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,...
BMC Software enhances mainframe data storage and AI services
BMC Software has released data storage and AI productivity enhancements to its mainframe services.
The January 2025 update to the BMC AMI portfolio “breaks new ground” in enabling what is...
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...
AI data pipelines could use a hand from our features, says Komprise
Interview. AI training and inferencing needs access to datasets. The dataset contents will need to be turned into vector-embedded data for GenAI large language models (LLMs) to work on...
ExaGrid claims 4,590 customers as it points to growth
ExaGrid claims it is fielding "record bookings" and revenue – although as a privately held company it provides no comparative figures for this – for the final 2024 quarter, up 20...
Storage news ticker – January 6
Box CEO Aaron Levie posted a chart tracking historical storage costs on X/Twitter:
He said: "When we started Box, the hard drives in our servers were ~80 GB, and we...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage Ticker – December 16 2024
Seattle-based Amperity has launched a Customer Data Cloud – an AI-powered setup designed to help users transform raw customer data in a data warehouse into actionable business assets through...
N2WS enhances data protection for AWS and Azure users
N2WS has updated its cloud-native backup and disaster recovery (BDR) software to address the growing threats of ransomware and other attacks.
There are new features in the latest version of its...
Storage news roundup – December 13 2024
Aerospike unveiled the latest version of Aerospike Vector Search, featuring powerful new indexing and storage innovations that deliver real-time accuracy, scalability, and ease of use for developers. These advancements simplify...