Yesterday, Pure Storage announced the pricing of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) at $17 a share for 25 million shares. We first mentioned Pure filing for its IPO in August. This was immediately met with criticism surrounding how Pure was reporting (or failing to acknowledge errors in) its sales data, prompting Gartner to apologize over their reporting.
Today CTERA Networks announced that it will be supporting Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) recently announced Amazon Simple Storage Service Standard-Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard-IA). Earlier this week, Veritas also announced support for this new storage service. CTERA’s platform integrated with S3 Standard-IA enables companies to “bring their own” virtual private cloud storage to power several file
Veritas Technologies LLC announced that it has upgraded its enterprise-class data protection solution, NetBackup, to version 7.7.1. This latest upgrade fully supports Amazon Simple Storage Service Standard-Infrequent Access (Amazon S3 Standard-IA). This upgrade gives Veritas customers an expanded choice for backup and recovery within Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Today Synology America Corp. announced that it will be making several changes in the coming year. The demands of both personal and professional technology are only going up and Synology is making changes to meet these demands. These changes include a new OS, DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.0, new advanced NAS products, apps for wearable devices
Yesterday we blasted DCIG for their inept attempt to provide a buyer's guide for all flash arrays. As it turns out, the report is worse than expected. Upon our post the author, Ken Clipperton, took to Twitter to defend the DCIG stance. Since then, the situation has devolved further, with multiple vendors pointing out that the report
Today IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cleversafe Inc. later this year. Cleversafe being a lead developer and manufacturer of object-based storage software and appliances will strength IBM’s position in storage and hybrid clouds. Once the deal is completed, Cleversafe will be integrated into IBM’s Cloud business. Financial terms
Last week DCIG published their "2015-16 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide." We've grown accustomed to ignoring most "Magic" and "Best Of" quadrants and awards respectively because almost every time they're garbage. Analysts or media members anoint some vendor or technology best, shiniest, most rectangle or whatever else they can come up with to promote their own
Today Avere Systems introduced a new file storage application for Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFusion. This new solution features all the simplicity of a NAS while leveraging three tiers of Amazon storage. CloudFusion uses the performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and the cost-effectiveness Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Today Avere Systems announced that it is expanding some of its offerings for Google Cloud Platform. These will include support for a new instance, the ability to use Local SSD as the Edge filer cache, and additional support for Google Cloud Storage in the introduction of Nearline and Durable Reduced Availability (DRA) storage options. Avere
Today NETGEAR Inc. announced that it was expanding its ReadyNAS line for home and small office with two new Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, the 2-bay ReadyNAS 212 (RN212) and the 4-bay ReadyNAS 214 (RN214). Both of the new NAS units use a quad-core 1.4GHz ARM Cortex processor that allows them to deliver real-time 1080p
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