NetApp disaggregates ONTAP storage and provides an AI Data Engine
New all-flash NetApp AFX arrays separately scale storage and compute while an AI Data Engine pre-processes ONTAP data for AI LLM and agent use, and customers get a NetApp...
VirtualZ offers halfway house for mainframe workloads eyeing public cloud
AWS and the other top CSPs would like to migrate mainframe applications to their public clouds but many of these incredibly sticky apps tend to stay where they are....
Storage news ticker – October 10
Ataccama has announced Data Quality Gates, an extension of its data quality suite that validates data in motion across the data stack. The new capability applies rules in real...
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...
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...
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...
Infinidat doubles InfiniBox capacity with G4 refresh
Infinidat has refreshed its fourth-generation (G4) InfiniBox arrays with larger drives, more slots, faster internal networking, a smaller all-flash model, S3 protocol support, QLC flash, and a new capacity-upgrade...
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...
Pure’s control plane gets more intelligent, more secure
Control plane enhancements for Pure Storage arrays and software stack are enabling customer admins to manage and secure fleets of Pure arrays and cloud instances, and their workloads more...