Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems is set to buy analytics company Pentaho at a price rumored to be between $500 million and $600 million (closer to $500 million, from what I’ve heard). It’s… Read more »
Flash storage vendor SolidFire has raised $82 million as it rides the wave of excitement about storage performance over the past few years. The Boulder, Colorado–based company is one of a… Read more »
Backblaze has released its latest open source storage system design, which jams 180 terabytes into a single array at just 5 cents per gigabyte assembled. Read more »
Facebook doesn’t have a shortage of IT gear or smart engineers, but it does have limits on power and how many hours those engineers have in a day. On Thursday, the… Read more »
Troubled flash storage vendor Violin Memory (s vmem) has a new president and CEO, just months after a lackluster IPO and an ensuing scandal that resulted in the termination of its… Read more »
Violin Memory Chief Operating Officer Dixon Doll, Jr., resigned just weeks after the resignation of CTO Jonathan Goldrick and termination of CEO Don Basile. The company hopes new leadership can get… Read more »
HGST is now selling helium-filled hard drives that can hold more capacity (and more disks) while using less energy than traditional hard drives. One early use of the tech is CERN,… Read more »
Greylock Partners’ Jerry Chen has seen enough in his recent 9 years building the cloud computing business at VMware to know how to spot an opportunity. Here’s where he thinks entrepreneurs… Read more »
EqualLogic and now DataGravity Co-founder Paula Long is very smart about storage technology. Right now, she’s looking at things like flash and cloud storage with a skeptical eye. They’re valuable and… Read more »
Shares of Violin Memory stock closed their first day of public availabiity at $7.02, down 22 percent from the morning’s initial asking price of $9 per share. However, CEO Don Basile… Read more »