Last week, Spanning, a Google Apps backup service, announced a $6 million investment from an unnamed strategic investor. Today, Spanning and Mozy, a storage provider owned by EMC, announced a partnership to market and sell each other’s offerings. Oh, so many questions about this very conveniently timed relationship. We do know that Google is not […]
Posted on March 30th, 2013 by admin
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Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty has a new job as the CEO at Nirvanix, the Khosla Ventures backed enterprise storage company that she expects to further compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and extend into the business analytics market. Chrapaty initially joined Nirvanix last November as chairwoman of the board when Khosla became lead investor in the […]
Posted on March 26th, 2013 by admin
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Basho is open-soucing Riak CS, its storage software that integrates with Amazon Web Services. Riak CS will be available under an Apache 2 license. The move is a smart one for Basho, which has built a reputation for Riak, its distributed high performance database. Riak CS runs on top of Riak and applies the same […]
Posted on March 20th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is tripling the amount of storage that can be provisioned for each Relational Database Service (RDS) database instance. As posted on its blog, AWS is also tripling the number of IOPS: You can now create DB instances (MySQL or Oracle) with up to 3 TB of storage (the previous limit was 1 TB) and […]
Posted on March 15th, 2013 by admin
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Boxbee, a startup that’s looking to make urban storage (not of the digital variety) less of a pain in the ass, just won the best new startup award at the Launch conference in San Francisco. The winner was chosen by a jury from the 50-plus startups that demonstrated on-stage at Launch over the past three […]
Posted on March 7th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services has added a new storage instance for data intensive applications. The new instances are designed for applications that require high storage depth and I/O performance. According to the AWS blog, the “High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances includes 120 GiB of RAM, 16 virtual cores (providing 35 ECU of compute performance), […]
Posted on December 21st, 2012 by admin
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Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. “In the Studio” approaches the end of 2012 by welcoming the type of entrepreneur that doesn’t end up in the tech blogs very often, if ever, […]
Posted on December 14th, 2012 by admin
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Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers.The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3 compatibility, gives a potent boost to the fast growing distributed storage service. Replication with Riak CS means that a customer can spread their stored data across multiple data centers around the globe and […]
Posted on November 30th, 2012 by admin
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Crossbar has raised $20.5 million from undisclosed investors for its memory storage technology that could be a possible successor to flash. According to a Form D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Crossbar has an intent to raise $21 million. Crossbar has previous investments from Correlation Ventures, with additional funding from Artiman Ventures, Kleiner […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Seattle-based enterprise data storage startup Qumulo, which was only founded back in March and has been in a quasi-stealthy state ever since, has raised its voice to announce a $24.5 million Series A financing round today, led by Highland Capital Partners. Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners are also participating in the round — Valhalla having previously contributed seed […]
Posted on November 21st, 2012 by admin
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