How legacy storage infrastructure could endanger your future
SPONSORED FEATURE: There can’t be many tech leaders who don’t realize that AI relies on vast amounts of data.Yet it’s not always clear that everyone has grasped just how...
New year, new data strategy
COMMISSIONED: The new year has arrived, bringing with it the usual resolutions: get fitter, read more books, maybe finally tackle that ever-growing email backlog.But for tech leaders, this time...
Hammerspace gets WEKA’s ex-CRO as its sales boss
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has orchestrated its first Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Giannetti, who abruptly left the CRO spot at WEKA last month.
Hammerspace sells Global Data Platform software based on...
Storage news ticker – January 24
Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry pipeline and intelligent observability, processing up to 1 TB/month...
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...
GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event,...
How enterprise AI can ease the data gravity burden
COMMISSIONED: Among the many tough decisions IT leaders face is where to best host AI workloads.
Whether you’re deploying traditional AI applications that predict supply chain performance or launching generative...
MariaDB adds vector search in Gen AI DB push
The open-source MariaDB database now has a vector search capability, allowing customers' businesses to access a single, complete database supporting transactional, analytical, semi-structured, and now artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The...
Cirrus Data extends block data moves with Red Hat integration
Block data mobility specialist Cirrus Data Solutions has forged a Red Hat integration that should help users improve the migration of workloads. Its Cirrus Migrate Cloud is now working...
AI data companies dominate new unicorn list from BestBrokers
Companies built around AI data systems dominate entrants to the latest unicorn list compiled by broking comparison site BestBrokers, with Databricks and WEKA mentioned.
Unicorns are defined as privately owned...
Informatica deepens Databricks dealings
Data integration and management supplier Informatica has strengthened the integration of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, including support for AI Functions.
Databricks supplies an...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...