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, and Infinidat.
The company is also announcing PowerStore enhancements at...
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 the AI agent-building rat race.
AI-Q is a blueprint or...
Cohesity wants AI to see everything – live, backed-up, and buried
Analysis. Cohesity is moving beyond data protection and cyber-resilience by building a real-time data access and management facility alongside its existing data protection access pipelines so that it can...
Newcomer Arcfra lands spot in Gartner’s HCI vendor lineup
Singapore-based startup Arcfra has entered the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and been named in Gartner’s latest Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software less than a year after launch.
CEO Wenhao...
NetApp and Intel’s AIPod Mini for departmental inferencing
NetApp has added a lower cost AIPod Mini to its AIPod line of ONTAP AI systems, which provide a compute and storage foundation for departmental and team-level enerative AI...
NetApp trims workforce amid mixed market signals
NetApp is laying off staff as it reorganizes to cope with a changed commercial environment.
A company statement said: “NetApp is implementing a strategic organizational realignment to better position the...
Varonis and Pure Storage team up on security system
Cybersecurity supplier Varonis Systems is partnering with Pure Storage to provide a data security and cyber resilience system to prevent breaches and deliver rapid recovery if disaster strikes.
Varonis competes...
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 as an all-flash storage array (AFA) vendor, surviving and prospering...
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 Veeam Data Platform.
Veeam now describes its backup 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, founded in 2018, was financed by founder and CEO David...
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 deployments and smaller workloads.
The FlashArray//C series uses Pure’s proprietary...
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...