Datafy targets EBS cost optimization with automated rightsizing engine
Datafy.io is a FinOps startup focused on cutting Elastic Block Storage (EBS) costs with roots in all-flash startup E8 Storage.
Tel Aviv-based Datafy.io was founded by CEO Zivan Ori, COO...
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...
NetApp offloads Spot, Cloudcheckr to Flexera
NetApp is selling its Spot and CloudCheckr CloudOps portfolios to FinOps business Flexera for a reported $100 million.
Spot provides ways to find and use the lowest cost public cloud...
Informatica deepens Databricks dealings
Data integration and management supplier Informatica has strengthened the integration of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, including support for AI Functions.
Databricks supplies an...
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...
Commvault delivers forest-level Active Directory recovery
The Commvault Cloud Platform (formerly known as Metallic) is now automating protection for Active Directory at forest level.
Active Directory (AD) is a user authentication service in the Microsoft Windows...
BMC modernizes mainframe storage with cloud-first solutions
The new Cloud Data Sets feature in BMC Software’s AMI Cloud Data platform “transforms” mainframe data management by providing direct access to cloud object storage, without requiring modifications to...
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...
Pure Storage qualifies Micron’s 276-layer flash
Pure Storage has expanded its strategic collaboration with Micron to include Micron G9 QLC NAND for future DirectFlash Module (DFM) products.
Pure’s flash storage arrays use DFMs as solid-state storage...
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 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...