tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170181892024-03-14T15:53:52.080+01:00Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and beyond...Started during the CDP wave, this Blog extend his initial coverage with Data Reduction, VTL, Remote Backup, SaaS and Cloud Backup or even individual solutions. Of course, the contenu written in this blog reflects only my personal opinions, views and visions...Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.comBlogger1086125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-39113695554943912752024-02-28T19:10:00.002+01:002024-03-03T20:00:42.764+01:0054th edition of The IT Press Tour in Colorado and California very soon nowIn a few days, The IT Press Tour will operate its 54th edition, this on will take place in Colorado and California with an amazing program in perspective. This tour will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage with 10 leaders and innovative US companies:Arcitecta, a pioneer in data management,BMC Software, a reference in IT operations,Cohesity, Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-52899351699465815932024-01-02T14:05:00.067+01:002024-01-18T11:26:02.493+01:00Recap of the 52nd edition of The IT Press TourInitially posted on StorageNewsletter 15/12/2023 The 52nd edition of The IT Press Tour happened recently in Madrid, Spain and it was an opportunity to meet European and American companies, with some famous names already met but also newcomers so globally a good mix of people bringing innovations and new ways to solve and address new IT and storage challenges. During this Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-82098086651617378872023-12-28T10:20:00.162+01:002023-12-30T12:27:51.798+01:00Inspeere promotes a new P2P backup approachInspeere, a french data management startup, joined the recent IT Press Tour, organized in Madrid, Spain, and spent time to explain its data protection mission.Founded in 2019 in Poitiers, France, with a recent seed round of €600k, the team has designed a P2P backup solution that leverages research work made by its CTO, Olivier Dalle, during his tenure at CNRS at University of Nice Côte d'Azur.ThePhilippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-25078422501920645932023-12-21T11:53:00.000+01:002024-01-11T10:28:05.674+01:00DataCore develops new iterations for SwarmDataCore, a leader in storage management during the last 2 decades, shared its roadmap for Swarm 16, its object storage software coming from the Caringo acquisition effective since early 2021.The main direction is the iteration with small configurations, less than 100TB, and single containerization instance deployment, managed by Kubernetes, aligned with ROBO and edge needs. It means that Swarm Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-29915312195569841242023-12-19T15:53:00.125+01:002024-01-12T22:09:54.459+01:00Disk Archive promotes MAIDDisk Archive, a specialist of data archiving, joined the recent European IT Press Tour organized in Madrid, Spain. The company, founded in 2008 in the UK, designed a comprehensive long term data retention solution targeting media and entertainment.It is a HDD based product associated with a dedicated data and disk management software layer. The product ALTO stands for Alternative LTO and belongs Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-31069503755024151722023-12-14T10:49:00.003+01:002023-12-29T15:51:59.048+01:00New CMO for HYCUHYCU, a leading data protection player for SaaS world, just recruited its new marketing vip with the arrival of Angela Heindl-Schober as SVP global marketing. Interestingly, the newcomer doesn't take the CMO title, does it mean the company management wishes some efficiency evidence before giving this title to someone. We'll see as several executives didn't survive a long time at HYCU during the Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-90485360457657299932023-12-12T09:23:00.099+01:002024-01-09T17:22:42.234+01:00XenData, new player in object storageXenData, an established player in secondary storage with an active archive solution, joined The IT Press Tour in Madrid, Spain, organized last week. It was the opportunity to meet Philip Storey, CEO, and Mark Broadbent, CTO. The company, founded in 2001, is self-funded and also profitable.The idea was to build an archive system coupling tape with the simplicity of disk interaction. The result is Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-82629723442001297172023-12-07T14:52:00.052+01:002023-12-26T15:05:17.749+01:00New Coldago Map for Object StorageColdago Research, an independent market research and analysis firm, just published a few days ago its 5th edition of its Map for Object Storage. This 2023 edition selected 13 companies and reduced the number studied for the previous years. It also elected 9 leaders: Cloudian, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Pure Storage and Quantum.I wish to insist on the fact that "It’s Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-18133066081122296182023-12-05T11:25:00.081+01:002024-01-15T11:26:01.236+01:00CloudFabrix announced its Data Fabric for ObservabilityCloudFabrix, a reference in AIOps, took advantage of its presence at Cisco Live Australia to unveil the "Data Fabric for Observability" for the Cisco Observability Platform. The firm is well known for its Robotic Automation Fabric and has clearly chosen to partner for Cisco and complement AppDynamics and ThousandEyes products, 2 companies we met during The IT Press Tour in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-12242001990981510552023-12-04T13:42:00.036+01:002023-12-16T12:24:22.370+01:00Inspeere just raised €600k to sustain its developmentInspeere, young french company launched in 2019, announced a seed round of €600k from business angels and other entities. It will help the firm to expand the team and sign new positions with partners. The company develops a backup infrastructure based on P2P topology. Each backup server belongs to a dispersed network and runs OpenZFS. Each source node snaps, compresses, splits, encodes and Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-44497961772350807842023-11-29T10:08:00.000+01:002023-12-27T10:08:35.489+01:00Storadera offers geo replication for bucketsStoradera, a young emerging cloud storage provider based in Estonia, continues to iterate on its S3 based service this time with geo replication at the bucket level. As the company operates 2 data centers - Tallinn and Amsterdam - it is now super easy to add geo redundancy in addition to local protection. The service is free even the trafic, only the extra capacity is charged at the normal fee.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-68230446570424243552023-11-28T08:18:00.002+01:002023-11-28T08:35:18.624+01:00The IT Press Tour will rock again soon in Madrid for its 52nd editionJust a few more days and The IT Press Tour will land in Madrid, Spain, for its 52nd edition scheduled December 5 & 6. This tour will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage with a mix of 6 innovative European and US companies:DataCore, global leader in SDS,Disk Archive, established secondary storage player,Inspeere, an innovative P2P backup Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-41646356972516124122023-11-17T11:49:00.071+01:002024-01-15T13:47:50.656+01:00HYCU confirms the adoption of its R-Cloud DPaaSHYCU, one of the fastest growing modern data protection player, just announced a major milestone with its 50th integration to its marketplace. The variety and number of SaaS illustrate by themselves the complexity of the problem. How is it possible to address the mandatory need to protect data created by users of SaaS applications? Beyond the scandal that each SaaS vendor should offer a mechanismPhilippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-2271808106914300462023-10-31T10:49:00.023+01:002024-01-15T11:29:48.086+01:00HYCU partners with BackblazeHYCU, a fast growing backup provider for SaaS applications, adds Backblaze as a cloud service partner to protect on-premises and hybrid applications environments. HYCU R-Cloud will support Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, a S3 compatible service, for a very aggressive pricing. The strategy for HYCU is clear with the rapid addition of storage back-ends, global, national and regional ones, plus the Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-60385044720450944192023-09-19T15:56:00.003+02:002023-12-29T16:37:49.979+01:00Fujifilm continues on data archivingFujifilm Recording Media, the leading worldwide tape vendor and manufacturer and a business unit from Fujifilm, came back to the data archiving landscape with Kangaroo.The organization has participated to this domain a few years ago with their Object Archive solution based on external object storage software. It was a point product that needed to be connected to other tape libraries. They also Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-50988584117757021702023-09-14T15:20:00.026+02:002023-12-27T11:42:28.918+01:00CTera introduces VaultCTera Networks, a worldwide leader in distributed file storage, unveils Vault, a WORM security extension to its offering. CTera cloud folders can now be configured to be WORMed with various retention periods. This approach is compliant with various regulations and also allows a soft air gap to prevent any malicious changes.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-37036971713763483052023-08-30T09:45:00.003+02:002023-12-27T09:53:29.123+01:00Storadera opens a new regionStoradera, a young cloud service provider from Estonia I invited in Paris for the 45th edition of The IT Press Tour in September, unveils the opening of a new region of service based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Users can now select the residence of their buckets in addition to Tallinn, Estonia. The team plans to open also a German region and thus will create a 3 ways redundancy.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-44452182088710315062023-07-04T09:29:00.002+02:002023-07-25T09:34:31.591+02:00Yuzuy to make Qumulo clusters more robustYuzuy is a Qumulo partner from Hamburg, Germany playing in the data protection landscape. The team recently participated to The IT Press Tour in Berlin end of June.
The idea is to complement Qumulo’s NAS clusters in the data protection space especially in continuous replication and backup. Considering data protection, beyond internal protection with an advanced erasure coding service layer, Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-37763904568557563472023-06-29T10:02:00.001+02:002023-07-23T19:07:18.738+02:00Insurgo, for a better tape lifecycle approachI met Insurgo at the Storage Technology Showcase conference in March in Tucson, AZ, and I realized that that team had a very needed service most of time ignored by users themselves and potentially vendors. They address the lifecycle of tape and as you can imagine it represents a huge business opportunity for decades. So I decided to invite to the recent IT Press Tour in Berlin end of June.So Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-90938965056765343612023-06-23T09:02:00.046+02:002023-06-23T09:02:00.139+02:0051st edition of The IT Press Tour in Berlin, GermanyThe IT Press Tour is approaching Berlin, Germany, for its 51st edition scheduled June 27 & 28. This tour will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, data management and storage with 6 innovative European companies:Croit, key provider of solutions for Ceph and DAOS,Cuno, belongs to PetaGene and developer of cunoFS, Insurgo, leader in tape lifecycle management,SimplyBlock, promoter of an Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-24506105855181417922023-06-22T13:50:00.100+02:002024-01-22T01:38:29.573+01:00Recap of the 50th edition of The IT Press TourInitially posted on StorageNewsletter 20/6/2023
The 50th edition of The IT Press Tour happened recently in Colorado and California and it was the opportunity to meet and visit a few innovators that lead some market segments or shake some established positions with their new approach playing in cloud, IT infrastructure, data management, storage: Arcitecta, DDN, MinIO, Nyriad, Phison Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-40694955051251558482023-06-21T12:06:00.040+02:002023-12-18T12:26:34.935+01:00StrongLink has disppearedFormerly known as StrongBox Data Solutions, the company renamed itself StrongLink, named of its product, a few months ago following some business difficulties. The investment firm, who has invested in the company, took over the destiny of the StrongLink and ceased its operations and invited users to contact partners. Here is the official letter sent to their customers base. It means a real good Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-81526494686331309282023-06-20T11:03:00.076+02:002023-07-10T11:28:52.799+02:00Atempo introduces Miria 4.1Atempo, a leading European data management company, launched its Miria 4.1 focused on sustainability. Real hype on the market, having it doesn't change anything, but don't cover it could impact the adoption. This release targets Media & Entertainment and offers a few key features:1. Auto-tagging for video content with the creation of related metadata. It boosts the workflow and allows a Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-86263216341385702742023-06-15T23:54:00.038+02:002023-06-20T05:04:32.758+02:00Versity unveils its S3 gatewayVersity, a leader in mass storage, joined the recent IT Press Tour in California a few days ago, and its CEO, Bruce Gilpin, reserved a surprise to the team with the announcement of their S3 gateway.It is not new for Versity as they used, like a few others such as Qumulo in the past, the MinIO S3 gateway. But MinIO informed their partners and users that this solution flavor will be deprecated Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17018189.post-69562921960180778122023-06-13T23:29:00.092+02:002024-01-09T17:24:11.591+01:00Spectra Logic has made a big changeSpectra Logic, the reference in secondary storage, has shaken its organization and started a market effort around solution marketing to promote solutions instead of corporate and independent product ones. In Spectra's terms, a solution groups software + hardware + services. It is a big change for the company and some employees had to leave even after a few decades of collaboration. We talked Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0