Qumulo 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...
View ArticleMarket reacts after Commvault beats Q3 forecast
Commvault substantially outperformed its revenue guidance of $245 million by reporting a 21 percent year-over-year rise to $262 million in its third fiscal 2025 quarter, ending December 31. The news...
View ArticleQumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge. Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its on-premises and public...
View ArticleStorage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP)...
View ArticleIBM boosts Storage Scale with content-aware AI integration
IBM Storage Scale, the longstanding parallel file system, now includes content-awareness to enhance its retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capability. Storage Scale has a substantial history in...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal...
View ArticleStarburst CEO: In AI, it’s data access that wins
Interview: Startup Starburst develops and uses Trino open source distributed SQL to query and analyze distributed data sources. We spoke to CEO Justin Borgman about the company’s strategy. A little...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an...
View ArticleLightbits: record Q1 with rise in sales and deal sizes
Privately-owned Lightbits says it has broken growth records in the first 2025 quarter with a business surge – though we have no way of verifying this claim. It supplies a disaggregated virtual SAN,...
View ArticleIBM has a THINK, boards the agentic enterprise AI train
IBM is giving its customers a tidal wave of watsonx AI news at its THINK 2025 conference, saying that AI agents are shifting from AI that chats with you to systems that work for you. It wants to...
View ArticleHitachi Vantara primes partnership-driven AI push
Hitachi has worked to re-evaluate the fit of its Hitachi Vantara subsidiary to respond faster to the market’s adoption of AI and AI’s accelerating development, according to its Chief Technology...
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