In this podcast we interview Paula Long, CEO and Co-Founder of DataGravity. DataGravity offers insight, analysis and protection of data via their combination of hardware and software. Primarily targeted toward organizations that have a large amount of unstructured data, especially if they're regulated, DataGravity is unique in their ability to understand what is being stored
Seagate Technology released its second quarter earnings for 2016 with revenue being up from the previous quarter but down from this time last year. Seagate’s second quarter earnings are about on par with WDC’s 2Q. In other words, their results are not fantastic but they are leaning more positive than say Nimble’s Q3 or Violin Memory’s Q3.
WDC posted its second quarter earnings that were not as good as the company most likely hoped. While the news reported hasn’t been nearly as bad as say Nimble’s Q3 or Violin Memory’s Q3 it wasn’t nearly as positive as EMC’s 4Q and Full-Year earnings. It’s not all bad for Western Digital, in October they were given the go ahead
Today Synology Inc. announced the release of its latest DiskStation, the DS216+. Aimed at small office and home offices (SOHO), the DS216+ is a 2-bay NAS server that is designed to protect, store, and share their data. The NAS offers customers a powerful and power efficient device that can also transcode videos on-the-fly. Like all
Today Panzura announced the release of its new UI that is Google Maps-based and will monitor, alert, and report for the entire Panzura Global File System, the CloudFS Console. With CloudFS customers will be able to manage globally distributed, cloud-integrated storage easily enabling them to take advantage of the cost benefits associated with the cloud.
Today Pivot3 announced that it would be acquiring the privately held NexGen Storage. Pivot3 is looking to combine NexGen’s dynamic all-flash arrays (AFA) and Quality of Service (QoS) abilities to its portfolio in what it clams to be the industry’s most complete set of dynamic hyper-converged solutions. This combined company will give businesses from mid-market up to
EMC has released its fourth quarter and full year earnings for 2015. Unlike several of the news pieces we’ve covered recently (such as Violin Memory, Nimble, and to a certain degree IBM) EMC’s earnings are looking pretty good. As the deal with Dell acquiring EMC for $67 billion is still going through according to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO,
IBM announced an open beta for its Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. The beta will allow users to test functionality and offer feedback for this new program. IBM will use the feedback to raise software-defined storage (SDS) to a higher level than just cost-effectiveness. IBM hopes to promote innovations in SDS that will improve overall
Today Datrium announced the general availability of its server powered storage system, the DVX. According to Datrium, the DVX is the 'first storage system to split server-powered speed from appliance-based durable capacity, dramatically simplifying storage performance management.” Datrium also claims that 32-host DVX can hit 1 million IOPS while using data-reduced commodity server flash capacity.
Today EMC in introduces the latest version of its EMC Elastic Cloud Software, version 2.2. According to EMC, ECS is a software-defined, object-based cloud storage platform that provides global, petabyte-level scalability with compelling economics to customers. With ECS’s latest up it makes another strong addition to EMC’s suite of software-defined storage (SDS) solutions.
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