NEC unveils a NAS Gateway

NEC (www.nec.com | TYO:6701), one of the largest IT vendors on the planet existing for more than a century, recently announced a new storage product able to extend the SAN portfolio. The product named the M Series NAS Gateway™ is the perfect companion of the M Series block array to deliver a Unified approach or just the file access mode.

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New entities for famous people

Just wish to share with you 3 new stories:

• Applatix (www.applatix.com), launched by Pratik Wadher, Ed Lee and Saradhi Sreegiriraju, coming from Tintri. The company is playing the the DevOps space.
• Nubeva (www.nubeva.com), led by Randy Chou, former Founder and CEO of Panzura, the famous leader in Cloud storage gateways. Nubeva play sin in cloud-based security. He starts the company with Greig Bannister, a former Aruba Networks colleague.
• Agylstor (www.agylstor.com) created by Frederic Roy Carlson with Janae Lee as Founder and CMO.

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On-Prem Cloud by Igneous

Igneous (www.igneous.io), finally unveils its product, I should say service, after several years of development. It's a huge announcement as the company is a pioneer in this new kind of storage service. The official name is Igneous Data Service.

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Veritas changes two key execs

Veritas Technologies (www.veritas.com), the leader in Enterprise Data Management, has just made some executives changes. It's a surprise these 2 names were very active during recent Veritas Vision conference. Ana Pinczuk, CPO, is replaced by Mike Palmer promoted as EVP and CPO from the SVP Insight and Orchestration group and Matt Cain, President WFO, is replaced by Tom Ashburn, EVP WFO. Wow it's a sudden move...

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IBM COS, confirmation of Cleversafe leadership

IBM (www.ibm.com | NYSE:IBM), the IT worldwide leader for decades, just announced a new flavor of its 2015 Cleversafe acquisition. Recognized multi years in a row as the best object storage product on the planet - no doubt, it is the real proven best existing object storage - IBM transforms dsNet product and offers it now as a service deployed in all its data centers named Cloud Object Storage or COS.

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Cache better than Flash with InfiniBox 3.0

Infinidat (www.infinidat.com), the alternative enterprise-class storage vendor, continues its journey to disrupt the market. Founded in 2011 by Moshe Yanai, the genius behind EMC Symmetrix and XIV, the company just introduced a new major iteration of its core software, represented by InfiniBox 3.0.

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LizardFS, an Open Source SDS again

LizardFS (www.lizardfs.com), name of an open source SDS developed by Skytechnology from Poland, continues to incrementally penetrate the market. Nothing really new with this product except it perfectly illustrates the dynamism of this segment and the penetration of open source and SDS and their close link. The project came from MooseFS that tries to clone Google File System.

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Kaminario adds Analytics to K2

Kaminario (www.kaminario.com), the leader in All-Flash Array and promoter of All-Flash Data Center, continues to enrich its K2 storage platform. The company just announced a cloud-based storage analytics platform named Clarity to simplify K2 management and monitor usages and consumption.

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