Data & Storage News - Week #1 2022

BMC unveils new enhancements and capabilities for its BMC AMI and Compuware portfolios. The BMC Helix Discovery solution is able to map and visualize service dependencies across distributed systems and mainframe thanks to BMC AMI Ops product. Splunk is now integrated allowing comprehensive monitoring and security visibility. Also the Compuware tool is the first one to provide mainframe DevOps analytics to mainframe developers.

Hammerspace invests in people for 2022, first with Floyd Christofferson, now VP Product Marketing, he was CEO of StrongBox. Interesting move. Second, 7 board of advisors members with

• Bob Flores, Senior Partner with OODA consulting, Founder and CTO of Applicology Incorporated, Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Roxane Googin: Chief Futurist of Group 11, over 20 years' experience predicting macroeconomic technology trends as editor of The High Tech Observer
• Brendon Howe: Technology thought leader, VP/General Manager of Blockchain at VMWare, and former NetApp executive managing cloud data services and emerging products
• Kai Li: Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, prior Founder and Chief Scientist at Data Domain (now part of Dell EMC)
• Greg McGowan: Senior Strategic Advisor at Franklin Templeton Investments, previous Executive Vice President, Director and General Counsel of Templeton International, Inc.
• Eric Scollard: Global Sales Executive and Strategic Sales Advisor who has led high-performance sales organizations at Qumulo, ExtraHop, Bycast, Isilon Systems, IBM, and Veritas
• Eyal Waldman: Chairman Waldo Holdings, Former President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies.

Weka raised a series C with $73 million led by Hitachi Vantara for a total of $140 million. Amogn other investors we see investors some partners like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NVIDIA, Micron, and Digital Alpha, and financial investors including MoreTech Ventures, Ibex Investors, and Key 1 Capital.