaster recovery as a service. IBM’s ...
The first major release of the open source Gluster distributed file system software since December 2009 takes aim at container integration and storage management improvements for hybrid and ...
Nine months ago, Comtrade Software launched HYCU software designed specifically to back up Nutanix hyper-converged systems. Now Comtrade Software has become HYCU. Comtrade Software today officially ...
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Symbolic IO becomes Formulus Black
21 Mar 2018 -
Ctera Networks CEO: enterprise subscriptions spiking
16 Mar 2018 -
Dell data storage remains the weak link in FY18 revenue
08 Mar 2018 -
Tintri flash sales won't keep CEO Klein in job much longer
06 Mar 2018 -
Imanis Data pulls in $13.5 million for databases protection
- TechTarget 05 Mar 2018 -
Pure Storage revenue tops $1 billion, says ‘hello’ to profit
02 Mar 2018 -
Komprise NAS migration leaves no data behind
01 Mar 2018 -
IT resiliency report: Downtime holding businesses up
- Editorial Director 28 Feb 2018 -
More Nimble, HPE storage revenue jumps 24%
23 Feb 2018 -
Pivotal move: Chad Sakac says Dell EMC in ‘rear-view window’
22 Feb 2018 -
Intel P4510 U.2 SSD ships with 64-layer TLC 3D NAND
15 Feb 2018 -
NetApp cloud-flash pivot brings cheers
15 Feb 2018 -
NVMe flash hopeful E8 Storage goes software-only route
08 Feb 2018 -
Caringo Swarm sales jumped 40% in 2017
- TechTarget 30 Jan 2018 -
Kaminario storage jettisons hardware for software-only cloud model
29 Jan 2018 -
Igneous Systems ingests $15 million funding for file data protection
29 Jan 2018 -
Report: Dell-EMC storage aftermath may trigger IPO
26 Jan 2018 -
Commvault earnings disappoint again
- TechTarget 25 Jan 2018 -
CEO refuses to confirm Primary Data shutdown reports
24 Jan 2018 -
Cohesity exec: Hyper-converged secondary storage more than a trend
- Editorial Director 23 Jan 2018 -
Annual IBM revenue rises, thanks to cloud, flash storage
22 Jan 2018 -
Alert: Dell EMC data protection patches Avamar security holes
05 Jan 2018 -
Digital transformation planning bumps into data management issues
- Editorial Director 04 Jan 2018 -
iXsystems: 'weird' but profitable NAS vendor
28 Dec 2017 -
Tintri cloud forecast: stormy, with slight chance of revenue
14 Dec 2017 -
NVMe-focused Toshiba storage node software due in '18
14 Dec 2017 -
Western Digital-Toshiba flash clash ends
13 Dec 2017 -
Dell EMC all-flash surge collides with softening storage demand
07 Dec 2017 -
Hedvig CEO: Who needs backups?
07 Dec 2017 -
Nexenta raises $20 million, shoots for cloud
30 Nov 2017 -
Barracuda Networks going private
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2017 -
Data recovery plans face tall task as storage levels grow
- Editorial Director 29 Nov 2017 -
Pure Storage revenue boost puts it on ‘march to profit’
29 Nov 2017 -
Like its CEO, HPE storage in transition phase
26 Nov 2017 -
NetApp revenue rides flash gravy train
16 Nov 2017 -
Amazon not to blame for S3 cloud storage lapses
- TechTarget 15 Nov 2017 -
Dell EMC: Big data lakes will like our Elastic Data Platform
14 Nov 2017 -
Commvault GO: ‘Sully,’ Swan emphasize good data’s value
14 Nov 2017 -
Nutanix backup choices expand
13 Nov 2017 -
Quantum CEO Gacek’s a goner after poor quarter
10 Nov 2017 -
SMB ransomware report: Attacks frequent, backups key piece
- Editorial Director 09 Nov 2017 -
SwiftStack objects to object storage label
02 Nov 2017 -
Elastifile scores OEM deal with Dell EMC
01 Nov 2017 -
Arcserve acquisition plans heating up
- TechTarget 01 Nov 2017 -
IBM Cloud Object Storage tweaked for on-prem, small footprints
- TechTarget 31 Oct 2017 -
Veeam revenue increases as enterprise deals grow
- Editorial Director 30 Oct 2017 -
Western Digital CEO vows to block Toshiba NAND sale
27 Oct 2017 -
Quest data protection management adds cloud portal
- TechTarget 26 Oct 2017 -
Can Commvault HyperScale cure sales slide?
24 Oct 2017 -
Infinidat boxes up $95M funding haul
03 Oct 2017 -
NetApp Insight: Las Vegas should have time to grieve first
02 Oct 2017 -
Dell EMC’s XC (Nutanix) HCI box protects MS Hyper-V VMs
27 Sep 2017 -
Enter Your Great Storage Product in the Products of the Year Competition
18 Sep 2017 -
Dell EMC storage gets new boss
18 Sep 2017 -
Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding
18 Sep 2017 -
Toshiba memory business sale points to Bain-led consortium
14 Sep 2017 -
Dell EMC Isilon helps preserve tennis history
14 Sep 2017 -
Spectra Logic BlackPearl NAS disk appliance launches
13 Sep 2017 -
Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise
07 Sep 2017 -
Dell EMC storage sags in the middle
07 Sep 2017 -
Tintri Enterprise Cloud Series federates 64 flash nodes
07 Sep 2017 -
HPE storage more Nimble after $1.2 billion buy
06 Sep 2017 -
BackupAssist CryptoSafeGuard aids ransomware backup strategy
- TechTarget 06 Sep 2017 -
Elastifile grabs $16M to stretch sales staff
06 Sep 2017 -
Nutanix revenue jumps as competition grows
05 Sep 2017 -
VMworld 2017 Notes: Dell favors storage R&D over M&A
31 Aug 2017 -
Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in
25 Aug 2017 -
Cisco buys Springpath, brings HCI software in-house
21 Aug 2017 -
NetApp earnings lifted by all-flash sales
18 Aug 2017 -
Unitrends backup appliance products get hyped for Nutanix
- Editorial Director 16 Aug 2017 -
MozyEnterprise backup tool finds a new key for security
- Editorial Director 15 Aug 2017 -
Flash Memory Summit 2017: Flash really on fire
11 Aug 2017 -
Primary Data DataSphere upgrade follows funding grab
10 Aug 2017 -
NetApp cloud strategy includes SolidFire, SDS
31 Jul 2017 -
Commvault earnings: Sales gain ahead of product launches
- TechTarget 31 Jul 2017 -
WD-Toshiba memory sale requires 2-week notice to WD
28 Jul 2017 -
Axcient and eFolder merger gathers clouds, enhances data protection
- Editorial Director 28 Jul 2017 -
Seagate revenue slides, CEO Luczo says ‘see ya later’
25 Jul 2017 -
SoftNAS Cloud NAS software paces itself when moving petabytes
- TechTarget 25 Jul 2017 -
Symbolic IO CEO Ignomirello arrested on assault charges
21 Jul 2017 -
IBM flash storage and cloud rare revenue bright spots
- TechTarget 21 Jul 2017 -
Broadcom-Brocade deal delayed, with ‘no assurances’
19 Jul 2017 -
Veeam revenue benefits from more $1 million deals
- TechTarget 18 Jul 2017 -
OwnBackup funding drives further cloud protection
- Editorial Director 17 Jul 2017 -
DataGravity's data-aware storage scooped up by HyTrust
12 Jul 2017 -
Arcserve UDP gains cloud capabilities via Zetta acquisition
- TechTarget 11 Jul 2017 -
Nutanix .NEXT 2017 highlights HCI vendor's partners, frenemies
06 Jul 2017 -
Toshiba says enterprise demand remains for 15,000 rpm HDD
03 Jul 2017 -
Nakivo Backup & Replication 7.2 adds SQL support, management
- Editorial Director 30 Jun 2017 -
Tintri IPO aims at lower share price
29 Jun 2017
Symbolic IO has changed its name as part of “complete rebranding” months after its founder was arrested on a domestic violence charge. Symbolic IO is now called Formulus Black. The company made no ...
Ctera Networks claimed subscription revenue for its enterprise file services platform more than doubled in fiscal 2017, pushing the company to record results for the year. As a private company, ...
Finding a way to grow enterprise storage and data protection will comprise a major focus for Dell Technologies this year, company executives told analysts during an earnings call on Wednesday. Dell ...
Popularity of Tintri E6000 flash storage helped the vendor beat quarterly revenue and earnings estimates on Monday, but muting the upbeat tone was news of layoffs and CEO Ken Klein’s decision to ...
Imanis Data raised $13.5 million in a series B funding round and hired a new CEO as it aims to grow its business to protect next-generation NoSQL databases. The Imanis Data Management Suite ...
Pure Storage has joined the billion-dollar club. On Thursday, the all-flash provider completed two long-sought goals by posting fiscal-year revenue of $1.023 billion, up 41%, en route to achieving ...
Startup Komprise added NAS migration to its list of data management features in the new 2.7 release of its software. Komprise Intelligent Data Management customers can now migrate from one NAS ...
The intro to a recent IT resiliency report asks the question: "Is IT turbulence the new norm?" In a year marred by ransomware attacks large and small, catastrophic natural disasters and other IT ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage sales rebounded last quarter, thanks to the addition of Nimble Storage and an improvement of the 3PAR SAN platform. HPE storage revenue of $948 million grew 24% ...
The question ‘Where is Chad Sakac?’ got answered this week: by Chad Sakac. The former president of the Dell EMC converged infrastructure division (formerly known as converged platforms) said he ...
Intel launched a new P4510 Series of U.2 solid-state drives (SSDs) equipped with its 64-layer triple-level cell (TLC) 3D NAND flash and enhanced firmware, enabling greater storage density and lower ...
NetApp attributed strong product revenue growth last quarter in part to two-a-days – it’s averaging two displacements of rivals’ all-flash SAN systems every day. Success in NetApp cloud and flash ...
All-flash array startup E8 Storage has expanded into reference architecture with the launch of a software-only version. The new product, E8 Storage Software, runs on rack servers from Dell EMC, ...
Despite all the talk about object storage over the years, it has yet to push scale-out NAS out of the enterprise for storing files that take up hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of capacity. But ...
Kaminario is the latest vendor to deemphasize hardware in favor of a solely software-defined approach. Under its new strategy, customers will buy Kaminario storage as a reference stack from global ...
Igneous Systems today closed a $15 million Series B funding round to help expand marketing of its hybrid cloud backup and archiving platform for file data. Igneous Hybrid Storage Cloud consists of ...
Is the Dell EMC storage merger causing buyer’s remorse? According to published report, Dell Technologies is considering a return to the public market to satisfy the massive debt incurred from its ...
Commvault generated $180.4 million in revenue last quarter, which was its biggest revenue quarter ever but still missed Wall Street’s expectation of $182 million. The company blamed the small ...
Primary Data CEO Lance Smith has refused to confirm published reports that the storage software startup has closed shop. Reached Tuesday evening at his Primary Data office telephone number, Smith ...
A Cohesity executive wants to make something clear about the company's self-described product line. "Hyper-converged secondary storage is not a trend," chief marketing officer Lynn Lucas said. ...
Aided by gains in cognitive analytics, cloud and storage, annual IBM revenue has finally returned to positive territory after an absence of nearly six years. IBM last week closed its 2017 fiscal ...
Users of Dell EMC data protection are being urged to quickly patch three security flaws that could hijack Avamar-based products. The vulnerabilities revolve around Avamar Installation Manager, a ...
As businesses look to increasingly digitize their information, data management and data access are top concerns, according to a recent survey. "You can't be a digital business if you don't have ...
Here’s something you rarely hear from high tech companies today: “We’re a hardware company in our heart and soul.” That is how executive vice president Brett Davis introduced iXsystems during a ...
Flash storage vendor Tintri has had an inauspicious start to life as a public company. On Wednesday, during only its second earnings call, there were hints that Tintri may already be on life ...
Toshiba plans to deliver storage node software designed to extend the high performance and low latency benefits of NVMe-based solid-state drives over a network fabric. Toshiba Memory America’s ...
Western Digital and Toshiba settled their NAND dispute with an out-of-court settlement that allows Toshiba’s sale of its NAND chip business while WD keeps its stake in the companies’ joint venture. ...
Growth in Dell EMC all-flash storage is one of the bright spots in what remains a tough slog for legacy array vendors. Dell Technologies on Thursday reported consolidated revenue of $19.6 billion ...
Santa Clara, Calif. -- By now, most people realize this is the age of convergence in IT – especially as it applies to storage. We have converged infrastructure mixing storage, compute and ...
Bolstered by lead investor SoftBank Corp., Nexenta secured $20 million in financing this week to fund its new cloud portfolio. The Santa Clara, California-based storage software vendor next month ...
Barracuda Networks became the latest public technology vendor to go private when equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to pay $1.6 billion this week to acquire the security and data protection vendor. The ...
Too much data is weighing heavily on data recovery plans, according to a recent survey. The problem has scaled beyond what many organizations can handle, said Douglas Brockett, president of backup ...
Pure Storage hit a home run in its first quarter under CEO Charlie Giancarlo. Pure Storage revenue of $278 million last month exceeded the high point of its guidance and increased 41% from last ...
Meg Whitman says it’s time for “a new generation” to take over Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She was talking about the CEO change when she made that comment during the company’s earnings call last ...
NetApp is showing a legacy storage array vendor can still increase revenue impressively during these days of scant storage growth. NetApp Wednesday night reported its fourth straight quarter of ...
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has been giving big businesses –and their customers -- big trouble. It was reported earlier this summer that high-profile companies left data in their S3 ...
Dell EMC big data storage has a sharper focus. The vendor recently launched Elastic Data Platform (EDP), a series of reference architecture geared for Hadoop and related big data environments. EDP ...
We hear a lot of talk these days about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Those are hot and valuable technologies, but two speakers at Commvault GO last week highlighted the importance ...
Options for Nutanix backup are growing for customers using the hyper-converged vendor’s AHV hypervisor. At Nutanix’s European .NEXT user conference last week, backup software market leader Veritas ...
Quantum CEO Jon Gacek is out following poor sales results for the data protection and scale-out storage vendor last quarter. The Quantum board named director Adalio Sanchez as interim CEO. Chairman ...
Ransomware attacks on SMBs have increased, according to a recent survey, but backup and disaster recovery platforms can calm data protection fears. An estimated 5% of SMBs worldwide fell victim to ...
SwiftStack’s leadership team appreciated being selected a visionary in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. The vendor even put out a press release ...
Cloud NAS vendor Elastifile has struck an OEM deal with Dell EMC, one of the startup’s first investors. Dell EMC will integrate Elastifile Cloud File System and CloudConnect cloud transfer and ...
Arcserve is on the hunt to buy more companies. The data protection and recovery company already has made two acquisitions since becoming independent from CA Technologies in 2014. It bought cloud ...
With the latest upgrades to its object storage platform, IBM recognizes that not everyone who uses object storage does so in the public cloud. They don’t all start with hundreds of terabytes of ...
Highlighted by the largest customer deal in its history and a big bump in enterprise bookings, Veeam reported 34% year-over-year total bookings growth in the last quarter. There has been a push in ...
Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan said he remains confident his company will win its fight to prevent its NAND manufacturing joint venture partner Toshiba from selling its memory chip unit without ...
Quest Software, independent again after its spinoff from Dell EMC nearly a year ago, is building out its data protection portfolio with a new cloud-based management console. The Quest Data ...
Following six straight quarters of making or beating expectations, Commvault stumbled last quarter when it missed its targets for revenue and income. The backup and data management company today ...
Infinidat picked up $95 million in funding today to help fuel an aggressive product expansion – including moves into secondary storage and a public cloud offering. Goldman Sachs Private Capital ...
LAS VEGAS - This blog was supposed to tell our readers about the big developments surrounding Day 1 of the NetApp Insight user conference. Sadly, today’s subject matter touches on more sobering ...
Dell EMC today enhanced its Nutanix-powered XC hyper-converged platform by adding data protection features for Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. The news, made during Microsoft Ignite, shows Dell EMC is ...
In just a few days, the door will shut—and your outstanding data storage product will be left standing out in the cold rather than in the running for a Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage ...
Of all the EMC executives who left the company since the Dell acquisition, the departure of David Goulden will have the greatest impact on the Dell EMC storage business. Dell dropped the news that ...
Cloud-based file service provider Nasuni last week closed on $38 million in funding to boost its expansion plans in research and development and its channel and go-to-market efforts. The Goldman ...
The Toshiba memory business could be sold to a Bain Capital-led consortium that reportedly includes Apple, Dell Technologies and Seagate if the parties can strike a deal that passes legal muster ...
At the U.S. Open tennis tournament last week, Rafael Nadal solidified his Hall of Fame credentials and Sloane Stephens became a hall of fame candidate. And the International Tennis Hall of Fame ...
Spectra Logic has added a midrange BlackPearl NAS disk appliance to augment its tape-based object storage. Spectra Logic launched the object-based BlackPearl line as a linear tape file system ...
Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ...
What do you do when storage sales slow down? If you’re Dell EMC, you add velocity to the sales process. “Storage velocity” was a frequently used term during Dell’s earnings call this morning. On ...
Flash vendor Tintri in July expanded storage clustering to enable customers to build a massively scalable private enterprise cloud. On Tuesday, the Tintri enterprise cloud strategy added another ...
HPE storage sales received a boost last quarter from its $1.2 bilion Nimble Storage acquisition. HPE did not break out its total storage revenue by product, or even give a total amount except to ...
Windows data protection specialist BackupAssist is the latest vendor to provide a capability that helps combat ransomware. The Australia-based company recently launched CryptoSafeGuard, part of its ...
Startup Elastifile, which sells a distributed file system that spans flash and cloud storage tiers, picked up $16 million in funding today. The startup also gained a new strategic investor in ...
Hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix grew revenue 72% in its first year as a public company. Nutanix revenue grew to $767 million during a span in which competition intensified. Dell EMC, Hewlett ...
LAS VEGAS -- Before their merger, EMC and Dell were active buyers of storage companies. In the past year, neither has made an acquisition. That’s understandable, considering the price that Dell ...
Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen resigned unexpectedly Thursday, as the all-flash pioneer named former Cisco executive Charlie Giancarlo its new leader. Dietzen will stay at Pure as chairman, ...
Cisco re-confirmed its hyper-converged infrastructure strategy today by acquiring its HCI software partner Springpath for $320 million. The Cisco HyperFlex HCI appliance consists of Springpath ...
Strong all-flash sales and a new niche acquisition highlighted the NetApp earnings call this week. The vendor on Wednesday reported net revenue of $1.33 billion, up 2% year over year and above the ...
Unitrends backup appliance products will go where some vendors have gone before -- supporting the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor – while adding a cloud twist. The company's Recovery Series backup ...
Dell EMC's Mozy has unlocked a new encryption key security feature for its enterprise backup product. MozyEnterprise now provides support for the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), ...
Any claims that "flash is on fire" at Flash Memory Summit 2017 this week drew awkward glances, nervous laughs or groans. That's because one flash system literally caught fire, causing the ...
Primary Data has beefed up storage analytics and cloud migration in its DataSphere virtualization platform. Now the startup is ready to dip into a fresh stash of cash totaling $40 million to ...
Created in the 20th century to sell storage to engineers, NetApp has survived for 25 years to remain the largest standing data storage company not tied to a server vendor. Founder Dave Hitz credits ...
Commvault Systems is inching back toward profitability after another strong quarter of growth as it continues to build out its business beyond its traditional data backup model. The company's ...
Toshiba and Western Digital's SanDisk subsidiary acted on a San Francisco judge's suggestion today and agreed that Toshiba would give SanDisk two weeks' notice before closing on a transfer or sale ...
Though they existed in the same general market, Axcient and eFolder had different technologies, different platforms and different customer bases. They're all the same now. Axcient and eFolder said ...
Seagate Technology changed its CEO, reported a revenue miss, and disclosed plans to cut 600 jobs -- all on the same day. The hard disk drive and systems vendor today said Dave Mosley, the company's ...
SoftNAS engineers encountered a problem early this year with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure clouds that caused a delay in the SoftNAS Cloud NAS 3.5 release. The engineers hit a snag while ...
Symbolic IO, identified as one of SearchStorage’s storage startups to watch in 2017, now bears watching for different reasons than the other vendors on the list. Brian Ignomirello, 46, the Symbolic ...
While IBM's revenue dropped for the 21st straight quarter, its storage business proved a bright spot. Following its own 22-quarter slump, IBM storage is now on a two-quarter winning streak. During ...
The $5.9 billion Broadcom-Brocade acquisition has been delayed 30 days, which may turn into a 75-day delay. That's if the deal happens at all. SAN switching vendor Brocade Tuesday evening said the ...
Veeam Software today reported a a 27% year-over-year increase in revenue growth for total bookings and 53% year-over-year growth for deals that are more than $100,000 during the second quarter of ...
Cloud-to-cloud backup startup OwnBackup plans to significantly expand following a $7.5 million Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. OwnBackup CEO Sam Gutmann said the company may ...
As a standalone company, DataGravity is no more. But the startup’s data-aware storage technology will live inside of HyTrust's cloud security products. HyTrust, based in Mountain View, Calif., ...
Arcserve today acquired cloud provider Zetta, adding a direct-to-cloud disaster recovery and backup capability to expand its reach for service providers. Arcserve, which spun out of CA Technologies ...
While Google's new partnership with Nutanix received a lot of attention at Nutanix .NEXT 2017, other partners of the hyper-converged vendor also made news at the user conference. Google SVP of ...
Tape isn't dead, and neither are 15,000 rpm enterprise hard disk drives. Not yet, at least. Toshiba recently began shipping a new AL14SX Series of 15,000 rpm HDD products designed for ...
With the latest sequel to its backup and replication software, Nakivo has added support for Microsoft SQL Server and more streamlined management, as it maintains a pace of releasing a product every ...
The Tintri IPO remains a go for now, but the flash vendor now expects less of a financial windfall than originally anticipated. The vendor's long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) of stock ...