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, founded in 2018, was financed by founder and CEO David...
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 have no way of verifying this claim.
It supplies...
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 data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
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 drives and AI-improved storage operations on its roadmap.
CEO, founder,...
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 compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
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 GenAI model development and execution.
Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is...
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 from just seven this year?
We asked its CTO, Jakob...
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, making AI inferencing cheaper.
Chinese storage software supplier YanRong provides...
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 Threat Intelligence and working with Mandiant on incident response...
The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has released its first spec
The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has released its 200G v1.0 spec – meaning competition for Nvidia's BasePOD and SuperPOD GPU server systems from pods containing AMD and Intel GPUs/accelerators...
Google Cloud’s NetApp Volumes will link to Vertex AI
Google Cloud and NetApp are extending the NetApp Volumes storage service to work better with Vertex AI, support larger data sets, separately scale capacity and performance, and meet regional...
Google Cloud offering managed Lustre service with DDN
DDN is partnering Google Cloud with its Google Cloud Managed Lustre, powered by DDN offering.
The Lustre parallel file system enables Google Cloud to offer file storage and fast access...