Archive for the ‘storage’ tag.
PuneTech Event: Storage Technology Trends talk by Ken Boyd, IBM: 28 July
Ken Boyd, a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, who has been building high end storage products at IBM for over 25 years, is visiting Pune and will talk about his thoughts on the trends in storage technology. On Saturday July 28, 5pm, at MCCIA, SB Road, Ken will present some of the technology trends that are [...]
Pune-based Druva get $12M in Series B from Nexus/Sequoia – This time its official
Pune-based Druva software, which makes enterprise backup software, has just cosed a $12 million round of funding from Nexus Venture Partners and existing investory Sequoia. In April 2010, they had raised $5 million from Sequoia and the Indian Angel Investors. This funding is going to be used by Druva to make a strong push into [...]
News of Druva’s funding was inaccurate and premature
On Friday, based on an Economic Times report, we reported that Pune-based enterprise backup software provider Druva has received $10 million in funding from Nexus VP. Unfortunately this news appears to be inaccurate. Here is a comment from Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva: Thanks Navin, but this news is not very accurate. This was unethically [...]
Backup Software Provider Druva.com get $10 million funding from Nexus
Update: It appears that the report in ET, on which this article is based, was inaccurate. Please see this update. Pune-based startup Druva, which sells enterprise backup software, has just closed a second round of funding worth $10 million from Nexus Venture Partners, reports Economic Times. In April 2010, Druva had raised $5 million from [...]
Solid State Storage company STEC acquires Pune’s KQ Infotech
STEC Inc., a leader1 in solid state storage devices for the enterprise market, announced yesterday that it has a acquired KQ Infotech, a Pune based software services company. Regular readers of PuneTech will remember KQ Infotech as the company that runs the Mentor India internship program for students interested in systems programming, and also as [...]
CORRECTION: Ken Boyd’s talk on Trends in Storage Systems is on Nov 16
We had mistakenly reported this as being on Nov 13. Other details are here.
The Explosion of Data & Trends in Storage Systems – by Ken Boyd IBM Distinguished Engineer – Nov 16
Update: This talk is on Nov 16, (not Nov 13 as we misreported earlier). Sorry about inconvenience caused. Also, the talk is from 5pm to 7pm. Mail indialab@in.ibm.com to register. Abstract of the talk:An "explosion" of data, including "unstructured" data is having a profound effect on society, technology, and the storage industry. This increase in [...]
Pune’s KQInfoTech announces beta availability of ZFS file-system for Linux
About an year ago, we had reported that Pune based KQInfoTech is working on porting Sun’s ZFS file system to linux. They have now announced that a “Technology Preview” of the port is now complete, and the ported ZFS for Linux is now available in beta. They are looking for interested folks to try out [...]
“World-class software products can come out of India” – Interview with CEO of Druva
We now have in our midst a startup success story that will hopefully inspire a 100 new software product startups in Pune. PuneTech and the Pune Open Coffee Club both started about 2 years ago, and the steadily increasing memberships and vitality of these communities points to a very strong startup community in Pune. However, [...]
Pune’s KQInfoTech is porting Sun’s ZFS File-System to Linux
Pune-based KQInfoTech is working on porting Sun‘s ZFS file-system to the Linux Platform. ZFS is arguably one of the best file-systems available today, and Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems for servers by new startups. So, having ZFS available on Linux would be great. And, With many years of experience in [...]