Hammerspace claims tenfold revenue growth for 2024
Hammerspace has reported a tenfold increase in revenue from 2023 to 2024, showcasing the confidence behind its recent hiring of Jeff Gianetti as chief revenue officer. As a private...
NetApp touches down with the San Francisco 49ers
NetApp has become a founding level partner of the San Francisco 49ers professional football team in a multi-year deal and is now its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure Partner.
NetApp is...
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...
iXsystems says unified TrueNAS open storage software almost here
The latest version of the TrueNAS open source storage software from iXsystems will soon be available, according to the company’s latest update notes.
The release is called TrueNAS Fangtooth, and...
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,...
Coldago offers trio of file storage maps
File storage can be used in such different ways that research house that Coldago has produced three separate supplier rating reports.
It shows views of file storage suppliers through its...
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...
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...
Cloudian becomes a Hammerspace GDP storage citizen
Object storage supplier Cloudian is partnering unstructured data orchestrator Hammerspace by making its HyperStore object storage a repository used by Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform’s parallel NFS-based file system.
The Global...
Blackstone invests $300M in DDN to boost AI storage business
Private equity firm Blackstone is investing $300 million in privately held DDN, valuing the company at $5 billion and aiming to help develop its AI-related storage business.
According to DDN...