Storage

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  Calamu Exits Stealth With ‘Ransomware-Immune’ Storage Platform And An Eye On The Channel

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We’re heading towards an MSP play. There will be service revenue opportunities. Calamu doesn’t have its own cloud, so the channel will set configuration,’ says Paul Lewis, Calamu co-founder and CEO.

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  Western Digital, Micron Eyeing Kioxia Acquisition: WSJ

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  The possibility that Micron or Western Digital might acquire flash memory and SSD manufacturer Kioxia for perhaps $30 billion comes at a time when the United States is looking at ways to lower its reliance on foreign production of semiconductors and other critical components.

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  StorMagic Acquires SoleraTec For Edge Data Protection, Archiving

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘SoleraTec brought to us this ability to tier data between different classes of storage. The differentiator here is that we can move these bit objects of video from disk to tape to optical to the cloud, whatever the customer wants. The point is, get it off the expensive disk, because you don’t need it there all the time, and move it to lower-cost tiers, but always keep it active and available for searching,’ says Bruce Kornfeld, StorMagic’s chief marketing officer and chief product officer.

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  Multi-Cloud Data Protection Vendor HYCU Closes $87.5M Funding Round

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘As the cloud and multi-cloud environments take root, the channel is evolving. There’s interest in supporting customers with storage for their journey to the cloud. We want to make sure the channel is a key part of our strategy and make sure it’s a primary driver of our strategy,’ says HYCU CEO Simon Taylor.

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending March 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  Infrascale Intros New SSD-based DR Appliances

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Disaster recovery need the performance so customers can recover and quickly run at scale. We have a lot of customers in the engineering and aerospace industries who are running CAD (computer-aided design) all day. If they have a system go down, they need it up and running right away,’ says Parker Merrill, director of sales engineering at cybersecurity solution provider Simpatico Systems.

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  Dell Partners Get 20 Points Upfront For PowerStore, PowerScale

  by Mark Haranas

  ‘It allows us to be more competitive if we’re in there against Pure Storage or HPE or NetApp, it makes the deal more competitive from the get-go without having to go back and forward for additional approvals,’ says Josh Lee, director of sales at VirtuIT Systems.

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  NetApp To Discontinue HCI Technology, Shift Focus To Project Astra For Managing Kubernetes

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘The market is adopting Kubernetes. Hyperconverged infrastructure was a necessary form factor to help in adopting the cloud. But providing a box for servers to do that is not necessary,’ says Eric Han, NetApp’s vice president of product management for public cloud services.

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  Infinidat: Operational Efficiency Is Key To Scaling Storage Infrastructure

  by Jennifer Zarate

  ‘When we started this 10 years ago, the journey was a couple hundred terabytes to a petabyte. Now we’re seeing customers do hundreds of petabytes on the floor and that will soon be exabytes, so that growth is off the charts and our partners are delivering that,’ Infinidat’s Brett Cooper tells CRNtv.

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  NetApp CEO Kurian: All-Flash Storage, Hybrid Cloud Continue To Be Business Drivers

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘As we have said many times, cloud is additive to our business, what we do in the cloud helps expand our on-premises business, and our enterprise-hardened software and experience provide a solid foundation for our work in the cloud,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.

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  Pure Storage: Strong Fiscal Year Finish Despite Pandemic’s Ups And Downs

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘I believe that in this fiscal year our customers will accelerate their investment in digital transformation with renewed confidence of economic recovery. They will be increasingly confident in their ability to deploy new vendors, new systems and software, into new use cases, and Pure will be high on their list,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo.

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  Arcserve, StorageCraft To Merge, Create Data Protection Powerhouse

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We’ll always be 100-percent channel-focused moving forward. We’re both diametrically opposed to any channel conflict. You won’t see us moving into a direct sales motion. We think there are opportunities for us to really double-down with the channel and invest more in sales and marketing where both of us wouldn’t have had the ability to do that stand-alone,’ says Arcserve CEO Tom Signorello.

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  Storage-as-a-Service Specialist Zadara Acquires Compute Developer NeoKarm

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Most of our customers are MSPs who use our storage internally to offer to clients who pay for usage. It’s software-defined storage. No Capex. They like not needing Capex and like our flexibility. And they ask us why we don’t also provide Compute as a Service,” says Zadara CEO Nelson Nahum.

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  Veeam Adds Veeam Backup For Google Cloud Platform

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘It takes advantage of all the Google capabilities. It does all the cost forecasting. It takes advantage of Google security controls. And it’s built for hybrid environments. Veeam recognizes that customers still have on-premises data,’ says Veeam CTO Danny Allan.

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  DataCore Acquires Caringo In Major Software-defined Storage Play

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘As customers moved towards object storage, we decided an acquisition would be the fastest way to get it. Caringo had the most advanced technology, but was lacking the financial backing and the support of a strong channel. There are other object storage companies, but they don’t have the maturity the Caringo Swarm offers,’ says Gerardo Dada, DataCore’s chief marketing officer.