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Many people think of Backblaze as just a cloud backup provider for Mac users looking to have an offsite copy of their photos, movies, documents, etc. The company also offers some robust business solutions as well. Today, Backblaze is announcing a new Backblaze B2 partnership with Vultr that gives organizations a storage alternative to the big three technology companies.

Scalable cloud storage and compute are necessities for most modern applications, said Nilay Patel, VP of Sales and Partnerships at Backblaze. With Backblaze and Vultr together, its no longer a necessity for organizations to tolerate vendor lock-in, complexities, and costs that have traditionally come with legacy options.

The Backblaze-Vultr partnership means more developers can build the flexible tech stacks theywant to build, without having to make needlessly tough choices between access andaffordability, said Shane Zide, VP of Global Partnerships at Vultr. When two companies whofocus on ease-of-use and price-performance make their technologies work together, the wholeis greater than the sum of the parts.

In todays landscape for data storage, having more options is always a fantastic idea. Vultr is the largest privately owned global hyper-scale cloud provider on the market, so it becomes a nice alternative to feeling forced into using Amazon, Google, or Microsoft cloud business storage for scalability.

Vultr has more than 1.3 million customers, with more than 40 million instances deployed across 17 global environments. Vultr brings an affordable and easy-to-use cloud environment for businesses looking to streamline operations and avoid working with the biggest tech giants on the market.

For more information, check out the Backblaze blog.

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Auth Service enables developers to quickly build a user authentication system at lower costs by providing a pre-built, hosted authentication system. It provides SDKs for different platforms, allowing users to sign into apps using a cellphone number, email address, HUAWEI ID, or mainstream third-party accounts such as Facebook and Twitter for a smooth sign-in experience.

Cloud Functions helps to quickly build app backend servicesallowing code to be run without having to manage any servers. With it, development and testing are carried out by function, so developers can focus on service logic development. It also helps to simplify O&M and allocate resources properly.

Cloud DB, a scalable serverless database, offers secure and reliable data management services. It provides easy-to-use cloud and device SDKs.And it ensures data can be automatically synchronized among different devices, meaning you can use Cloud DB to quickly develop secure and reliable apps.

Cloud Storage allows developers to securely and economically store high volumes of data such as images, audio, and video generated by users.It provides cloud and device SDKs so developers do not need to set up servers or make content delivery network (CDN) configurations, and O&M can be completed automatically.

Cloud Hosting provides one-stop hosting capabilities enabling quick website release. That is, users can access web apps without needing to deploy any cloud servers. With Cloud Hosting, developers can focus only on building service logic instead of needing to pay attention to deployment details over the cloud.

In conclusion, HUAWEI AppGallery Connect Serverless Services offers:

1. Pay-as-you-go mode

2. O&M-free services

3. Fast rollout capability

We are now offering free quotas for developers to try out these services. For more details, please refer to the following documents: Auth Service, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Cloud DB, and Cloud Hosting. You can also explore more on Github.For any questions, please send an email to [emailprotected].

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NetApp grew its revenues 12 per cent year-on-year to $1.46 billion in its first fiscal 2022 quarter, ended July 30, and near the high end of its guidance, with profits up 162.3 per cent to $202 million.

This was not as high a growth rate as Pures 23 per cent, but far better than Dells one per cent decline in its storage revenues.

The announcement statement by CEO George Kurian was straightforward: Building on our accelerating momentum through last year, we are off to a great start to fiscal 2022, with strong revenue, gross margin, and operating leverage across the entire business.

He was much more enthusiastic in the earnings call: We just finished a phenomenal quarter. In Q1, we grew our all-flash business by 23 per cent, overall product revenue by 16 per cent and cloud by 155 per cent year-on-year. We raised our fiscal year to eight to nine per cent growth and anticipate delivering close to $5 in earnings per share. These are all record numbers, right, operating margins, full year and earnings per share for the company. So, I feel very, very, very good about where we are.

Kurian is confident that NetApp gained share in the storage and all-flash markets.

Financial summary:

A chart shows the renewed growth pattern in its quarterly revenues, with five successive growth quarters since its fiscal 2020 year commenced:

There is still some way to go to get back to fiscal 2012 and 2013 revenue levels, but we are seeing a strong recovery as the COVID pandemic plays out.

NetApp saw strength and momentum with All-Flash Arrays (AFA), which now have a $2.8 billion run rate although that was down from last quarters $2.9 billion. NetApps AFAs have a 29 per cent penetration of the installed ONTAP base, so there is still a lot of latent demand ahead.

CFO Mike Berry said We ended Q1 with over $3.9 billion in deferred revenue an increase of eight per cent year-over-year. Q1 marks the 14th consecutive quarter of year-over-year deferred revenue growth, which continues to be the best indicator of the health of our recurring revenue.

NetApp rejigged its reporting segments with two new classifications: Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud. The Hybrid Cloud segment covers on-premises/private cloud storage and data management products, such as ONTAP and StorageGRID arrays, with links to the public cloud. The Public Cloud includes products delivered as-a-service from public clouds, such as Spot.

Hybrid Cloud revenues in the quarter were $1.38 billion up 8.7 per cent on a year ago and driven by AFA growth. The much smaller Public Cloud segment pulled in just $79 million, up a huge 154.8 per cent over the same period. This was driven by driven by Cloud Volumes, Cloud Insights, and Spot by NetApp services. Public Cloud annual recurring revenue rose 89 per cent to $337 million.

We think that NetApp must have high hopes indeed for its Public Cloud segment to be be separating it out at such a low revenue point. It is a completely different business from its traditional storage business as we pointed out in July when NetApp added a Windows 365/CloudPC offering to its Spot cloud broking business.

Kurian said Our Public Cloud services not only allow us to participate in the rapidly growing cloud market, they also make us a more strategic data center partner to our enterprise customers, driving share gains in our Hybrid Cloud business.

He is confident that the Public Cloud business will grow. I think we see that over the next few years, as businesses deploy more of their core operations on public clouds, the opportunities we have around compute automation management through Spot, storage and data protection and management through Cloud Volumes and monitoring through Cloud Insights will be a very, very strong business. And all of the hyperscaler partners that we work with see it much the same way, which is why theyre building more and more capabilities with us.

We also see a new growth engine in the Public Cloud segment with all of the cloud native work we are doing around containers and serverless.

The Public Cloud focus is influencing M&A, with Berry pointing out: Our acquisition strategy will remain focused on bolstering our strategic Public Cloud roadmap.

The outlook for the second FY22 quarter is $1.54 billion +/- $50 million an 8.8 per cent rise on a year ago. The full FY22 outlook is for revenues to be eight to nine per cent higher than FY21s $5.74 billion, meaning $6.2 billion to $6.26 billion.

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