VDURA offers to undercut all-flash rivals amid SSD price surge
VDURA is offering a Flash Relief Program whereby it will match or beat VAST Data and WEKA all-flash array quotes on performance and capacity measures, and at half the total...
Seagate beats revenue forecast as datacenter disk demand surges
Seagate surpassed the high end of the prior quarter’s $2.8 billion revenue outlook with $2.83 billion for its second fiscal 2026 quarter – a 21.5 percent rise year-on-year based on...
SK Hynix to spin Solidigm into new US AI investment vehicle
SK Hynix is looking to restructure Solidigm, its acquired Intel NAND fab and SSD business, and invest in AI-related US businesses to strengthen the role of its memory products...
Commvault sets revenue record – and restructures
Data protection and cyber-resilience business Commvault went well past the $300 million high-end guidance for its third fiscal 2026 quarter, with a thumping 19 percent revenue jump to $314...
Redis hits $300M ARR as AI workloads drive growth
Redis has passed $300 million in annual recurring revenue for its eponymous real-time, in-memory database. Downloads of its Vector Library (RedisVL) for AI workloads reached nearly 1 million in...
VAST Data launches Amplify to reclaim stranded NVMe capacity
VAST Data’s Amplify is a formal program designed to assess a customer’s installed NVMe SSDs and determine whether VAST’s claimed lower-overhead data protection and more efficient data reduction can...
Alerify taps Zadara to deliver sovereign edge AI cloud
US datacenter and cloud services provider Alerify is using Zadara cloud offerings to provide edge AI private cloud services.
Alerify is a regional CSP, based in Pennsylvania, with a Tier...
Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors
WEKA and Hammerspace have issued guides on how to respond to the memory and SSD supply shortages and price hikes that now appear endemic. Both focus on tiering and...
Block storage has a role in AI training, says Lightbits Labs
It’s not either block storage or file/object storage for AI training and inference. It’s both.
AI large language model (LLM) training requires stacks of data, both files and objects, but...
Storage news ticker – 23 January
Data source connector Airbyte has joined the Linux Foundation's newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member. The Agentic AI Foundation is building a collaborative ecosystem of...
Hammerspace appoints new sales head
Jeff Giannetti, Hammerspace’s Chief Revenue Officer, has left the company, with Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, taking over the role.
Giannetti joined Hammerspace in January last year,...
Memory semiconductor supercycle set to run through 2028
Semiconductor industry watchers say the memory market has entered a prolonged upcycle, with DRAM and NAND likely to remain in short supply until at least 2028.
Historically, memory suppliers have...