Cristie verifies backup recoverability in clean room for major platforms

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Cristie Software can automatically verify the recoverability of backups and systems from Rubrik, Cohesity, IBM, and Dell within a clean…
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Cloudian: AI inference will need an immense amount of storage

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Interview: In a briefing with Cloudian founder and CEO Michael Tso, we explored the data storage demands of AI and…

Western Digital sees HAMR capacity advantage in roadmap

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Interview: We had the opportunity to speak with Ahmed Shihab, Western Digital chief product and engineering officer, and he told…

Cerabyte promises fast, dense, low-cost tape alternative by 2030

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Cerabyte says it could deliver a 100-plus PB archival storage rack with 2 GBps bandwidth and sub-10-second time to first…

Quantum accounting issues delay FY 2025 results

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Quantum can’t file its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results because of accounting problems similar to those it experienced…

Panzura adds ACL remediation to Symphony to combat permissions sprawl

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Panzura has added Access Control List (ACL) analysis and automated remediation to the Symphony data management offering. Symphony software, positioned…

Quobyte storage powers Zoox robotaxi training

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Parallel file system software Quobyte is being used by robotaxi developer Zoox to store vehicle sensor and simulation data for…

Storage news ticker – June 30

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Abstract Security announced LakeVilla, a new product aimed at offering customers a cloud-native cold storage facility built for long-term security…

Databahn thinks your SIEM data is mostly wasted – AI to the rescue

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Startup Databahn diagnoses security threats by using AI agents to trawl through masses of log telemetry data. Dallas, Texas-based Databahn…

VDURA takes aim at VAST, WEKA, DDN with AI-HPC storage reboot

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VDURA CEO Ken Claffey believes that the company should be classed alongside DDN, VAST Data, and WEKA as an extreme…

Micron touts 2600 QLC SSD with TLC-class write performance

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The new 2600 client QLC SSD from Micron dynamically optimizes its cache to get QLC flash writing like TLC. NAND…

Rubrik acquires Predibase to scale AI agent development

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Cyber-resilience supplier Rubrik is buying AI agent development startup Predibase to accelerate agentic AI adoption. Predibase is a 2021 startup…

Micron posts record Q3 as HBM-fueled DRAM sales surge

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Micron reported record revenue in its third fiscal 2025 quarter as DRAM sales rocketed, with 50 percent sequential growth in…

Four more HBM generations to arrive

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Four more high-bandwidth memory (HBM) generations have been outlined by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) and its…

NetApp warns AI race will be won on data infrastructure, not hype

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A NetApp AI Space Race report asks whether China, the USA, or another country will become the world leader in…

NetApp names Zscaler CTO Syam Nair as new chief product officer

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NetApp has recruited Zscaler CTO Syam Nair to be its new chief product officer, replacing the departing Harvinder Bhela. Bhela…

HPE touts Nvidia-powered AI factories at Discover 2025

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AI is everywhere at HPE Discover 2025 with Nvidia-fueled AI factories taking top billing, Alletra storage products playing their part…

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