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...
Greek satellite outfit Planetek picks Cubbit for sovereign storage
A Greek geospatial data company is storing its data on a Cubbit decentralized storage cloud for cash and sovereignty reasons.
Cubbit’s decentralized storage is a web of interconnected individual private...
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...
Cloudian launches HyperScale AI platform built on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
Cloudian has launched a HyperScale AI Data Platform (AIDP), with its HyperStore S3-compatible object storage being the datastore for AI models and agents running on Nvidia GPU hardware and...
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...
Storage news ticker – September 29
Data source connector builder Airbyte announced Airbyte Enterprise Flex, providing customers with data sovereignty and full control over their data, enabling accurate and secure data for AI and analytics....
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...