Rocketship Rubrik’s revenues roar robustly to record

Chris Mellor -
Security-focussed data protector Rubrik saw revenues rocket upwards as it landed new customers, expanded sales to existing ones and recast…
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HPE networking shines while servers dim and Alletra glistens

Chris Mellor -
HPE revenues rose in its final fy2025 quarter, with a Juniper-inspired leap in networking revenues, but server revenues declined despite…

Storage news ticker - 4 December 2025

Chris Mellor -
Filmmaker Joseph DiGiovanna (covered by CNN, Live With Kelly and Mark, and more) has been capturing 1 frame every 30…

How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own

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Hammerspace maximizes your GPU usage using your existing NVMe storage As AI computing expands across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, infrastructure…

Micron makes Crucial decision: Farewell

Chris Mellor -
So long and thanks for all the flash. Micron is walking away from its Crucial-branded consumer SSD business to concentrate…

Snowflake leans into Claude with $200M Anthropic spend as growth holds

Chris Mellor -
Snowflake has posted another quarter of strong growth, expanding its AI ambitions with a $200 million deal to bring Anthropic’s…

AWS piles on S3 upgrades from vector search to 50 TB objects

Chris Mellor -
AWS has boosted its S3 offerings with support for larger, faster-accessed, and more AI data sources, including NetApp, and has…

HPE adds all-flash 7700 and high-end 5720 to StoreOnce backup line

Chris Mellor -
HPE has refreshed its StoreOnce line of backup target appliances and strengthened support for Morpheus mission-critical virtual machines. It introduced…

Pure Storage hikes full-year forecast after solid Q3

Chris Mellor -
Pure Storage has increased its full-year forecast after beating its Q3 FY 2026 revenue guidance. Revenues for the quarter ended…

Databricks looking to raise another $5 billion

Chris Mellor -
Data lakehouse business Databricks is said to be in talks to raise $5 billion, just three months after closing a…

Gartner's storage sermon for 2026 - 2029

Chris Mellor -
Enterprise storage planners and buyers must adopt cyber-storage, autonomous storage and manage by SLA outcomes  So says Gartner’s 2026 Strategic…

Kioxia AiSAQ puts vector search on SSDs to skip model retraining

Chris Mellor -
Kioxia AiSAQ software enables fast AI recognition of new product images without retraining a foundation model for every new product.…

HPE Storage in 2025: Alletra rises

Chris Mellor -
HPE doubled down on its Alletra storage products in 2025, and focussed in selling its own storage software rather than…

VAST Data says AI needs a new kind of parallel file system

Chris Mellor -
Interview. Our article attempting to explain parallel file systems prompted Jan Heichler, Director of AI/HPC PreSales EMEA at VAST Data, to…

New Atempo owners bet big on Miria as large-scale data movement engine

Chris Mellor -
The new owners of Atempo say the company will focus on massive data set movement. Atempo has been bought by…

Pinecone rolls out dedicated read nodes to boost vector search performance

Chris Mellor -
Pinecone says its dedicated read nodes offer predictable performance and cost for billion vector-scale searches. The company supplies a serverless…

Review: Lenovo in 2025

Chris Mellor -
Lenovo bought its way into the PC and x86 server businesses by buying IBM’s PC business in 2005 and x86…

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