Introducing Lenovo’s DE6600 series: storage made smarter

Steve Eiland, product manager storage, Lenovo -
Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600 Looking for storage that keeps up with your most demanding workloads?…
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The storage integration problem that breaks infrastructure automation

VergeIO -
Why mess with APIs when you can integrate more fundamentally? Infrastructure teams adopt automation tools expecting to eliminate manual processes…

Storage news ticker – December 18

Chris Mellor -
DNA storage startup Atlas Data Storage CEO Varun Mehta has written a blog, "Woolly Mammoth DNA Can Last 1.2 M…

Lightbits scales virtual SANs past 100 PB

Chris Mellor -
Virtual SAN provider Lightbits has an intelligent control plane to manage clusters of its block storage software instances federated together…

Micron rides HBM surge to record quarter

Chris Mellor -
Surging demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in AI servers pushed Micron to new quarterly heights. Revenues in the quarter ended…

Seeing the light: Ewigbyte’s optical archive storage technology and strategy

Chris Mellor -
Fresh startup Ewigbyte’s optical archive storage technology and business model has some similarities with, but differs from, that of Cerabyte…

JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

Chris Mellor -
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is developing a way to increase overall high bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity with longer…

Databricks valued at $138B after $4B funding round

Chris Mellor -
Databricks has raised more than $4 billion in an L round of venture funding, valuing the data warehousing and analytics…

Cohesity deepens Google Cloud tie-up for AI and cyber-resilience

Chris Mellor -
Cohesity is strengthening its partnership with Google Cloud, expanding its data protection portfolio, widening its AI capabilities, and adding new…

IDrive marches into Salesforce backup arena

Chris Mellor -
IDrive has a Salesforce Backup offering safeguarding customer data and metadata in their Salesforce accounts.. The company claims it is…

Pure Storage and Hitachi Vantara lead GigaOm's Primary Storage Radar rankings

Chris Mellor -
GigaOm’s latest Primary Storage Radar has 10 leaders amongst the 19 suppliers, with Pure Storage and Hitachi Vantara closest to…

Quobyte brings GPU-converged storage to AI clusters

Chris Mellor -
Quobyte has introduced GPU-converged storage to bring data in its parallel file system and object storage software closer to GPUs,…

Data warehousing in the AI era starts with sovereignty

Doug Flora, VP of product marketing at EDB -
The question isn't on-prem or cloud. It's control without cost, scale, or innovation trade-offs Enterprises are hitting a familiar inflection…

Nutanix provides tranche of sovereign cloud updates across its software portfolio

Chris Mellor -
Nutanix has announced a Distributed Sovereign Cloud (DSC) offering adding more secure operations and management to multi-cloud environments. It says…

Optical upstarts chase century-long archive storage

Chris Mellor -
Five optical storage startups aim to provide long-term and energy-efficient archive technology: Cerabyte, Ewigbyte, HoloMem, Optera, and SPhotonix. They are…

IDC storage tracker shows Pure and Huawei growing fastest

Chris Mellor -
Third 2025 quarter storage revenues grew - due to mid-range all-flash array sales IDC published its external OEM Enterprise Storage…

Cohesity braces for rogue AI agents with identity and recovery controls

Chris Mellor -
Misbehaving and malicious autonomous AI agents could wreak havoc as they rampage through a data estate, unless they are controlled…

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