Storware’s CEO, Paweł Mączka, explains how a small Polish backup specialist built a global footprint by betting early on open‑source virtualisation, and why the Broadcom/VMware saga has pushed the company into the spotlight. When Paweł Mączka founded Storware in 2013, he and two colleagues were told they didn’t stand a …
Read More »Caeves: a new take on deep storage and data readiness
Caeves is a young company, but its founders are anything but new to the world of enterprise storage. They have a history that stretches back more than two decades, through earlier ventures such as Talon Storage, later acquired by NetApp. The Caeves team has spent years working on distributed storage, …
Read More »Feature: HANNspree paper‑like panels to redefine sustainable displays
Martin Kent, Territory Manager at HANNspree, argues that paper‑like panels are set to shift the display market away from its long‑standing focus on brightness and resolution. With energy use and screen fatigue becoming harder to ignore, new panel technologies promising up to 80% lower power consumption signal a meaningful step …
Read More »Ewigbyte: Glass-based storage and the future of cold data
For years, the storage industry has relied on familiar assumptions with falling prices, rising density, and steady gains under Moore’s Law. But Dr Steffen Klewitz, Founder and CEO of Ewigbyte, has warned that these foundations are eroding, and urged the channel to prepare for a fundamental shift in how data …
Read More »Several9s: Building database sovereignty in a fragmented cloud era
When Vinay Joosery cofounded Several9s in 2011, the cloud market was already tilting heavily toward the United States – at least that was the way European enterprises perceived it. The Sweden-headquartered company, which operates remotely across Europe, set out to automate and simplify database operations, but the team was also …
Read More »Plakar: The open‑source bet aiming to redefine data resilience
Backing up has always been seen as a necessary but unloved operational chore, but Plakar is positioning itself as a fundamental rethink of how organisations protect, move and recover data. The project, which began as a personal experiment in content-defined deduplication, has evolved into a fully-fledged open‑source platform now backed …
Read More »9LivesData and the legacy of Hydra
When Cesary Dubnicki spoke to us recently, he did not begin with a product pitch. Instead, he told stories about missed opportunities with Amazon and Google, about Princeton research in the 1990s, and about the long arc of storage technology. He is less about selling and more about explaining how …
Read More »HyperBunker and the future of offline resilience
“In today’s world, one of the most important things is data, especially critical data, and we must preserve it at any cost,” said CEO of HyperBunker, Bostjan Kirm. The company’s story begins not in cybersecurity, but in data recovery. Imran Nino Eškić, HyperBunker’s CTO and founder of the product, has …
Read More »Enakta Labs: Enterprise storage on DAOS foundations
In a sector dominated by legacy systems and incremental improvements, Enakta Labs is a small but ambitious player intent on reshaping how high-performance storage is deployed and managed. Founded in 2023 by Denis Nuja and Denis Barakhtanov, the company sits at the point where open‑source development meets enterprise usability, with …
Read More »Feature: Phantom suppliers in digital procurement
Giles Hamlin, Global Head of GRC Services at LRQA, explains why identity is the new battleground. Digital procurement has become the engine room of modern business. Where supplier selection and due diligence once relied on paper trails, phone calls and in-person verification, organisations are now starting to use automated platforms, …
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