Nasuni makes new board hire after bumper 2022

Nasuni cloud file services proved popular in 2022 with a 52 percent rise in customer numbers to almost 750, according to the privately-owned company's figures. CEO Paul Flanagan said: “Nasuni has grown by over 70 percent to almost 500 employees since the beginning...

Western Digital quietly producing dual-actuator disk drives

Western Digital is making a dual-actuator disk drive, the DC HS760, two years or more after Seagate introduced its twin-actuator MACH.2 tech...

NetApp wages ONTAP war on Dell and Pure

NetApp is presenting itself as the leading storage innovator compared to Dell and Pure Storage, with charts showing them lagging behind on...

LucidLink in depth: egress charges and direct bucket access

This is the second part of our introduction to LucidLink Filespaces technology and where it's going. Part one gave an account of...

LucidLink keeps remote workers in sync – fast

Cloud file services startup LucidLink tripled in size over the past year, keeping remote media content workers fed fast with data through...

Velero headache for Kasten, Portworx, Trilio

Velero is a startup open source project that thinks it could replace the container data protection technology of Veeam's Kasten business unit,...

Commvault in the market for new CMO

Commvault has confirmed that Isabelle Guis is leaving her chief marketing officer (CMO) role and a spokesperson said a transition announcement will...

Sysdig’s open-source Falco draws on AIOps, data security to fight ransomware

Analysis: Falco, the open-source threat detection engine used by Sysdig, has extensibilty to AIOps and data security and could help combine them...

A Western Digital, Kioxia merger? There would be pain points

Comment Against reports of a nearing merger of Western Digital and Kioxia, B&F is reviewing the implications and some of the difficulties that...

Seagate reports first loss in years

HDD vendor Seagate recorded a 39 percent drop in revenues for its second fiscal 2023 quarter, chalking it up to an adverse economic environment. For the quarter ended December...

NetApp discontinues Astra Data Store

NetApp has discontinued the Astra Data Store product, which provided Kubernetes persistent storage for the NetApp BlueXP data management layer, leaving ONTAP as sole provider. Astra Data Store, launched...

Pure’s full portfolio-selling sales force

Pure Storage reckons that its sales org should sell the entire product portfolio in its fiscal 2024 and thereby increase their reach. Update: Email author corrected to Dan FitzSimons,...

A block data migration specialist talks about … block data migration

We had the opportunity to run an email interview with Mark Greenlaw, VP of market strategy at Cirrus Data and asked him questions to find out more about where block-based migration fits...

Out of the blue Komprise gets $37 million funding raise

File data management startup Komprise has raised $37 million in its first fund raiser since 2019. Komprise’s Intelligent Data Management (IDM) product manages and monitors unstructured data estates for...
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Dell OneFS 9.5 is a streamer screamer

OneFS 9.5, the latest PowerScale OS version, provides a claimed 55 percent in streaming data access speed plus cyber resiliency improvements.

Pure Storage unifies global go-to-market team

Pure Storage has confirmed to B&F that it has broken up its specialist regional FlashBlade sales teams amid the creation of a...

DataCore expands archiving with Object Matrix

Storage software supplier DataCore is buying media and entertainment object storage supplier Object Matrix. DataCore supplies block (SANsymphony), file...