Yesterday Commvault, a data protection / data management company, publicly announced that they have acquired software-defined-storage startup Hedvig for $225M. This is a great exit… Read More »Commvault Acquires Hedvig For $225M, What Should We Expect?
I had the pleasure to attend the Analyst sessions at CyberArk Impact on 23rd May 2019 in Amsterdam, with my partner in crime Arjan Timmerman. The sessions consisted of an intro an discussion with Udi Mokady, CEO & Co-Founder of CyberArk, a session on container security by Lavi Lazarovitz, Group Research Manager at CyberArk Labs,… Read More »CyberArk Impact 2019 – Takeaways From The Analyst Session With CEO & Co-Founder Udi Mokady
Cyber-Security is a very serious matter that has grown over the years and has reached public awareness. It has transformed from a niche topic that was of concern only to large organizations and IT / Information Security Risk stakeholders into a universal matter that impacts our daily lives. The ubiquity of technology in our lives… Read More »TECHunplugged Will Be At CyberArk Impact Conference in Amsterdam
Nutanix announced this week at their .NEXT conference the launch of Nutanix Mine, a secondary storage platform initially aimed at serving data protection requirements such as backup and archiving. So there’s still some way to go until we get to actually mine any data, but more on this later. The announcement was initially made jointly… Read More »Nutanix Releases Secondary Storage Solution, Wants Orgs To Mine Their Data
The TECHunplugged team was at the Global Expo AI & Big Data conference in London on 25-26 April 2019. We had the pleasure to be present there in cooperation with NGD Systems and NVMestorage.com. TECHunplugged has been enthusiastic about the fundamental transformation brought forth by computational storage, a new paradigm in data processing. NGD Systems… Read More »TECHunplugged helps promote Computational Storage in collaboration with NGD Systems
On 6th March 2019, NGD Systems, Inc. announced the general availability of their Newport computational storage platform. While the Newport platform looks like a traditional NVMe drive, there is much more to it. The Newport drive combines flash memory modules combined with an SSD Controller ASIC developed on a 14nm process technology (NGD Systems claims… Read More »NGD Systems Delivers First 16 TB NVMe Drive With In-Situ Processing Capabilities
Dear readers, this is Max Mortillaro reporting back from Chicago. I have been invited as an industry influencer to the Dell Technologies 2018 Analyst Summit in Chicago, an experiment from the Dell Tech Influencer Relations team. Thanks to them for this and hope my contributions / feedback will be of value to them. But moving… Read More »Takeaways from Dell Technologies Analyst Summit 2018
TECHunplugged is very excited about the rise of Computational Storage and the possibilities it opens to enable next-gen workloads. We’ve covered this not only in blog posts, but also in our very first Industry Insights research paper (free & available for download here). Today, the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) announced the creation of a… Read More »SNIA Announces New Technical Work Group Focusing on Computational Storage
Druva, a cloud-based data protection company, announced the availability of an Amazon / Druva co-engineered AWS Snowball Edge appliance. Snowball Edge appliances make sense for customers who need to ship very large amounts of data to the cloud; usually ingress (from an AWS perspective) traffic is not charged, but the challenge is mainly with the… Read More »Druva & Amazon Web Services Deliver Co-Engineered Snowball Edge Appliance
It’s an exciting time to be alive if you’re into data management: there are many vendors who claim to solve the issue of data management. Unfortunately, it turns out that data management is quite a broad topic, and without proper context & scope, all discussions about data management can only turn out into wishful thinking.… Read More »Blogroll – Komprise: Data Management Made Easy by Max Mortillaro