Classic exercise I do every year, here is once again my choice for the key facts related to the data storage industry in 2024. I cover Funding aspects, IPOs, M&As, new Unicorns and Trends. All these elements are also key to follow for the coming year as they announce some real changes. A very interesting and promising year in perspective. And I should say it starts well with the Infinidat acquisition by Lenovo. Enjoy.

Coldago Research has launched and released a brand new Map about Modern Data Protection aka MDP as we live in a fast changing world with pressure and challenges in all domains. This study analyzed 16 companies: Acronis, Arcserve, Atempo, Bacula, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell, Druva, HYCU, IBM, Kaseya, N-able, OpenText, Rubrik, Salesforce and Veeam and we elect 4 leaders: Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik and Veeam. I really hope this episode will meet your expectations. Enjoy.

New Map for Coldago Research with the new annual Map for Unstructured Data Management aka UDM. The 2024 report analyzes 17 companies: Arcitecta, Atempo, Congruity360, Data Dynamics, Datadobi, Dell, Hammerspace, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, Huawei, IBM, iRODS, Komprise, NetApp, Spectra Logic, Starfish and Veritas and we elect 4 leaders: Arcitecta, Data Dynamics, Hammerspace and Komprise. I hope you'll like this short episode about a paramount function within enterprises. Enjoy.

Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for File Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 27 distinct companies over 3 Maps: Enterprise, High Performance and Cloud File Storage: AWS, CTERA, DDN, Dell, Egnyte, Fujitsu, Hammerspace, HPE, Huawei, IBM, iXsystems, LucidLink, Microsoft, Nasuni, NetApp, Panzura, Peer Software, Pure Storage, Quantum, Qumulo, Quobyte, SUSE, ThinkParQ, Tiger Technology, VAST Data, Vdura and WEKA and we elect leaders for each category. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.

The 59th edition of The IT Press Tour took place early December in Valletta, Malta.

We continue our European stops and this time for the 59th edition we landed in beautiful Malta. It was once again a fantastic edition as we had the opportunity to meet 6 European companies: DigiFilm, EasyVirt, Indexima, Manticore Search, ProxySQL and Scalytics. I hope you will like the episode and we'll be in a few weeks, for the 60th edition, amazing right, in Silicon Valley.

Wasabi Technologies, the reference in cloud storage, alternative to hyperscalers' solutions with a very efficient and cost effective S3 API service, participated to the recent IT Press Tour in Boston in October. It was the perfect opportunity to meet company's executives and David Friend, co-founder and CEO, who shared his view on the market, genesis of the project and of course directions of the company. It gaves me the idea to record a dedicated episode with David to go deeper in some aspects and we did it recently, we spoke about his background and the trajectory of Wasabi with today a status of Centaur passing the $100M ARR, his partner in crime Jeff Flowers, CTO of Wasabi, some new services around the classic offering especially with the AI engine acquired based on Curio AI, business model with a pure indirect model powered by 16,000 partners and a very unique pricing model charging only the capacity used. We also covered the directions of the company with a potential IPO and for the storage service with some ideas around a on-premises instance and w few other things. A very interesting dialog with David, I hope you will like this episode. Thank you David.

SuperComputing 24 took place a few weeks ago in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again it was a very good edition with the best ever number of attendees with 18,000+, 4,000 more than last year, very impressive show. The topic was about Acceleration in various domains such a HPC, AI, Storage, Memory or Network. I insisted on key trends, some technologies and products I saw very present on the floor. Enjoy the listening.

Coldago Research has unveiled its 6th edition of its annual Map for Object Storage. The 2024 report analyzes 13 companies: Cloudian, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, Huawei, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Pure Storage, Quantum, Scality, VAST Data and WEKA and then elect 9 Leaders. I let you listen to this episode to discover who are the winners. Enjoy.