This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cohesity raises $250 million in Series D funding. Samsung begins volume production on 16Gb, 64GB DDR4 RDIMM. Seagate releases 2TB SSD Game Drive for Xbox. Dropbox qualifies Western Digital Ultrastar Hs14 SMR HDDs. Commvault supports Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack. HYCU announces new patent. Pivotal has strong first quarter. Rubrik announces Alta 4.2. Synology releases Active Backup Suite.
Cohesity Raises $250 Million In Series D Funding
Cohesity announced that it has raised an additional $250 million in Series D funding. This brings their total raised to $410 million. This round of funding was led by SoftBank Vision Fund with strong participation from strategic investors Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
Samsung Begins Volume Production On 16Gb, 64GB DDR4 RDIMM
Samsung announced what it is calling an industry first with the volume production of modules containing a 16Gb monolithic 64GB DDR4 memory solution. These new RDIMMs are created specifically for enterprise and cloud applications. The HPE ProLiant DL385 Ben10 based on AMD EPYC CPUs is the first platform qualified for the new RDIMMs and will be shown at HPE Discover in Las Vegas.
Seagate Releases 2TB SSD Game Drive For Xbox
Seagate released a 2TB SSD version of its popular Game Drive for Xbox. Also available in a 500GB and 1TB capacity, the Game Drive allows for extra storage of Xbox Games and faster load times. The new drives are expected to be available this sumer for $150 for the 500GB, $300 for the 1TB, and $600 for the 2TB.
Dropbox Qualifies Western Digital Ultrastar Hs14 SMR HDDs
Dropbox has qualified the 14TB SMR HDDs, Ultrastar Hs14, from Western Digital, and deployed them. This will give Dropbox greater storage as well as better power efficiency.
Commvault Supports Cisco Integrated System For Azure
Commvault announced that it has expanded its support for solutions in the Cisco Data Center Infrastructure portfolio through qualifications on its data protection software, ScaleProtect. Scaleprotect now supports Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack. Commvaults tight integration with both Azure and Cisco makes it an ideal choice for data protection on the Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack.
HYCU Announces New Patent
HYCU has been awarded a new patent, Number 9,998,339. This patent is for application awareness for virtual infrastructure environments. According to the company, its Data Protection for Nutanix was uniquely designed to see through virtual machines to discover where every application is running and when a backup is initiated.
Pivotal Has Strong First Quarter
Pivotal went public a few months ago and is reporting a strong first quarter. The company reported revenue of $155.7 million (with expectations of $157-$159 million next quarter) and a net loss of $0.31/share GAAP that beat expectations. More interesting for the company was the 20% year on year grown of customer subscriptions and the 156% dollar-based net expansion rate.
Rubrik Announces Alta 4.2
Rubrik announce the 4.2 release of its cloud data management platform, Alta. Features include:
Synology Releases Active Backup Suite
Synology released two new applications in its Active Backup Suite: Active Backup for Office 365 and Active Backup for Business. Key features include:
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