Backblaze partners with Opti9 to launch Canadian datacenter region
Cloud storage player Backblaze is spreading the reach of managed hybrid cloud solutions firm Opti9 through a new partnership. As part of the alliance, Backblaze will open a new...
Syniti CEO discusses company’s evolution and Capgemini acquisition
Profile. Blocks & Files spoke to Syniti CEO Kevin Campbell about his time with the company, how it has developed, and where it might be headed.
Massachusetts-based Syniti was founded...
Storj names new CEO to continue distributed storage mission
Distributed cloud storage firm Storj has a new CEO. Colby Winegar has been promoted to the role after previously serving as chief revenue officer.
Prior to Storj, Winegar co-founded and...
Demand for data security in cloud boosts Commvault’s top line
Commvault beat last quarter’s revenue outlook as its data security, subscription-focused business grew faster than anticipated.
Revenues in its second quarter of fiscal 2025 - ended September 30 - were...
Paradigm4’s flexFS puts fast file front end on cloud object storage
Object storage is ill-suited to supporting AI, ML, and HPC workloads because it can't pump data fast enough to the many processors involved. File systems can do that but...
What’s behind YanRong’s MLPerf benchmark? Parallel file system software, GPUDirect, and PCIe 5 SSDs
Chinese server and storage supplier YanRong Technologies suddenly showed up on many radars when it appeared in the MLPerf v1 storage benchmark results with a high score a few...
Storage news ticker – October 28
Airbyte announced a new connector to Databricks' Delta Lake that replicates data from any source. Airbyte says it enables organizations to replicate data into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform...
Hammerspace, CTERA and NetApp are ‘leaders’ in cloud-native file systems, says GigaOm
NetApp, CTERA, and Hammerspace are the leaders in the cloud-native globally distributed file system market, according to analyst GigaOm's first report on the industry segment.
In previous years, it has...
Seagate revenues soar on strong high-capacity drive demand
Seagate’s disk drive slump is over with a revenue rise due to US cloud providers buying more mass-capacity drives, and more to come from enterprises.
Revenues jumped 49 percent...
Dell enhances high end PowerMax array
Dell has updated its PowerMax high-end arrays with more performance, management efficiencies, data protection, cyber-resilience, on-premises/public cloud data mobility, and a subscription business model.
PowerMax is a high-end, high-availability, enterprise...
Startup provides AI data as a service from its own abstracted metadata
Startup View has built what it says is a fast-to-deploy AI stack starting with semantic cells in multi-type data sources, a Universal Data Representation (UDR), its own object storage,...
Storage news ticker – 17 October 2024
Governance and data quality consultant Agile Lab ran a data management survey at Big Data London in September 2024. It revealed the majority of UK organizations are being held back by...