Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Keepit answers SaaS app backup scheme questions
How is self-hosted SaaS backup service business Keepit going to back up hundreds of different SaaS apps by 2028, starting from just seven this year?
We asked its CTO, Jakob...
Cohesity goes Googlewards with Gaia, Gemini and Mandiant
Data protector Cohesity is integrating its Gaia GenAI search assistant with Google’s Gemini AI model and its Agentspace, using Google Threat Intelligence and working with Mandiant on incident response...
Snowflake tethers itself to Iceberg
Cloud data warehouser Snowflake is supporting the Apache Iceberg open table format alongside its own native data table formats.
Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale datasets in...
Google Cloud’s NetApp Volumes will link to Vertex AI
Google Cloud and NetApp are extending the NetApp Volumes storage service to work better with Vertex AI, support larger data sets, separately scale capacity and performance, and meet regional...
Google Cloud offering managed Lustre service with DDN
DDN is partnering Google Cloud with its Google Cloud Managed Lustre, powered by DDN offering.
The Lustre parallel file system enables Google Cloud to offer file storage and fast access...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Qumulo cranks up AI-powered NeuralCache
Qumulo has added a performance-enhancing NeuralCache predictive caching feature to its Cloud Data Fabric.
The Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) was launched in February and has a central file and object...
Starburst CEO: In AI, it’s data access that wins
Interview: Startup Starburst develops and uses Trino open source distributed SQL to query and analyze distributed data sources. We spoke to CEO Justin Borgman about the company's strategy.
A little...
Storage winners and losers in Trump’s tariff-happy world
Analysis Trump’s tariffs will affect US companies with multinational supply chain components and finished products imported to America, and products from foreign suppliers imported to the US. They will...
Pure Storage scores flashy Meta deal
Analysis: Pure Storage has won a deal to supply its proprietary flash drive technology to Meta, with Wedbush financial analysts seeing this as “an extremely positive outcome for PSTG...
Auwau lifts lid on multi-tenant BaaS provisioning and billing
Auwau provisions multi-tenant backup services for MSPs and departmental enterprise with automated billing and stats.
It is a tiny Danish firm, just three people, with a mature Cloutility software stack...