Hitachi Vantara and physical AI
We had the opportunity to interview Jason hardy, Hitachi Vantara’s CTO for AI, and the conversation started by looking at VSP One and disaggregation and ended up talking about...
Quantum hires new Chief Product officer from Index Engines
Restructuring Quantum Corp has hired Geoff Barrall away from Index Engines to be its Chief Product officer, a new position, to lead product strategy, innovation, and engineering direction.
The company...
Veeam could buy Securiti
Veeam, the world’s largest data protection and cyber-resilience supplier, could be buying Securiti for around $1.8 billion, Bloomberg reports.
Securiti was started up in 2017, is based in San Jose,...
NAKIVO and its latest Backup & Replication software
NAKIVO has announced v11.1 of its Backup & Replication software and so we thought it would be. a good time to take a look at the company.
It was started...
PEAK:AIO banks $6.8M to scale out AI storage platform
UK-based AI data storage firm PEAK:AIO has secured more than $6.8 million in seed funding to accelerate product development, expand its team, and forge partnerships for global growth.
The software-defined...
Wasabi secures $32.5M to fuel AI storage push
Cloud storage supplier Wasabi has raised $32.5 million and set up AI data storage facilities with export to external GPU compute.
Wasabi Technologies started out providing S3-compatible public cloud object...
Neo4j bids to take graph technology into AI’s mainstream
Graph database supplier Neo4j is offering its Aura Agent to help customers build and deploy agents on their own data in minutes, an MCP Server to add graph-powered memory...
Storage news ticker – October 3
Data protector Acronis announced GA of True Image 2026 with built-in patch management for Windows and a strengthened security engine with AI-based threat detection, anti-ransomware, and malware scanning. Acronis...
Storage news ticker – October 1
BestBrokers has collated data from Pitchbook, Crunchbase and more, and provided a table of the biggest funding rounds in AI in September 2025:
Anthropic – $13 billion, $183 billion valuation
Databricks...
SingleStore wants to be ChatGPT for data and AI apps
SingleStore is updating its unified database to handle natural language queries by converting them into SQL – and it’s building its own AI assistant to boot.
SingleStore provides the real-time...
Cloudian launches HyperScale AI platform built on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
Cloudian has launched a HyperScale AI Data Platform (AIDP), with its HyperStore S3-compatible object storage being the datastore for AI models and agents running on Nvidia GPU hardware and...
VirtualZ and x86 server/public cloud mainframe bridging software
Two years ago we reviewed VirtualZ with its Lozen IBM mainframe data access and PropelZ mainframe data extract products. Now it has two more, FlowZ and Zaac, and is...