Pure Storage has come a long way since it presented the world with its FlashArrays back in 2011. It’s expanded its all-flash storage portfolio with FlashBlade, Evergreen Storage for non-disruptive upgrades, developed cloud-native solutions like Portworx and Pure Fusion for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and introduced Pure1 for AI-driven management. And of course it IPO’d […]

It wasn’t a basket case, Quantum, far from it, but it was certainly struggling on the edge, and had been for a few years when a boardroom shake-up toppled chairman, president, and CEO Jamie Lerner and installed board director Hugues Meyrath in his place as CEO. Meyrath’s CV has a lot of entries: He moved […]

Ataccama has announced Data Quality Gates, an extension of its data quality suite that validates data in motion across the data stack. The new capability applies rules in real time, intercepting unfit inputs before they distort analytics, compromise compliance reporting, or degrade AI models. By running checks in real time as data flows through pipelines, it […]

HYCU has had its status for data protection in hybrid clouds raised from Challenger to Leader by GigaOm in its 2025 Cloud Data Protection (CDP) Radar report, as presented to an IT Press Tour audience. The CDP report covers 23 suppliers and the bulk of them,15 and all the Leaders, are grouped in the lower […]

The Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team (AMF1) has completed its migration to run 100 percent of its data storage on NetApp. NetApp’s systems are used by the AMF1 team for AI-powered design, simulation, and race-day strategy. They support telemetry analysis, help optimize race strategies, and improve car performance on and off the track. This […]

Object First, the Veeam-only backup target startup, has announced a smaller Ootbi Mini model and added a malware-attracting Honeypot feature plus central fleet management for all of a customer’s Ootbi appliances. The company was established in 2022 by Veeam founders Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov to provide an S3-based Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box Immutability) backup appliance. It […]

SK hynix’s announcement of its 321-layer 3D NAND in QLC format has raised questions about Solidigm’s role in the organization. Solidigm was a pioneer in high-capacity SSDs for enterprise use with its 61.44 TB QLC drive in July 2023 and a 122 TB drive in November 2024, both of which used 192-layer QLC 3D NAND. This […]

Interview: An interview with Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo started by discussing AIOps and its Enterprise Data Cloud’s control plane and finished with the concept of Pure as a dataset management company. It is developing a full stack of dataset management features and function layered on top of its storage arrays and their software. Part […]

We had the opportunity to interview Jason hardy, Hitachi Vantara’s CTO for AI, and the conversation started by looking at VSP One and disaggregation and ended up talking about AI agent-infused robots. Physical AI. Read on to see how we got there. Blocks and Files: Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One storage line is a classic controllers-integrated-with-storage-shelves […]

Deduplicating backup target appliance supplier ExaGrid has passed 4,800 customers and says it’s the largest independent backup storage provider behind the big primary storage vendors, meaning Dell, HPE, NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, Huawei, and IBM. ExaGrid’s appliances are disk drive-based and ingest backup data into a so-called landing zone where it is kept in a raw […]

Restructuring Quantum Corp has hired Geoff Barrall away from Index Engines to be its Chief Product officer, a new position, to lead product strategy, innovation, and engineering direction. The company is now in a more stable position, following its debt restructuring and exec team refreshment. It’s also changed its external auditors, following a stream of […]

Veeam, the world’s largest data protection and cyber-resilience supplier, could be buying Securiti for around $1.8 billion, Bloomberg reports.  Securiti was started up in 2017, is based in San Jose, and operates in the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) space with offerings encompassing data discovery, security, governance, and compliance. It aims to help organizations adopting […]

Opinion: Any organization that has not been hit by ransomware thinks, by default, that its defenses are good. If internal voices are raised, saying it needs to upgrade its defenses, supporters balk at the costs involved and assume that, since we haven’t been hit yet, we must be OK. They realize that many other organizations […]

NAKIVO has announced v11.1 of its Backup & Replication software and so we thought it would be. a good time to take a look at the company. It was started up in 2012 in the USA by CEO Bruce Talley and six others: VP Product Management Sergei Serdyuk, QA engineer and product manager Veniamin Simonov, […]

UK-based AI data storage firm PEAK:AIO has secured more than $6.8 million in seed funding to accelerate product development, expand its team, and forge partnerships for global growth. The software-defined all-flash storage company was founded in 2021. In March, it announced a 2RU DataServer, a pNFS NAS system based on a Dell server with Solidigm […]

Cloud storage supplier Wasabi has raised $32.5 million and set up AI data storage facilities with export to external GPU compute. Wasabi Technologies started out providing S3-compatible public cloud object storage as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service supplier (IaaS). Now it has file (NAS), video surveillance and video media storage offers. Basically, it resells disk drive space for […]

Graph database supplier Neo4j is offering its Aura Agent to help customers build and deploy agents on their own data in minutes, an MCP Server to add graph-powered memory and reasoning into existing AI applications, and a $100 million investment in GenAI-native startups to increase its technology’s take-up. Up until now, the main data source […]

Data protector Acronis announced GA of True Image 2026 with built-in patch management for Windows and a strengthened security engine with AI-based threat detection, anti-ransomware, and malware scanning. Acronis claims it is the first consumer software to proactively safeguard against emerging cyberthreats and provide identity protection, fast backup, easy recovery, and advanced cyber protection in […]

Commvault’s AWS cloud-app-protecting subsidiary Clumio is protecting Iceberg data in AWS while MinIO is adding Iceberg table support to its AIStor object storage software. Open source Apache Iceberg operates as a data lakehouse software layer above storage systems like Parquet, ORC, and Avro, and cloud object stores such as AWS S3, Azure Blob, and Google […]