How Pure Storage developed the FlashBlade//EXA system

Interview. What led up to Pure Storage developing a new disaggregated system architecture for its FlashBlade//EXA? Pure Storage was founded…

Scale Computing picks Veeam as its bestie backup supplier

Edge, ROBO and mid-market hyperconverged infrastructure biz Scale Computing, is launching support for its Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) within the…

Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint

A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and…

Hammerspace secures $100M to chase AI-driven data growth

Data orchestrator Hammerspace has ingested $100 million in funding to accelerate its global expansion. Up until two years ago, Hammerspace,…

Pure debuts RC20 FlashArray//C with reused controllers for smaller deployments

Pure Storage has introduced a more affordable, low-capacity FlashArray//C model, the RC20, built with reconditioned controllers and aimed at edge…

Lightbits: 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…

InfluxData rolls out InfluxDB 3 to power real-time apps at scale

InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions in a bid to speed and simplify time series data processing.…

NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner

Paul KunertEdit Profile NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner. The…

DAOS file system lives on after Optane

The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark…

Storage suppliers stare down Trump slump after tariff mayhem

Analysis. The latest round of tariff confusion – including a last-minute US Customs exemption for computers, smartphones, and related components,…

Storadera touts low-cost S3 storage hosted entirely in the EU

Estonia-based Storadera's pitch is simple: low-cost, single-tier S3 storage in the cloud using optimized disk drive storage with higher-capacity shingled…

Storage 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…

Redis Vector Sets and LangCache speed GenAI models

Redis has announced the Vector Sets data type and fully managed LangCache semantic caching service for faster and more effective…

Keepit answers SaaS app backup scheme questions

How is self-hosted SaaS backup service business Keepit going to back up hundreds of different SaaS apps by 2028, starting…

China's YanRong integrates KVCache with its filesystem to accelerate AI inferencing

By integrating KVCache into its filesystem, YanRong says it has dramatically improved the KV cache hit rates and long-context processing,…

Cohesity goes Googlewards with Gaia, Gemini and Mandiant

Data protector Cohesity is integrating its Gaia GenAI search assistant with Google’s Gemini AI model and its Agentspace, using Google…

Snowflake tethers itself to Iceberg

Cloud data warehouser Snowflake is supporting the Apache Iceberg open table format alongside its own native data table formats. Iceberg…