Storage news ticker – February 9
Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says that AI-enhanced phishing affected more than 90 percent of...
View ArticleRun:ai in full AI stack deal with VAST Data
VAST Data is hooking up with AI stack orchestrator Run:ai to provide storage and data infrastructure services for Run:ai’s AI tool chain and framework management for GPUs in a full stack deal....
View ArticleGenerative AI designs: subscribe your way to faster ROI
COMMISSIONED: If the pundit prognostications prove correct, adoption of generative AI in enterprises will mature in 2024. Especially if the money organizations expect to invest in Generative AI (GenAI)...
View ArticleCatching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul
Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened since then? Hitachi Vantara was the US-based storage and IT Infrastructure...
View ArticleQumulo unveils Azure-native cold storage solution
Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold) is the new cloud-native cold file data storage service from Qumulo. Qumulo provides scalable and parallel access file system software and services for datacenters,...
View ArticleGenerative AI and the wizardry of the wide-open ecosystem
COMMISSIONED: IT leaders face several challenges navigating the growing generative AI ecosystem, but choosing a tech stack that can help bring business use cases to fruition is among the biggest. The...
View ArticleVAST Data ports software to Google Cloud
VAST Data has ported its Data Platform software to Google’s cloud enabling users to spin up VAST clusters there. Update: VAST can work with Vertex AI. 12 April 2024. VAST supplies all-flash storage...
View ArticleCTERA goes on the offensive to drive further growth
Cloud file storage vendor CTERA has made a number of enhancements to its offering as it reports consistent growth for the year. At this week’s IT Press Tour in Rome, CEO Oded Nagel said CTERA “doubled”...
View ArticleQumulo launches Cloud Native file system on AWS
Scale-out parallel file system supplier Qumulo now runs natively in AWS. The company has announced the initial private availability of Qumulo Cloud Native file system in the AWS cloud. Qumulo’s Core...
View ArticleDemystifying multicloud complexity with a universal storage layer
COMMISSIONED: All organizations today use information technology (IT) to deliver their value. While the intensity and depth of reliance on IT varies across industries and individual entities, software...
View ArticleCommvault surpasses forecasts with strong subscriber growth
Solid customer and subscription growth sent Commvault quarterly revenues past forecasts and set the scene for continued growth. Revenues in the quarter, ended March 31, were $232.3 million – 9.7...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – May 1
SaaS backup startup Alcion founder and CEO Niraj Tolia tweets: “Let me be blunt. On-prem backup is an evolutionary dead end, especially for SaaS services like Microsoft 365.” … AWS announced GA of...
View ArticleGridGain in-memory data and generative AI
Interview: GridGain software provides a way for clustered servers to share memory and therefore run apps needing more memory than that supported by a single server. Lalit Ahuja, GridGain CTO, reckons...
View ArticleSpectra Logic and Geyser Data serve up TAPAS – Tape-as-a-service
On-premises tape library system vendor Spectra Logic is offering its products as a service. Spectra Logic customers buy its Tfinity and Cube tape library systems for deployment on-premises as backup...
View ArticleNetApp adds RAG features to BlueXP and makes ONTAP more secure
NetApp has increased ONTAP’s security and cyber-resilience and given its BlueXP control plane classification capabilities for retrieval-augmented generation. Along with its A-Series all-flash array and...
View ArticleVawlt CEO thinks single cloud dependence is a mistake
Interview. Our UniSuper Google Cloud disaster story spurred a discussion with Ricardo Mendes, CEO and co-founder of Portugal-based Vawlt – a software startup looking at moving securely data to the...
View ArticleDell unveils PowerStore Prime with enhanced NVMe performance and scalability
Dell is upgrading its PowerStore software to PowerStore Prime at Dell Technologies World 2024 in Las Vegas, as well as introducing a QLC (4 bits/cell) model to increase storage density and lower cost...
View ArticleNutanix partners with EDB to fit database service for AI
Nutanix is partnering with EDB to integrate its PostgreSQL software in Nutanix’s Database Service with an AI aspect to the deal. It also announced the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), which...
View ArticleInfinidat unveils EPYC 4th gen InfiniBox arrays
Infinidat has upgraded its InfiniBox arrays to fourth-generation hardware with a higher level of performance and added cyber-protection, Azure support, a controller upgrade program, and increased...
View ArticleAll-flash leads NetApp revenues higher
NetApp’s latest quarterly revenues swelled higher led by all-flash array demand. Revenues rose for the third successive time to $1.67 billion in the fourth quarter of NetApp’s fiscal 2024, ended April...
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