Datos IO RecoverX 2.5 Brilliant

Datos IO is growing at a rapid pace. We visited the company in December 2016 with The IT Press Tour and we understood that something is happening there.

As of today, the company has doubled its installed base in just 6 months with 50% coming from Fortune500, confirming the need in such customers profiles. But globally it's a challenge for everyone.

The ISV also recruited a new VP of sales, Rick Gouveia, with background in data protection.

The company has taken a new approach to solve a common problem - data protection - for new distributed applications.
First they started to address NoSQL databases then file systems and continue with more classic applications. As Veritas Software was for the data center, the reference in data management, Veeam Software for the virtualization environment protection, clearly Datos IO is the new gem for cloud-based applications. It represents a modern protection for applications. The interest in the company is not reserved to a few people from a special club but to a range of individuals. NetApp and Cisco has made some special investments a few months ago and Suresh Vasudevan, last CEO of Nimble Storage, before the HPE acquisition, joined the board of directors. Cloud service providers are close partners especially AWS, GCP and Oracle Cloud but also companies like Cloudera, Cloudian or Igneous.

The firm has developed CODR (Consistent Orchestrated Distributed Recovery) as a scale-out distributed data management architecture to support modern applications in similar philosophies. And it confirms that RecoverX 2.5 is one of the most advanced data protection platform for applications using database engines like MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Cloudera or big data file system such HDFS.

This release introduces sub-table recovery, incremental and streaming recovery, local backup of geo-distributed applications with maximum data consistency and various security extensions with TLS/SSL encryption, x509 certificates, LDAP and Kerberos, key elements critical for enterprise adoption.

Next visit in a few days with the 25th edition of The IT Press Tour, will even better as the company has a real market adoption and continues to innovate fast. Superb.

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No more CTO for Quantum

Quantum (NYSE:QTM) doesn't have a CTO anymore. Bassam Tabbara, CTO of the company for the last three years, put an end date on September 2017, few times before the departure of CEO Jon Gacek.

He started strategic projects for Quantum such Castle and Rook. Based on Ceph and operating on commodity hardware, Rook is a multi-protocol SDS - file, block and object - for cloud native environments running as hyper scale or hyper converged clusters. Rook, accessible on GitHub, is also an open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.

He came from Symform a company he co-founded in 2007 with Praerit Garg then acquired in 2014 by Quantum. This later has shut down the service in 2016. Symform was a decentralized P2P storage product playing against AetherStore, Aerofs, Blockade, Cloudplan, Kerstor, Ubistorage, Ugloo, Sia.tech, Space Monkey, Storj, Symform, Transporter, Tudzu or Wuala. Like many players Symform moved from generic use cases to a backup one.

Before that, he was at Microsoft as partner architect for more than 12 years.

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Datos IO recruits its new Sales VP

Datos IO, leader of the new generation of data protection approach, is expanding its sales effort with the recent recruitment of Rick Gouveia as VP of Sales. Rick has a strong data protection background, he came from Druva where he was VP of sales for the west region and stayed there more than 3 years. Before he spent 3 months at ElasticBox and previously a long tenure at Data Domain then EMC. He also appeared at Dell, Cisco and SGI at various product and sales positions.

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IT Press Tour #25 in California with a huge program

The IT Press Tour (www.itpresstour.com), the leading press event for IT press, just announced an amazing list of participating companies for the 25th edition early December in California.

A few surprises as well during this edition but I can't reveal any of these.

Topics will be around Software-Defined Infrastructure with of course Big Data, Storage, Networking, Data Management and Containers with a flavor of open source and edge computing.

Here is the list:

1. AetherWorks, inventor of AetherStore and more recently FogCoin and ActiveAether,
2. Datos IO, new comer in data protection for distributed data,
3. DriveScale, pioneer in composable infrastructure for demanding applications,
4. Hedvig, leader in multi-protocol SDS,
5. Igneous, recent player in secondary storage,
6. iXsystems, reference in open source storage,
7. Minio, the promising fast growing object storage platform,
8. Panasas, leader in high performance file system,
9. Quantum, top vendor for secondary storage solutions,
10. Qumulo, key actor in new scale-out NAS generation,
11. Rubrik, the fast growing data protection platform,
12. Spanning, major player in Cloud-to-Cloud and SaaS data protection,
13. Sysdig, a model for others in Container monitoring,
14. and Vexata, young flash storage vendor dedicated to speed.

This edition will be again huge with a dense program and top innovators. I invite you to follow us with @ITPressTour, #ITPT, various publications and reporters Twitter handles.

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