Storage news ticker – August 11
Airbyte has made available connectors for the Pinecone and Chroma vector databases as the destination for moving data from hundreds of data sources, which then can be accessed by...
When hyperscalers catch a cold, Quantum sneezes
Storage supplier Quantum has encountered significant challenges due to a decrease in device and media sales, and reduced spending by hyperscale customers.
In the first fiscal quarter of 2024 ending...
WANdisco wants CEO and CFO bonuses back
The board of WANdisco has approached its former CEO and CFO requesting repayment of performance bonuses.A WANdisco spokesperson told B&F: “In line with shareholder sentiment, and as simply the...
Chucking it in: Co-COO Whitten quits Dell
Dell’s co-COO, Chuck Whitten, has resigned just two years after joining Dell, following board-level discussions.
Anthony Charles “Chuck” Whitten joined Dell in August 2021 after spending 23 years and two...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
DDN says generative AI/ML work needs balanced read/write IO mix
Analysis: DDN says storage for generative AI and other AI work needs a balance of read and write speed, claiming its own storage provides the best balance because of...
Egnyte rolls out chatbot AI concierge
File collaborator Egnyte has added a generative AI chatbot to its platform to summarize docs and create audio/video transcripts.
Generative AI uses large language models (LLMs) to receive human input...
VAST Data wins TACC supercomputer storage contract
VAST Data has secured a contract from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) for its single-tier, NFS-based flash storage system, edging out traditional disk-based HPC parallel filesystems such as...
Market optimism grows among some storage VARs
A report tracking enterprise VARs (value-added resellers) by analyst William Blair provides insights into the current state of the enterprise IT infrastructure market and the prospects and challenges for...
DLP could not prevent Fortra, MOVEit breaches
Data loss prevention (DLP) measures are supposed to prevent data loss yet they did nothing to stop the large scale file exfiltration caused by malware that disrupted the widely...
Storage news roundup – July 21
Managed infrastructure systems provider 11:11 Systems has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) and will offer customers 11:11 Cloud Backup for Veeam Cloud Connect, 11:11 Cloud Backup for Microsoft...
Quobyte is cool – liquid nitrogen cool
Case study. Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) researchers in Portland are using cryogenically cooled electron microscopes to build 3D images of biological molecules as they investigate how proteins...