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Cirrus Data Solutions Inc. (CDS), a leader in SAN data migration and data management technology, and Infinidat Ltd, a provider of enterprise storage solutions, announced a strategic technology alliance. The partnership provides customers with a complete storage solution and data migration and management platform. By combining the Cirrus patented CDS Data Migration Server (DMS) Version 4 with Infinidat’s patented storage architecture, the InfiniBox, customers can rapidly and securely migrate their data to the InfiniBox with zero downtime until final cutover.

There have been regular announcements of Infinidat’s progress – in March 2017, November 2016, August 2016, May 2016, February 2016, November 2015 and July 2015 – all claiming double-digit and sometimes triple-digit year-over-year growth. The starting revenues must have been small, in the low millions perhaps, but must now be heading towards $100m a quarter, with annual revenues probably having exceeded $250m and with $500m in sight. Infinidat is becoming a storage array force to be reckoned with. How long will it be before other high-end array providers Dell, HDS and HPE and, maybe, NetApp cast covetous eyes over Yanai’s latest storage project?

Infinidat has sold two InifiniBox arrays to UK-based hybrid cloud service provider Pulsant. Pulsant offers a cloud storage service, and the InfiniBox arrays will be used for this as well as for its Enterprise Cloud platform, a VMware-based multi-tenant infrastructure offering housing several hundred customers.

Scotland-based cloud and managed services provider Brightsolid has dumped EMC and NetApp arrays for more than 1PB of Infinidat triple controller dense storage, and said doing so has helped its customer Aberdeen council save £250,000 on storage costs. CEO Richard Higgs said the move from existing EMC and NetApp arrays was prompted by a big council tender process.

Data Economy is proud to run for the first time ‘The EMEA 50’ as part of our first magazine issue exclusively launched at Datacloud Europe in Monaco. “The EMEA 50” showcases the 50 people who are leading data centre, cloud an data through charting new innovations or technological breakthroughs, sheer business acumen, or exceptional entrepreneurial skillsets. Here’s the 50 people leading the industry in EMEA today, including INFINIDAT CEO and Founder, Moshe Yanai.

Based on our methodologies, we establish a list of 8 storage companies: Actifio, Datto, DDN Storage, Dropbox, Infinidat, Kaminario, Rubrik and Veritas. From CB Insights list, we add three new companies – DDN Storage, Kaminario and Veritas – for a total of 203. It means that only 4% are storage related, a really small percentage and a bit surprising as storage is a hot topic and again a huge market. Two (25%) companies have Israel roots and six are Americans (75%) but none of them come from Europe and AsiaPac.

StorageMojo has observed, many times, that great marketing of a mediocre product beats mediocre marketing of a great product all the time. Thus it is always of interest when someone comes up with an innovative marketing wrinkle. That’s what Infinidat has done with their Faster than all flash challenge. Their claim is that their system will outperform any all flash array (generally available prior to 1-1-2017) or they donate $10,000 to the charity of your choice.

Enterprises that want to stay ahead of the curve now require data storage that delivers high performance, scalability and always-on availability in order to keep up with increasing data-movement speed demands. Not only that, in the current hyper-connected, data-driven world, organizations must overcome the challenges associated with real-time access to data to support business-critical workloads – all while maintaining the agility required to adjust to changing business directives. In this eWEEK slides,using industry information from INFINIDAT CTO, Brian Carmody, we present nine design principles that govern the next generation of storage.

The UK’s top data leaders were honoured at the second annual Data 50 Awards on Thursday evening. The Data 50 Awards, organised by Information Age, is the UK’s premier initiative for celebrating data leadership and excellence. The list is updated annually to recognise the top individuals and companies creating business value and innovation from data. INFINIDAT CEO, Moshe Yanai, was recognized as a global leader.

Solution Architect, Bryan Stover, was interviewed on the latest Cut the Noise Podcast to take on the topic of all-flash arrays in the data center. The podcast is produced by INFINIDAT partner, Roundtower, for broadcast to the IT community. In it, Bryan discusses where Flash fits in the datacenter, including where it works best and where doesn’t fit. He also discusses what the hype around flash means for the IT administrator.