VirtualZ and x86 server/public cloud mainframe bridging software

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Two years ago we reviewed VirtualZ with its Lozen IBM mainframe data access and PropelZ mainframe data extract products. Now…
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Storage news ticker – September 29

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Data source connector builder Airbyte announced Airbyte Enterprise Flex, providing customers with data sovereignty and full control over their data,…

Rubrik adds Okta protection to identity recovery lineup

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Rubrik can now protect and restore Okta Identity Provider (IdP) environments from automated and immutable backups. Okta provides cloud-based user…

Pure’s control plane gets more intelligent, more secure

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Control plane enhancements for Pure Storage arrays and software stack are enabling customer admins to manage and secure fleets of…

Pure pushes performance and density with new FlashArray systems

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Pure Storage is making a large number of announcements at its Pure Accelerate 2025 event, subsumed under an Enterprise Data…

Quantum restructures debt as Raptor tape library secures Veeam Ready status

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Quantum is making progress financially and sales-wise with a debt for equity swap and Veeam tape library qualification. The loss-making…

StorageMAP vs SyncEngine: Datadobi explains the difference

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Interview. Datadobi’s StorageMAP tool overlaps with the functionality of SyncEngine, VAST Data’s newly announced software to find, catalog, and capture…

Solidigm adds E1.S liquid-cooled variant to PS1010 SSD line

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Solidigm has designed a liquid-cooled PS1010 SSD variant in E1.S format, enabling it to better support dense AI workloads that…

HPE bigs up its primary block AFA growth

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HPE says it has the second largest share of the primary block part of the all-flash array (AFA) market, citing…

Dell refreshes storage lines with QLC flash and beefed-up security

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Storage market leader Dell has updated four of its block, file, and backup storage product lines with higher-capacity SSDs and…

Micron rides AI-fueled DRAM wave to record revenue

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Micron revenues passed $11 billion in its final FY 2025 quarter as hyperscalers bought more memory than ever before. Revenues…

MemVerge unveils open source AI memory layer for LLMs

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MemVerge has launched an open source MemMachine software project to provide a cross-platform and long-context memory layer for large language…

Komprise launches AI-focused ingest tool to clean up unstructured data

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Data management business Komprise has launched a generally available Intelligent AI Ingest product as part of its Smart Data Workflow…

VDURA names RAID pioneer Garth Gibson as CTO

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VDURA has appointed RAID and parallel file system developer Garth Gibson as its first chief technology and AI officer (CTAIO)…

VAST Data gets public cloud burstability with Red Stapler

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When VAST Data bought Red Stapler earlier this month, it acqua-hired a company staffed entirely by NetApp leavers - just…

Storage news ticker – September 22

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Acronis will incorporate Seagate’s S3-compatible Lyve Cloud Object Storage into its Acronos Archival Storage offering to help enable MSPs to…

Neo4j backs new graph query standard for AI era

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Interview. AI searches that query any part of an organization’s data will need to look at structured as well as…

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