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Nebulon aims to replace HCI with its OS on an offload card that it claims reduces server resource use by 25%. 

Nebulon has developed a Data Processing Unit (DPU) specifically for edge servers, enabling their CPUs to fully focus on running applications.

Nebulon has existing relationships with Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro through which it supplies its Medusa1 SPUs to customers – “dozens of customers, large and small,” according to Craig Nunes. It will be hoping to use these channels for its Medusa2 [SPU] card, and possibly rely on its lights-out server management technology.

Nebulon has introduced its next-generation Medusa2 SPU.

It is the only converged infrastructure data processing unit (DPU) to unify storage, cyber and networking services on a secure, cloud-managed, server-embedded PCIe card.

Nebulon has introduced its next-generation Medusa2 SPU.

It is the first and only converged infrastructure data processing unit (DPU) to unify storage, cyber and networking services on a secure, cloud-managed, server-embedded PCIe card.

Nebulon unveils threat detection solution for cryptographic ransomware.

Nebulon adds smartDefense to its offering to detect encrypting ransomware attacks on servers, and to recover the server to a point-in-time just before the attack.

Nebulon announced TripLine and smartDefense, solutions to protect, detect, and recover the application infrastructure from ransomware in minutes.

Ransomware protection for on-premises systems and infrastructure is the goal of the latest release from Nebulon.

Tripline allows ransomware detection from samples every 30 seconds and works in conjunction with snapshots to deliver recovery from an attack in four minutes.

Nebulon announced smartDefense, a new smartInfrastructure solution for narrowing threat vectors, detecting ransomware breaches, and accelerating recovery.

Nebulon announced TripLine™, a new threat detection service designed to alert customers when a cryptographic ransomware attack has been detected, as well as the precise location and point-in-time the attack occurred. The company also announced smartDefense, a cybersecurity solution that narrows threat vectors, detects ransomware attacks, and accelerates recovery.

Nebulon named in Best Startup California's list of top 101 Cloud Management companies in California. Companies were selected based on track record, executive leadership, market share, innovation, and ESG rating.

ComputerWeekly.com talks to Tobias Flitsch, Director of Product Management at Nebulon, about the rise of edge computing and how that will drive demand for storage that needs to be secure, resilient, and centrally manageable.

Today’s global community of threat actors and hackers are sophisticated and organized, constantly on the move to find the next layer of vulnerability in your environment. A proactive, all-encompassing security strategy is essential.

Nebulon’s TimeJump and ImmutableBoot solutions work together to apply a snapshot philosophy in a broader context. TimeJump recovers critical application data as well as the infected operating systems on which that data runs, offering physical infrastructure recovery in under four minutes.

smartInfrastructure vendor Nebulon today announced that its latest offerings provide newly hardened backups for configuration and snapshots, in an effort to add a new tool to the antiransomware arsenal for Linux systems.

Siamak Nazari, CEO of Nebulon, discusses the data encryption lessons that enterprises can learn from consumer tech.

Are you wasting money on cloud services running applications that would be better off in-house, on-premises, yet know the flexibility of cloud operations is the best place for the application to run? Nebulon would like a word.

Paul Brodie joins Nebulon, the “smart infrastructure” provider, as VP of global channel sales. He comes to Nebulon from OpsRamp, the IT operations management platform vendor, where he also was VP of channel sales.

The public cloud is everywhere. Even those who are against it and try not to use it, can’t avoid it. Here are the some of the top trends companies and IT teams are seeing in the public cloud market.

With this announcement, the company provides enterprises with a 2-node alternative for their management infrastructure with near-instant recovery capabilities that occupies a 33% smaller footprint as compared to 3-node-minimum HCI solutions, which also take hours or even days to fully recover from ransomware attacks.

Nebulon announced support for 2-node management clusters on Dell PowerEdge servers with its 4-minute ransomware recovery solution, Nebulon TimeJump. With this announcement, Nebulon provides enterprises with a 2-node alternative for their management infrastructure with near-instant recovery capabilities that occupies a 33% smaller footprint as compared to 3-node-minimum hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, which also take hours or even days to fully recover from ransomware attacks.

Nebulon TimeJump can restore a compromised server’s operating environment and data in less than four minutes – because it uses snapshot technology instead of backups and is outside the server’s security domain.

Nebulon TimeJump offers ransomware recovery for critical application data and infected operating systems.

Nebulon TimeJump provides four-minute restore capabilities not only for critical application data but also infected operating systems, so application infrastructure can be brought back online near-instantly. With the debut of TimeJump, IT organizations no longer have to suffer through a lengthy manual recovery of critical infrastructure. They can instead reduce application infrastructure recovery from hours or days to under four minutes.

Not only does Nebulon provide a breakthrough ransomware recovery solution, the company’s smartInfrastructure offering also protects against ransomware attacks due to a day-one design decision.

Nebulon TimeJump provides four-minute restore capabilities not only for critical application data but also infected operating systems, so application infrastructure can be brought back online near-instantly.

Nebulon has introduced what it is calling the first and only combined server and storage solution in help organisations quickly recover from ransomware attacks.

Nebulon unveiled Nebulon TimeJump, a solution architected to address key ransomware mitigation challenges faced by CIOs and CISOs.

Nebulon unveiled Nebulon TimeJump, a solution architected to address key ransomware mitigation challenges faced by CIOs and CISOs. Nebulon TimeJump is the first and only combined server and storage solution architected to offer complete ransomware recovery in less than four minutes.

Nebulon TimeJump provides four-minute restore capabilities not only for critical application data but also infected operating systems, so application infrastructure can be brought back online near-instantly. With the debut of TimeJump, IT organisations no longer have to suffer through a lengthy manual recovery of critical infrastructure. They can instead reduce application infrastructure recovery from hours or days to under four minutes.

New smartInfrastructure service, TimeJump, architected to deliver complete ransomware recovery for both critical application data and infected operating systems.

Nebulon has unveiled Nebulon TimeJump, a solution architected to address key ransomware mitigation challenges. The company says that Nebulon TimeJump is ‘the first and only combined server & storage solution architected to offer complete ransomware recovery in less than four minutes’.

Nebulon, unveiled Nebulon TimeJump, a solution architected to address key ransomware mitigation challenges faced by CIOs and CISOs. Nebulon TimeJump is the first and only combined server and storage solution architected to offer complete ransomware recovery in less than four minutes.

The startups’s TimeJump tool leverages a proprietary infrastructure setup to speed up ransomware recovery that spans not only application data but also critical operating systems.

Data security and regulatory compliance demands are growing across various industries and countries. Organizations are increasingly challenged by evolving threats that require new processes and technologies, further complicating the task of securing and managing their data.

Nebulon has integrated its smartInfrastructure platform with Red Hat's Ansible software – including a set of modules that allow users to automate Nebulon infrastructure deployment and management by using Ansible Playbooks.

Provider of cloud-managed and hardware-accelerated – formerly ‘cloud-defined’ – storage makes further moves towards its smartInfrastructure vision, with Terraform support coming.

New Offering Advances Nebulon’s API-first Cloud Operating Platform for On-Premises IT, Helps Reduce On-Premises Operational Infrastructure Overhead by 75%

“We are proud to make automation tools and infrastructure solutions accessible for our customers, and ultimately allow them to automate their infrastructure like the biggest cloud vendors would.”

Architected to be endlessly scalable, the Nebulon cloud-control plane, Nebulon ON, follows an API-first design principle. Nebulon ON enables IT organizations to automate thousands of infrastructure devices from a single API in the cloud that is always up-to-date, works consistently across heterogeneous infrastructure, and easily backs automation frameworks such as Ansible.

“Nebulon integrated with Ansible’s automation platform enables customers to automate provisioning of their end-to-end hybrid deployments and make this a reality.”

The Nebulon Ansible Collection, combined with the Nebulon ON cloud control plane, reduces operational overhead by up to 75% compared to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and 3-tier infrastructure alternatives.

With the Nebulon Ansible Collection and a combination of Nebulon cluster (nPod), operating system, and storage provisioning, IT organisations can now deploy infrastructure end to end and configure applications entirely from within their Ansible playbooks.

Se positionnant comme une alternative aux solutions traditionnelles et HCI, Nebulon met en avant son Cloud Defined Storage, qui combine une couche de management dans le cloud (controle plane) et des cartes PCIe 3.0 (data plane) installées sur les serveurs pour fournir des ressources de stockage en local ou partagées.

“So, what is cloud IaaS? Above all, it is a console to automate deployments, set rules for networking and security, and it is virtual machines [VMs]. That’s what you get with our Nebulon ON platform and our SPU [storage processing unit] card. We needed to give it more of an IaaS colouring, however, and that’s what we’ve done in our new version, called smartInfrastructure.”

Nebulon’s server-embedded, infrastructure software delivered as-a-service – implemented on a dedicated card that functions as an IoT endpoint – allows the enterprise to manage their deep infrastructure operations, such as BIOS updates, SSD firmware updates and component health monitoring.

To Nebulon, the cloud is an operating model, not a destination: 1) 60% have repatriated workloads on-premises 2) 50% cost savings as a result of cloud repatriation 3) 46% will invest in bringing cloud experiences on-premises 4) $14B DCIaaS market by 2025

Telcos installing Nebulon at the edge in mobile towers can reduce the number of their servers to two from five, he said, and cloud service providers are being promised 40% savings in their infrastructure costs.

Nebulon is getting customer traction with its server fleet management server control cards and cloud management, as customers realise they can save big bucks by buying servers integrated with the cards.

“The cloud is extending on-premises to both enterprise and edge datacentres. Nebulon’s two-server edge solution leverages public cloud infrastructure combined with the company’s innovative API-centric management and automation, making it an ideal solution for organisations that want a modern, cloud-simple experience for edge datacentres.”

The Nebulon smartEdge solution with 2-node cluster configuration support eliminates the need for the customer to set up and maintain a third server quorum witness. Instead, Nebulon manages a single quorum witness for all edge deployment sites in the Nebulon cloud, Nebulon ON.

Nebulon's new smartEdge solution for distributed edge deployments is said to reduce infrastructure costs by 33% and also provides enterprises a smaller entry point into smartInfrastructure for test and development deployments or other projects that may start small and grow later.

The Nebulon 2-node solution is not only ideal for distributed edge deployments, but it also provides a lower entry point for new cost-constrained ones. The solution is an affordable high-availability alternative for enterprises looking to stretch the cluster across two racks for protection against partner node, power and top-of-rack (ToR) switch failures.

The 2-node smartEdge package is intended as an entry point for testing the whole Nebulon proposition or else a way to put together small projects which might grow, according to the company.

New Solution Reduces Infrastructure Costs by 33% at the Edge, and Offers Ultra-Low-Cost Entry for New smartInfrastructure Customers

The Nebulon smartEdge solution with 2-node cluster configuration support eliminates the need for the customer to set up and maintain a third server quorum witness. Instead, Nebulon manages a single quorum witness for all edge deployment sites in the Nebulon cloud, Nebulon ON.

The 2-node solution reduces infrastructure costs by 33%, allowing enterprises to deploy testing and development, and more to smartInfrastructure for small-scale start-ups and other projects that may grow later and provides a small entry point.

The Nebulon smartEdge solution with 2-node cluster configuration support eliminates the need for the customer to set up and maintain a third server quorum witness. Instead, Nebulon manages a single quorum witness for all edge deployment sites in the Nebulon cloud, Nebulon ON.

The 2-node solution reduces infrastructure costs by 33% and also provides enterprises a smaller entry point into smartInfrastructure for test and development deployments or other projects that may start small and grow later.

Nebulon has announced the availability of a 2-node Nebulon smartEdge solution for distributed edge deployments. The 2-node solution reduces infrastructure costs by 33% and also provides enterprises a smaller entry point into smart Infrastructure for test and development deployments or other projects that may start small and grow later.

UK service provider Inca to use smartInfrastructure to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads

“Inca is pioneering a multi-cloud service model for enterprises unlike anything offered in the industry today,” said Damon Dance, Director of Sales at Inca Cloud. “With a Nebulon-based Supermicro foundation for the hosted element of our multi-cloud service, we are able to bring to market a ‘smart’ vision that would have been impossible to deliver just a couple of years ago. Customers can now retain the flexibility and operating model which make the public cloud so appealing whilst regaining the control it removes, and improving both predictability and cost advantages for their cloud deployments.”

Nebulon's launch of its Nebulon smartIaaS solution, is designed to help cloud service providers deliver new services at a lower cost across both hosted and customer-owned data centres. Nebulon’s smartIaaS solution provides, monitoring and maintenance of application infrastructure in both the CSP data centre as well as that in the customer’s own data centre via a single API.

Nebulon’s smartIaaS solution is a blueprint that helps CSPs drive incremental revenue growth by provisioning, monitoring and maintaining application infrastructure in both the CSP data centre as well as that in the customer’s own data centre via a single API.

Nebulon announced the Nebulon smartIaaS^TM solution, designed to help cloud service providers deliver new services at a lower cost across both hosted and customer-owned data centers. Nebulon also announced that UK-based service provider Inca Cloud has chosen the Nebulon smartIaaS solution with Supermicro^® as a part of its new cloud service, WSO by Inca.

In this video interview, Tim Pitcher, Vice President Sales at Nebulon, talks Channel challenges, including differentiation, changing business models and hyperconverged. Working through its OEM server partners, Nebulon has recently launched the smartPartner Programme, providing Channel companies with an exciting, recurring revenue opportunity.

smartInfrastructure pioneer also introduces Nebulon smartStart and Nebulon smartRewards incentives to help resellers accelerate business while growing top and bottom line.

Nebulon announces its smartPartner program, which is targeted at the channel partners of the large OEMs who sell Nebulon’s product, is focused around two main incentives, Nebulon smartStart and Nebulon smartRewards.

Channel Partner Insight chatted to the smartInfrastructure vendor’s VP of sales to get the details on the company’s future strategy and expansion plans

The 2021 Big50 Startup Report is out and Nebulon is included in the list. Download the report now!

Nebulon smartInfrastructure was named one of the 10 hottest edge computing startups of 2021. Nebulon smartInfrastructure is server-embedded, infrastructure software delivered as-a-service that provides self-service provisioning, management and local data services at the edge.

By equipping HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus servers with Nebulon’s cloud-managed IoT endpoint, customers can leverage the SaaS-based Nebulon ON cloud control plane to gain the agility of cloud, bring the cloud operational experience to wherever their on-premises data lives and ultimately realise three major benefits.

Nebulon announced smartCore and smartEdge solution support for the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus Server using the new 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processor.

Nebulon is pushing down infrastructure cost and improving cloud management by extending smartCore and SmartEdge functionality to HPE Proliant servers.

smartInfrastructure SaaS supplier Nebulon has added support for ProLiant servers using gen-3 AMD EPYC processors to its smartCore and smartEdge products.

Nebulon Inc.®, a pioneer of smartInfrastructure^TM, server-embedded infrastructure software delivered as-a-service, today announced Nebulon smartCore^TM and Nebulon smartEdge^TM solution support for the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus Server using the new 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processor.

With this announcement, Nebulon offers customers using HPE ProLiant servers a broad range of server options for their smartInfrastructure deployments.

SYSDBA has deployed the Nebulon smartCore™ solution to bring management simplicity to its internal and hosted data centre infrastructure.

With the deployment of Nebulon smartInfrastructure, SYSDBA has achieved a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs by eliminating external array purchases and improving application infrastructure density.

Nebulon smartInfrastructure, server-embedded, infrastructure software delivered as-a-service, announced that SYSDBA (Pty) Ltd has deployed the its smartCore solution to bring management simplicity to its internal and hosted data center infrastructure.

Startup Nebulon has announced for the first time a customer win for its storage processing unit-based smartCore infrastructure. The client – South African MSP SYSDBA – said choosing Nebulon was a “no-brainer.”

SYSDBA had been using 3-tier architectures for years. However, when it came time for a refresh, the service provider sought out an innovative solution that would enable it to both consolidate racks of expensive storage and idle hosts, and also predictably and smoothly scale its internal and hosted customer environments.

“Service providers like SYSDBA rely on solutions to help them address key time-to-value and management challenges they experience in their core and hosted data centres,” said Siamak Nazari, Nebulon CEO. “With Nebulon smartInfrastructure, not only can they address these challenges, but they can save infrastructure costs doing it.”

Service Provider, SYSDBA, leverages the Nebulon smartCore Solution to transform data centre economics in Africa.

Nebulon smartInfrastructure was attractive to SYSDBA because it offered an opportunity to simplify and accelerate application deployment, control its environment from anywhere and reduce infrastructure maintenance efforts through behind-the-scenes software updates.

Nebulon has announced that SYSDBA has deployed the Nebulon smartCore solution to bring management simplicity to its internal and hosted data centre infrastructure. With this deployment, SYSDBA has achieved a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs by eliminating external array purchases and improving application infrastructure density.

Financial IT reviews Nebulon smartInfrastructure and its benefits, which include operational overhead reduction by up to 75% and  up to 50% lower cost and better data center density than existing approaches.

Cambridge-based infrastructure provider DC Intelligence (DCI) plans to use Nebulon smartEdge storage for a range of liquid-cooled rack-mounted servers it plans to offer for high-performance 5G-capable edge deployments, such as manufacturing and rural use cases.

Chris Mellor reviews Nebulon’s technology against external arrays, actual hyperconverged infrastructure, HCI with a hardware accelerator, storage accessed over SmartNICs and storage accessed via DPUs (Data Processing Units), with the aim of providing a way to better understand and differentiate Nebulon’s tech.

Nebulon, which launched its hardware-assisted cloud-defined storage in June last year, has broadened its scope to a smartInfrastructure SaaS supplier providing a better hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offering.

Nebulon announced today the availability of smartInfrastructure, server-embedded, infrastructure software delivered as-a-service, which offers the benefits of the public cloud on-premises, from core to edge for any application: containerized, virtualized or bare-metal.

Nebulon Takes Lessons from Consumer Smart Home Devices to Provide Cloud-Simplicity to On-Premises Data Centers in both North America and Europe.

Nebulon smartInfrastructure delivers a public cloud experience on-premises for enterprise application infrastructure.

Craig Nunes, Nebulon COO, joins Dave Raffo of TechTarget on a panel with other industry representatives discussing data growth and storage planning for a future of zettabytes.

Nebulon listed in TechTarget's SearchStorage top startups to watch in 2021. Nebulon attacks the processing bottleneck with an offload device that sends most processing functions to the cloud.

Nebulon is included on CRN's list of 10 data storage startups that made recent headlines as they came out of stealth or unveiled their first cloud storage, disaster recovery, and other innovations.

Nebulon's use of dual Arm processors could make the move to a unified memory design, giving Nebulon additional power to run its storage processing workload, and so exceed x86-powered storage controllers in performance, cost, and efficiency terms even more than it does now.

Nebulon, a storage startup that came out of stealth in June, aims to compete with SAN arrays and HCI. It has built a product that fits into neither category. Nebulon's advantage over HCI from offloading storage-related processing from the host server CPUs. Their advantage of SAN is cost saving.  

Nebulon's flexibility has a real attraction. Service providers, dev and test environments, shared DR facilities or those wanting a more flexible approach without some of the costs often associated with that. Supplying their cards through established server vendors is smart and positions them as an interesting vendor with a fresh approach to storage that is worth watching.

Nebulon, the leader in Cloud-Defined Storage, makes The Tech Tribune's list of 2021 Best Tech Startups in Fremont.

The simplicity and beauty of the Nebulon offering to me appears to be mostly within the buying model. The team have partnered with a number of server vendors and you can add the Nebulon SPU and services subscription to your order the same as you would any other SKU. It is really as simple as buying a RAID controller.

Will the rise of the DPU mean the fall of the traditional storage array? The Data Processing Unit (DPU) has seen a surge due to successful systems such as AWS Nitro. However, what happens when you bypass the concept of HCI using the DPU? That’s the promise from startup Nebulon.

By leveraging automation and AI, IT organisations can help ease the burden of their remote workforce with automated software updates, storage operations-as-a-service and simpler programmability for at-scale automation.

Nebulon defines its offering as “cloud-defined storage (CDS)”. It’s basically an add-in card that delivers “on-premises, server-based enterprise-class storage that consumes no server CPU / memory resources and is defined and managed through the cloud”. This is achieved via a combination of nebulon ON (the cloud management plane) and the Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU).

Storage array enhancements used to be simple; a faster drive led to faster arrays. But memory-like protocols and drives have muddied the water, and hardware-enhanced drive and array controllers are also clamouring for attention.

A solution like Nebulon can bring very similar results, and more, at a fraction of the cost. The infrastructure can be simplified and standardized on ordinary x86 boxes, with cost-effective commodity Ethernet connectivity. All the magic is delivered via the cloud, giving the user a consistent experience with full control over large, globally distributed server estates.

Nebulon has developed a Kubernetes CSI driver for its cloud-defined, DPU-enhanced server SAN storage. Nebulon ON uses cloud-analytics to allow Kubernetes admins to self-service provision and manage their entire Kubernetes stack all while using the workflows they are familiar with in the public cloud.

One company that is exploring an alternative to both a SAN and software-defined storage is Nebulon. Cloud-Defined Storage makes it easier for organizations to enable self-service provisioning to their workers, many of whom will have little idea about high availability or snapshots.

CBR interviews Siamak Nazari, co-founder and CEO of Nebulon. Nebulon's Cloud-Defined Storage is a flexible, on-prem and application server-based enterprise-class storage that consumes no server resources (CPU, network or memory) and is defined and managed through the cloud.

Nebulon uncloaked from stealth in June 2020 to add a new solution, branded cloud-defined storage, to this market. The Nebulon architecture is an intriguing solution and one that many enterprises may see as a great way to build a large-scale compute farm without the dependencies of either SAN or locked-in storage.

Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale.

Nebulon lance son " cloud-defined storage", une solution de stockage à base de serveurs sur site, destinée à des applications critiques, géré par le cloud Nebulon.

Qui propose une solution de stockage d'entreprise sur serveur dans le datacenter - défini et géré par le cloud.

Today, the startup Nebulon Inc. announced its first commercial offering. Well, I call them a startup since they are only two years old, but LinkedIn already lists fifty-two individuals who report company as their employer.

Nebulon Inc., a startup led by a group of storage industry veterans, today emerged from stealth mode with a product it bills as the “first ground-breaking innovation for server-based primary storage” since hyperconverged infrastructure.

"We've made it so application owners can consume enterprise class assets without having a PhD in storage," Craig Nunes, Nebulon COO.

Nebulon uses a cloud-defined storage method to provide better performance at better prices than the popular cloud-based storage approach for managing data.

The startup is attempting to thread the needle between expensive storage arrays and server-based solid-state drives that fall short handling critical applications and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) requiring additional server software.

Nebulon has emerged from stealth to launch a hybrid cloud computing platform that enables workloads to be processed in the cloud while data continues to be stored on a local application server.

Nebulon, whose founders have strong connections to 3PAR, which HP bought back in the day, is unveiling what they see as the first real innovation for server-based storage since HCI was introduced.

Nebulon has a new way to do mission-critical data storage using its just-launched cloud-defined storage services.

The start-up provides a compelling approach with on-prem storage and cloud-based management that should take-off very soon thanks to key partners.

Nebulon, Inc. présente son «  cloud-defined storage  » (ou stockage défini par le cloud), une solution de stockage à base de serveurs sur site, destinée à des applications critiques, géré par le cloud Nebulon.

The vendor is offering on-premises, server-based storage for mission critical applications managed by a Nebulon cloud.

Technology industry veterans launch Nebulon, Inc. and Cloud-Defined Storage, providing on-premises, server-based enterprise storage that is defined and managed through the cloud.

A gang of former 3PAR executives have emerged from stealth mode with a "revolutionary" new storage vendor that will sell 100 percent through OEM server manufacturers.

Nebulon is entering a new and undeveloped market, the DPU-enhanced server SAN market with cloud-delivered, AIOps management, and its competitors, at the OEM level, are suppliers such as Pensando and the other DPU suppliers.

Run by a gang of former 3PAR executives, Nebulon will sell 100 per cent through server OEMs including HPE.

Storage startup Nebulon plans to come out of stealth on [Tuesday] with a hardware-assisted, scale-out, all-flash storage array featuring real-time AI Ops management and a cloud control plane.

Nebulon is currently based at the Scottish Provident Building next to Belfast City Hall. It also runs offices from London and Seattle, with its headquarters based in California.

“We are delighted to be establishing our new software engineering team in Belfast, with the assistance of Invest NI,” he said. “Northern Ireland has established itself as an emerging leader in terms of skilled high tech and IT professionals.

Nebulon software manages single tier all-flash storage with enterprise-class reliability and low latency in the public cloud (currently AWS). This back-end management is said to be AI-based and provides composable operations and automatic updates for the on-premises software. It can manage multiple Nebulon arrays.

The company has secured $14.5m from unnamed sources and employs at least 85 people – who it calls Nebunerds. It aims to drastically simplify storage and to deliver secure, scalable and powerful data insights by building cloud-defined storage.

Four 3PAR alumni led by David Scott have set up Nebulon, a cloud-defined storage company. Scott was the CEO of 3PAR when it was sold for $2.4bn in 2010 to HP, now HPE. He ran the HPE storage business before retiring in February, 2015 to take sundry board-level positions…

A lot of vendors have looked to NVMe amongst the other cloud, software and hyperconverged tidbits in storage roundup this week, but let's start with some updates.