IBM has a THINK, boards the agentic enterprise AI train
IBM is giving its customers a tidal wave of watsonx AI news at its THINK 2025 conference, saying that AI agents are shifting from AI that chats with you...
Diskover’s upstream pipelining
Data management business Diskover was described in part one of a look at the company. In this second part we look at how its technology works and what sets...
Storage news ticker – April 24
AWS has lowered the price of its fast S3 Express One Zone object storage service, affecting storage, reads, writes, data uploads, and retrieval per byte with reads seeing the...
Discovering Diskover’s data management discipline
US startup Diskover is a top-down open source metadata management software company with relatively few but significant customers in Media, EDA, Energy, and Life Science, and appears to have...
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...
InfluxData rolls out InfluxDB 3 to power real-time apps at scale
InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions in a bid to speed and simplify time series data processing.
InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source, high-speed, recent-data engine...
NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner
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NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner.
The NFL is a trade association and sports league consisting of 32...
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...
Snowflake tethers itself to Iceberg
Cloud data warehouser Snowflake is supporting the Apache Iceberg open table format alongside its own native data table formats.
Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale datasets in...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Starburst CEO: In AI, it’s data access that wins
Interview: Startup Starburst develops and uses Trino open source distributed SQL to query and analyze distributed data sources. We spoke to CEO Justin Borgman about the company's strategy.
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Storage winners and losers in Trump’s tariff-happy world
Analysis Trump’s tariffs will affect US companies with multinational supply chain components and finished products imported to America, and products from foreign suppliers imported to the US. They will...