Funds will help bring the deduplication product to market Seagate Technology and Intel’s venture capital arm lead a $15 million funding round for Reduxio Systems, a start-up whose technology deletes redundant data even before it’s written to a tiered storage system’s cache. Israel-based Reduxio invented a storage operating system called NoDup that identifies duplicate data at the block level and discards it before it’s written. By eliminating duplicate data “in-line” (before it’s written to storage), NoDup maximizes DRAM, solid-state drive and hard drive capacity. “Reduxio has built an architecture that can truly leverage the capabilities of hard disk drives, solid state storage, and future non-volatile technologies together in a single system,” Rocky Pimentel, president of Global Markets and Customers at Seagate, said in a statement. Tiered, or hybrid storage systems, like NoDup’s, automatically prioritize data based on pre-set corporate policies and store it on the most appropriate media, such as SSDs, hard drives or tape drives. NoDup also performs compression on data before it’s written, further economizing storage capacity on data center-class storage systems. “This contrasts with other deduplication technologies which, paradoxically, eventually end up with uncompressed duplicates,” the company states on its product description site. The latest round of funding follows a $12 million series A infusion last year. Reduxio was founded by former employees of IBM, EMC, NetApp and Dell. With its most recent funding contribution, Seagate has obtained a seat on Reduxio’s board of directors. Reduxio’s storage OS implements active tiering across multiple tiers, NoDup in-line deduplication and compression, and BackDating for data recovery. Reduxio said it will use the venture capital funds to accelerate product development and support marketing. “Seagate’s investment … will help us to bring our products to customers earlier,” Reduxio CEO Mark Weiner said in a statement. The latest round of VC funding for Israel-based Recuxio also included Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and Carmel Ventures. Related content news analysis Apple earnings: About that iPhone 'slump' in China Based on information from Thursday's earnings report, it seems that data pointing to an iPhone slump in China were over-baked. By Jonny Evans May 03, 2024 9 mins iMac iPhone Apple news Microsoft begins to phase out ‘classic’ Teams Microsoft is encouraging Teams customers to move to the new, faster version of the collaboration app; the older version will be switched off next year. By Matthew Finnegan May 03, 2024 3 mins Microsoft Teams Collaboration Software Productivity Software news analysis Apple confirms it will open up the iPad in Europe this fall The latest efforts to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act mean developers can offer to side load apps to both iPhones and iPads in the EU. Apple has also taken steps to improve what it offers to smaller and non-commercial developers in the By Jonny Evans May 02, 2024 6 mins iPad Apple Mobile Apps news Udacity offers laid-off US workers free access to its courses for 30 days Sign-ups will be available over the next 30 days By Lucas Mearian May 02, 2024 4 mins Technology Industry IT Jobs IT Skills Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe