Storage Ticker – 25 July 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has appointed its first CRO, Jason Wakeam, whose past experience includes serving as the VP of global sales and OEM at SnapLogic. He’s also worked at Cloudera,...
View ArticleVDURA looking to increase its channel’s Velocity
VDURA has launched a new channel partner program. HPC storage hardware and supplier supplier Panasas appointed Ken Claffey as its CEO in September last year amid substantial changes. It rebranded to...
View ArticleSeagate seasons with Starchive to improve media asset management
Digital asset management firm Starchive is adding its AI-powered tools to the Seagate Lyve Cloud Object Storage service, with the pitch that this will improve data discovery for the companies’ joint...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – September 24
Cohesity-commissioned research shows organizations are fueling ransomware attacks through their readiness to pay. Over half of all UK companies surveyed had been attacked so far in 2024, with three in...
View ArticleNetApp unveils all-flash SAN arrays, AI tech at INSIGHT 2024
NetApp announced all-flash SAN arrays, a generative AI vision, and AI-influenced updates across its product line at its NetApp INSIGHT 2024 event in Las Vegas. It has begun the Nvidia certification...
View ArticleHYCU expands SaaS data protection ahead of DORA regulations
HYCU has found a new niche of SaaS app background infrastructure configurations and resource settings that can be mission-critical and need to be protected, and new regulations like DORA will expand...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – October 10
Analytics company Cloudera has launched Cloudera AI Inference, powered by Nvidia NIM microservices and accelerated computing (Tensor core GPUs), boosting LLM speeds by a claimed 36x. A service...
View ArticleDell enhances high end PowerMax array
Dell has updated its PowerMax high-end arrays with more performance, management efficiencies, data protection, cyber-resilience, on-premises/public cloud data mobility, and a subscription business...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – October 28
Airbyte announced a new connector to Databricks’ Delta Lake that replicates data from any source. Airbyte says it enables organizations to replicate data into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform...
View ArticleDemand for data security in cloud boosts Commvault’s top line
Commvault beat last quarter’s revenue outlook as its data security, subscription-focused business grew faster than anticipated. Revenues in its second quarter of fiscal 2025 – ended September 30 – were...
View ArticleQumulo CEO charts path to tackle hybrid cloud and AI markets
Profile. Qumulo brought in Doug Gourlay in July, appointing him as president and chief executive. Gourlay also joined Qumulo’s board of directors. The business has an on-premises scale-out file system...
View ArticleApache Cassandra survey highlights growing adoption for AI workloads
Apache Cassandra is an established open source, NoSQL database designed for handling workloads across commodity servers. So what applications is it now supporting? The annual Cassandra Community survey...
View ArticleDell brings APEX file and protection services to Azure
Dell will provide APEX file and protection services to Microsoft’s Azure cloud customers and supply AI services for Copilot use. APEX is a set of compute, storage, and networking services supplied...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – November 22
Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, Backblaze expects to grant...
View ArticleStorage News Ticker – 26 November
45Drives has announced the Stornado F16, its most powerful storage server to date. It has a 2RU chassis with: It claims this is a ‘”leap forward from the acclaimed Stornado F2, doubling the number of...
View ArticleWeaviate launches vector embeddings generation service
Vector database supplier Weaviate says its Weaviate Embeddings enable data items to be converted into vectors and stored for use by GenAI apps. It launches with Snowflake’s Arctic-Embed open source...
View ArticleRubrik Annapurna is a RAG ETL service for GenAI
Rubrik has announced its Annapurna offering, a single API service for customers building GenAI applications, which will integrate with Amazon Bedrock and give its large language models access to...
View ArticleVirtuozzo leadership revamp targets VMware switchers
Virtuozzo has had a executive restructuring with founder Serg Bell returning to the CEO role, along with other senior exec changes, as the company focuses on the small and medium enterprise (SME)...
View ArticleStorage Ticker – December 16 2024
Seattle-based Amperity has launched a Customer Data Cloud – an AI-powered setup designed to help users transform raw customer data in a data warehouse into actionable business assets through its...
View ArticleThe data-driven holiday hustle
COMMISSIONED: AI and advanced storage systems ensure a smooth and profitable winter shopping season, so retailers don’t miss a beat during the holiday rush. As the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on Black...
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