Storage news ticker – July 22

Adeptia Connect is a business data exchange software moving data between applications, partners, and customers, supporting data integration, application integration,…

Datafy banks $14M to slash AWS block storage bills

AWS block storage cost-cutting startup Datafy has secured $14 million in new funding, bringing total investment to $20 million. Datafy’s…

Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL

Volumez block storage for PostgreSQL on AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers more transactions per second at lower…

Quantum accounting issues delay FY 2025 results

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

NetApp names Zscaler CTO Syam Nair as new chief product officer

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

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

GridGain tech is perfectly poised for AI inferencing

Interview: GridGain software enables memory sharing by clustered servers and this means memory-bound applications can run on servers that individually…

Pure debuts Enterprise Data Cloud with Fusion updates and new FlashArray systems

Pure Storage unwrapped its previously trailed Enterprise Data Cloud architecture in Las Vegas this week as it kicked off its…

Qdrant CEO on why AI needs purpose-built vector search

Qdrant is an open source vector database startup, with more than 10 million installs. We spoke to founder and CEO…

Lucidity aims to clear up confusion over disk tiering for cloud storage

Block storage scaling specialist Lucidity has expanded its portfolio to offer a tiering service, and sketched out plans to shine…

NetApp revenues rise to all-time highs, but can it sustain?

Analysis: NetApp posted record revenue this quarter, helped by all-flash array sales and public cloud storage demand. In the fourth…

Hitachi 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…

The elephant in the storage supplier room: How to deal with AI

Comment: The big issue for storage suppliers is AI - how to store and make data accessible to AI agents…

Nexsan launches Unity NV4000 for small and remote deployments

The new Unity 4000 is a flexible, multi-port, straightforward storage array from Nexsan. The company has a focus on three…

DataCore acquires StarWind for edge hyperconverged tech

DataCore is buying edge-focused hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) supplier StarWind Software. Beverly, Massachusetts-based StarWind sells an HCI Appliance or Virtual HCI…

Hitachi Vantara adds VSP 360 see everything storage control plane

VSP 360 is Hitachi Vantara’s new management control plane for its VSP One storage portfolio, delivered as a service and…

Dell intros all-flash PowerProtect target backup appliance

Dell is launching an all-flash deduping PowerProtect backup target appliance, providing competition for all-flash systems from Pure Storage (FlashBlade), Quantum,…

VAST Data joins the Nvidia AI-Q agent rat race

VAST Data is integrating Nvidia’s AI-Q AI agent building and connecting blueprints into its storage to help its customers enter…