StorONE, a new SDS gem

Founded in 2011 by Gal Naor, who has founded Storwize in 2004 and sold it later in 2010 to IBM for $140 million, StorONE has made huge efforts to disrupt the market and the result is quite significant in term of approach and price, delivering the...

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Gartner continues to produce a bizarre Magic Quadrant for Distributed File System and Object Storage

Gartner just released a few days ago its 2017 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File System and Object Storage and we have some comments about this report as many things have surprised us this year but also last year. If we need to summarize or qualify...

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24th IT Press Tour edition with a second visit in Israel

For the second time, The IT Press Tour travelled to Israel for a unique tour. This 24th edition gave us the opportunity to meet and visit 9 innovative companies in Security, Big Data, IoT, Cloud and Storage. Here is a short summary: Axonius is a...

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NGINX recruits Rob Whiteley as CMO

NGINX (www.nginx.com), provider of critical services for the modern web, just recruited Rob Whiteley as CMO. The mission of Rob is clearly to accelerate what was done in the company in the past especially with the recent launch of the NGINX Application...

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Miracle, OpenIO raised $5M

OpenIO (www.openio.io), the late comer open source object storage player, from France, just raised $5 million from Partech and a few other investors. This is just incredible confirming that investors have some difficulties to understand the storage...

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IT Press Tour #24 back to Israel for the second time

The IT Press Tour (www.itpresstour.com), the leading press event for EMEA press, confirmed again participating companies for the edition scheduled next week in Israel. Top European journalists will have the opportunity to meet and visit leaders and...

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Formation Data Systems technology is still alive

We recently covered and anticipated the shutdown of Formation Data Systems, a multi-protocol SDS, and we can reveal now that the technology, IP, some assets and 8 engineers belong to eBay. It also means for other vendors that, a priori, there is perspective...

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Next phase soon for WekaIO

WekaIO (www.weka.io), pioneer of a new generation of scalable file storage for a the new data age, was present recently at the SNIA SDC Conference and participate to the SNIA SMB3 Plugfest. We had the chance to meet and discuss with Liran Zvibel,...

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Hitachi unveiled a piece of the object storage future

Recent Hitachi (www.hitachi.com) NEXT conference in Las Vegas offered the opportunity to understand the vision of the company about Object Storage. In a few words, facts, reality and directions: Hybrid storage is a reality largely promoted by...

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New CPO for Nasuni

Nasuni (www.nasuni.com), i.e “NAS UNIfied”, one of the few historical cloud gateway players with CTera Networks, Panzura, TwinStrata (acquired by EMC in 2014) and StorSimple (acquired by Micorosft in 2012), just recruited Russ Kennedy, a strong well-respected...

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DriveScale shakes its leadership

DriveScale Inc. (www.drivescale.com), player in software composable infrastructure to deliver a modern IT adaptive approach, just announced the appointment of Alan Butler as VP global alliances and business development and Herb Cunitz, former president...

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Minio announced $20M funding

Minio (www.minio.io), fast emerging open source object storage player, announced recently a new VC round of $20M for it series A following a seed round of $3.3M in July 2015. Total is now $23.3M. We see Dell Technologies and Intel Capital in addition...

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