Author: Dave Raffo

Google Cloud Set to Launch NVIDIA-Powered A3 GPU Virtual Machines
September 5, 2023

Google Cloud Set to Launch NVIDIA-Powered A3 GPU Virtual Machines

Dave Raffo, senior analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the AI partnership between Google Cloud and GPU vendor NVIDIA, highlighted by the general availability launch of NVIDIA-powered...
Google Enhances GKE With Advanced Security, “Cluster Fleet” Management
September 5, 2023

Google Enhances GKE With Advanced Security, “Cluster Fleet” Management

Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst and Steven Dickens, VP and Practice leader at The Futurum Group, analyze how Google’s GKE Enterprise can help platform engineers looking for an integrated, managed, commercial...
Pure Storage Revenue Beats Expectations, as Gen AI Adds to Growth
September 1, 2023

Pure Storage Revenue Beats Expectations, as Gen AI Adds to Growth

Dave Raffo and Camberley Bates, analysts at The Futurum Group, share their insights on Pure Storage’s Q2 fiscal 2024 revenue success, driven by strong FlashBlade sales, AI deals, and subscriptions....
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Is Launched
August 28, 2023

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Is Launched

Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the latest collaboration between Google Cloud and NetApp Storage. With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, NetApp now has first-party...
VMware Disaggregates HCI with vSAN Max
August 25, 2023

VMware Disaggregates HCI with vSAN Max

Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, takes an early look at VMware’s vSAN Max, a disaggregated take on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) that enables independent scaling of storage and...
Pure Storage Brings Purely Block Storage to Azure_VMware Cloud
August 25, 2023

Pure Storage Brings Purely Block Storage to Azure/VMware Cloud

Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, looks at how Pure Storage is making Cloud Block Store available for Azure VMware Solutions. This is first block-only storage for AVS....
Dynatrace Will Acquire Rookout to Add Code Debugging to Its Observability
August 14, 2023

Dynatrace Will Acquire Rookout to Add Code Debugging to Its Observability

Steven Dickens, VP & Practice Leader at The Futurum Group, and Senior Analyst Dave Raffo look at the latest announcements from Dynatrace, including the agreement to acquire Rookout, a company...
AWS Storage Day 2023: AWS Tackles AI/ML, Cyber-Resiliency in the Cloud
August 11, 2023

AWS Storage Day 2023: AWS Tackles AI/ML, Cyber-Resiliency in the Cloud

The Futurum Group’s senior analysts Krista Macomber and Dave Raffo share their insights on AWS Storage Day performance and cost improvements made to Elastic Block Storage, FSx file storage, and...
Commvault Reports Q1 2024 Flat Revenues but SaaS Backup Is Catching On
August 2, 2023

Commvault Reports Q1 2024 Flat Revenues but SaaS Backup Is Catching On

The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Dave Raffo provide their take on Commvault fiscal Q1 2024 earnings report, which demonstrates that the data protection vendor is continuing to make strides...
Hammerspace Raises $56.7M in Funding to Unlock Business Opportunities
July 28, 2023

Hammerspace Raises $56.7M in Funding to Unlock Business Opportunities

Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Hammerspace’s $56.7 million funding round and what it means for its data orchestration global file system software....
Nasuni Bolsters Cyber Security, Integrates with Microsoft Sentinel
July 24, 2023

Nasuni Bolsters Cybersecurity, Integrates with Microsoft Sentinel

The Futurum Group Senior Analyst Dave Raffo looks at Nasuni’s cyber-resiliency features added to its Ransomware Protection service, and its integration with Microsoft Sentinel....
What CISOs Want From Data Protection
July 24, 2023

Searching for That Good Restore Point

The Futurum Group senior analyst Dave Raffo digs into survey and interview results from CISOs about their data management and data protection strategies....

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