Storage

Storage startup Livible acquires Boston company as Terry Drayton’s latest venture expands nationally

by Nat Levy on November 21, 2017November 21, 2017 at 8:59 amComment

Livible, the storage company founded by startup vet Terry Drayton, has acquired Boston-based Fetch Storage as it embarks on East and West Coast expansion. Livible aims to take the hassle… Read More

New pricing tiers for Box Platform make it easier to project monthly storage costs

by Tom Krazit on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 at 10:17 amComment

Box made it a little easier for developers to use its storage services in their applications Tuesday, unveiling new pricing models with set levels of resources. There are now three… Read More

Storage is on sale in the public cloud, as compute pricing stabilizes in early 2017

by Tom Krazit on April 20, 2017April 20, 2017 at 10:24 amComment

The Big Three public cloud vendors have been cutting prices on their computing services for years, but new research finds that compute pricing is stabilizing as storage and databases become… Read More

Former Isilon executive Bill Richter named CEO of Qumulo, says new job was a ‘no brainer’

by John Cook on November 29, 2016November 29, 2016 at 1:15 pm1 Comment

Peter Godman and Bill Richter have known each other for 10 years, dating back to the time when the two tech executives worked together at Seattle-based Isilon Systems. That data… Read More

Amazon rolls out unlimited photo storage for Prime members and their families

by Monica Nickelsburg on October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 at 8:17 amComment

Amazon continues to beef up perks of its $99 per year Prime program, this time with unlimited photo storage for members’ friends and family. Called “Family Vault,” the new service… Read More

Data storage startup Igneous ends lengthy stealth period, unveiling ‘true cloud for local data’

by Dan Richman on October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 at 9:24 am1 Comment

All the benefits of public-cloud data storage, behind your own firewall. That’s the promise Seattle startup Igneous Systems is making with its first product offering, which it’s announcing today after three… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Minima helps companies manage data, reduce hardware spend

by Monica Nickelsburg on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 at 2:45 pm1 Comment

The amount of data that businesses and individuals produce is growing exponentially. While the ability to track virtually ever aspect of an organization can be powerful, the sheer volume of information… Read More

How EMC Isilon is helping sports teams, broadcasters store and manage data

by Taylor Soper on September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 at 11:15 am 2 Comments

You may not associate a data storage company like EMC Isilon with the sports world, but the pairing is becoming more common given the recent influx of technology being used… Read More

Trapeze artists and stilts: Check out the scene at this startup’s high-flying launch party

by John Cook on March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 at 3:52 pm 2 Comments

Fast-growing Seattle startup Qumulo is looking to transform how companies manage data, with what the company calls the first “data-aware scale-out network attached storage (NAS) platform.” Whoa, that’s a mouthful.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Filelize automatically stores, syncs your cloud files in one place

by Taylor Soper on June 5, 2014February 3, 2015 at 7:18 pm1 Comment

Being able to access and work on files in the cloud is often convenient, but it can be somewhat troublesome to constantly sync and track down documents that you have across different cloud services.… Read More

Your neighbor’s closet is now for rent: Stash helps you find places to store your stuff

by Taylor Soper on May 27, 2014September 2, 2014 at 4:25 pm 6 Comments

Lots of people have extra space in their homes. Others want an easy and inexpensive way of storing their excess items. Stash, a new Seattle startup launching in beta today,… Read More

As Box preps for IPO, CEO Aaron Levie brings his road show home — with some tough love for Seattle

by Taylor Soper on April 4, 2014September 5, 2014 at 2:32 pm 26 Comments

As Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie took the stage Thursday afternoon at the Box World Tour road show in his hometown of Seattle, he didn’t start talking his company’s pending… Read More

Storage startup Coho Data raises $25M from Ignition, Andreessen Horowitz

by John Cook on November 5, 2013November 5, 2013 at 9:31 amComment

Coho Data, an integrated storage startup with offices in Vancouver, B.C. and Sunnyvale, Calif., has raised a $25 million venture round from Ignition Partners and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. The company… Read More

Cloud wars: The battle lines are changing in online storage

by Nav Nathoo on April 13, 2013April 13, 2013 at 7:55 am 3 Comments

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… people used filing cabinets to store their documents and files, secretaries were hired to manage these files and search for… Read More

Venture capitalist Mark Ashida takes reins at cloud storage startup Symform

by John Cook on January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 at 11:25 amComment

Well, here’s one job you can score if your venture capital firm starts to wind down: Take over the CEO post at one of your portfolio companies. That’s what is… Read More

German agency seals $23M deal for high-powered Cray supercomputers to improve the science of weather predictions

by John Cook on January 15, 2013January 15, 2013 at 7:56 amComment

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray Inc. has sealed a $23 million deal to deliver two XC30 supercomputers and two Sonexion 1600 storage systems to Germany’s National Meteorological Service, one of the world’s… Read More

Cray makes bold move in data storage, hires majority of Texas team from SFW

by John Cook on October 18, 2012October 18, 2012 at 7:55 am 4 Comments

Here’s one way to bolster a business, and pick up some talented staffers in a tight hiring market. Seattle supercomputer maker Cray announced Thursday that it has hired the majority… Read More

Amazon unveils new storage and backup service ‘Glacier’

by John Cook on August 21, 2012August 21, 2012 at 9:44 am 2 Comments

Another day, another new offering from Amazon Web Services. Today, the company rolled out Amazon Glacier, described as a low-cost storage, data archiving and backup service. “With Amazon Glacier, customers… Read More

Fast-growing storage upstart Box unpacks $125 million in funding

by John Cook on July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 at 8:37 am 3 Comments

Box, the file sharing and data storage startup founded seven years ago by Mercer Island High School grads Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, has reeled in a whopping $125 million… Read More

Ex-Isilon, Amazon engineers start stealthy Qumulo

by John Cook on April 6, 2012April 6, 2012 at 2:16 pmComment

Isilon System is one of the biggest startup success stories of the past 10 years, with the Seattle storage company rebounding from tough times to sell for a whopping $2.25… Read More

‘Mooning’ Microsoft: Box skips software giant in release of new mobile cloud service

by John Cook on March 28, 2012March 28, 2012 at 10:50 am 12 Comments

Was there something traumatic about Aaron Levie’s childhood that caused an intense dislike of Microsoft? The founder of the Silicon Valley online storage service Box attended Mercer Island High School,… Read More

Exclusive: The inside details on EMC’s $36M purchase of Likewise Software

by John Cook on March 27, 2012March 28, 2012 at 11:44 am 4 Comments

Few details were available last week when EMC purchased Likewise Software. Now, GeekWire has learned that EMC’s Isilon unit paid $36.6 million for the 7-year-old Bellevue company — a deal that Likewise… Read More

EMC’s Isilon division buys storage software company Likewise

by John Cook on March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 at 5:13 pmComment

The Isilon Storage Division of EMC Corp. is expanding its footprint in its own backyard, gobbling up Bellevue software storage startup Likewise in a deal of undisclosed size. In a… Read More

Divergent Ventures racks up a ‘big exit’ with sale of FlashSoft

by John Cook on February 15, 2012February 15, 2012 at 3:32 pmComment

Seattle venture capital firm Divergent Ventures is celebrating today as SanDisk Corp. announced the purchase of FlashSoft, a Sunnyvale, Calif. maker of software caching products. Terms of the deal were… Read More

Amazon.com announces price cuts on S3 storage service

by John Cook on February 6, 2012February 6, 2012 at 10:39 pm1 Comment

Amazon Web Services is cutting prices … again. The company just announced a series of price reductions related to its S3 storage service, with Jeff Barr of AWS explaining the… Read More

Amazon.com launches new storage gateway service to securely backup data

by John Cook on January 25, 2012January 25, 2012 at 1:38 am 2 Comments

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a yet another new offering today called AWS Gateway Storage, a service that the company said will provide businesses with an easy way to securely… Read More

Mozy rolls out Stash, another place to access files on the go

by John Cook on January 24, 2012January 24, 2012 at 5:44 pm 4 Comments

There’s no shortage of online storage and synchronization services on the market, from Box.net to Dropbox to Apple’s iCloud to Seattle’s very own TappIn (acquired last month by GlobalScape). Now, here… Read More

Cloud storage startup Symform scores $2 million

by John Cook on January 24, 2012January 24, 2012 at 6:57 amComment

Symform has raised an additional $2 million in funding from WestRiver Capital, OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners, bringing total cash raised in the Seattle cloud storage startup to $9 million.… Read More

Ignition Partners bankrolls flash storage startup WhipTail

by John Cook on January 17, 2012January 17, 2012 at 7:50 amComment

Ignition Partners is continuing its transformation into a national venture capital firm. The latest example is WhipTail, a Whippany, New Jersey company that today announced a second round of venture… Read More

Tunebox: A new way to listen to music from your Dropbox account

by John Cook on November 16, 2011November 16, 2011 at 11:10 amComment

Seattle developer Phil Kast was rock climbing in Eldorado Canyon near Boulder two months ago when he slipped off a ledge, falling 15 feet and breaking his tibia. But while… Read More