Qumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge.
Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its...
Panzura’s upgraded software has halfway-house high availability and faster remote office data access
Just two months after Panzura released v8.4 of its CloudFS core technology, it has pumped out v8.5, claiming it delivers instant recovery and “unparalleled resilience.”
CloudFS is the underlying global...
Flash-centric Regatta OLxP database working on faster access for AI agents
Israeli startup Regatta is building a scale-out, transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP) relational database (OLxP) with extensibility to semi-structured and unstructured data. The company says it is a drop-in replacement...
Very large AI model training uses object storage
HPC expert Glenn Lockwood says that the largest AI language models are being trained with object storage, not file storage.
AI model training needs unstructured data. Most unstructured data is...
Storage news ticker – February 3
The UK-based part of Rubrik Backup-as-a-Service supplier ADP (Assured Data Protection) is partnering cyber-security, comms and tech MSP Wavenet – the UK's largest independent IT MSP – to provide...
AWS: S3 Metadata goes GA stateside to speed analytics
Amazon Web Services has made Amazon S3 Metadata generally available following its introduction in preview at the company’s re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas.
Amazon describes S3 Metadata as the...
Scality launches pay-as-you-go ARTESCA storage for Veeam Backup
Scality has an all-new pay-as-you-go licensing program featuring ARTESCA as a software storage backup target for Veeam Backup-as-a-Service offerings. It’s aimed at Scality Cloud & Service Providers (SCSP), meaning...
Object First’s business is scaling up
Object First, the Veeam-specific object-based backup appliance startup, says it registered 389 percent bookings growth in 2024 along with a 374 percent increase in transacting partners.
The company was started...
RiverMeadow flows on-premises Pure Storage workloads to the cloud
Workload and data mobility player RiverMeadow has upgraded its platform to help extend Pure Storage's on-premises Evergreen storage-as-a-service to the cloud.
RiverMeadow says it offers its Workload Mobility Platform and...
Pinecone launches AI agent-building API to simplify RAG development
Vector database startup Pinecone has launched Pinecone Assistant, an AI agent-building API service to speed RAG development.
Large and small generative AI language models (LLMs) generate their responses by looking...
Italian healthcare provider picks Cubbit for S3 backup
Italian healthcare organization ASL CN1 Cuneo has begun using DS3 geo-distributed storage from Cubbit for its S3 backup, saying this has helped with compliance issues and cut costs.
DS3 Composer...
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...