The 68th edition of The IT Press Tour took place in Boston, MA, last week, right before the Soccer/Football World Cup.Designed as a press-focused event, it brings together media representatives and a diverse range of enterprises and organizations for in-depth conversations spanning IT infrastructure, cloud computing, networking, cybersecurity, data management and storage, big data and […]

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StorONE, a player in Real-Time tiering architecture, announced record first-quarter results for its fiscal quarter ending April 30, with Q1 bookings and revenue surpassing the company’s entire 2025 results, driven by rapidly accelerating enterprise demand for StorONE’s Real-Time tiering technology. StorONE’s RTT (Real-Time tiering) technology enables organizations to achieve up to 9x more effective use […]

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Vast Data, the AI Operating System company, announced that Megaport, a player in Network and Compute as a Service, has selected the Vast AI operating system to support the next phase of its global automated infrastructure platform.As Megaport extends beyond automated connectivity into integrated compute and GPU services following its acquisition of Latitude.sh, Vast will […]

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VergeIO, a private cloud operating system company, announced Verge CLI, a complete command-line interface for VergeOS that turns a leading VMware alternative into an AI-powered platform. Alongside the CLI, VergeIO is releasing an MCP server built on the open Model Context Protocol and a set of agent skills. Together they let agentic AI platforms, including […]

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DataCore, a data infrastructure and management company, announced the launch of its “Buy with Confidence” program, designed to protect how enterprise storage solutions are delivered as pricing volatility and supply constraints continue to impact global IT hardware markets.By combining fixed pricing with secured hardware allocations – enabled through strategic OEM partnerships – DataCore provides customers […]

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ThinkParQ, the company behind BeeGFS, announced the launch of BeeOND Enterprise (BeeGFS On Demand), a standalone subscription-based edition that gives AI and HPC teams the complete on-demand storage pipeline: local NVMe across compute nodes dynamically pooled into a high-performance scratch file system, spun up ins at job start and torn down at job end, plus […]

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Summary: Databricks today launched LTAP (Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing), a new data processing architecture that unifies OLAP and OLTP on a single copy of data in the lake, eliminating ETL, replicas, and pipelines by design Lakebase, the foundation of the LTAP architecture, now serves thousands of customers and handles 12 million database launches per day across […]

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Summary: Genie One helps business teams like marketing, finance, sales, and more automate and orchestrate their work grounded in real business data Genie is powered by new Genie Ontology, a live context layer that continuously learns your business from internal and external data, AI tools, and popular workplace apps, delivering more accurate answers, faster, at lower […]

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Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, announced the expansion of its European leadership team with the appointment of Ewen Smith as Managing Director of Arcitecta Europe and Nina Mangold to lead its European channel program. “I’m delighted to welcome Ewen and Nina as we continue investing in our European expansion,” said Jason […]

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Scott Tease recently announced on LinkedIn his departure from Lenovo after almost 12 years at various executives positions. He took 3 months following Lenovo and joined AMD in June 2026 as corporate VP, HPC and sovereign AI business development. Before he spent more than 12 years at IBM, explaining his move to Lenovo.

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Jeffrey Giannetti recently announced on LinkedIn that he has joined Pure Storage, sorry Everpure, to lead AI Sales in the United States. Before he spent time at Hammerspace, Weka, Cleversafe, Veeam, NetApp and security companies like Deep Instinct or Forcepoint but never more than 2.5 years except at Cleversafe and NetApp.

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SpaceX‘s $60 Billion Bet on Cursor: AI Coding Goes Vertical.SpaceX is acquiring Cursor, the world’s fastest-growing software startup, for $60B in an all-stock deal, making a bold move beyond rockets, satellites, and AI models. According to a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has […]

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Folio Photonics (Folio), a company that develops and sells archival data storage products based on multi-layer nanophotonic media, has closed an $8 million Series A financing round, accelerating the company’s  transition from technology development into productization and active commercial engagement with major hyperscalers.The financing positions Folio to capture near-term opportunities in the growing archival storage […]

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The O.H.I.O. Fund, a private fund investment adviser focused on generating strong returns for its investors while increasing Ohio’s economic growth and momentum, announced its investment in Folio Photonics, a data storage disc manufacturer located in Solon, Ohio.Folio has developed what it describes as the first-ever enterprise-scale, immutable active data archive solution that delivers breakthrough […]

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We had the opportunity to meet Vinchin for the 1st time during the recent 68th edition of The IT Press Tour held last week in Boston, MA.Chengdu-based Vinchin Technology presented its data protection and disaster recovery platform with Sales Director Minnie Du and Overseas Technical Director Neil Zhuo. Founded in 2015, with a few hundreds employees (around 50% […]

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We had the opportunity to meet Wave Domain for the 1st time during the recent 68th edition of The IT Press Tour held last week in Boston, MA.When StorageNewsletter first covered Wave Domain in July 2023, the New Jersey-based outfit had just signed with open-innovation firm yet2 to license its WORF (Write Once, Read Forever) permanent digital archiving […]

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Summary: Databricks launches CustomerLake, an agentic CDP built natively on Databricks that unifies customer data, AI models, agents, identity resolution, audience building, and activation — bringing agentic marketing to the open lakehouse CustomerLake replaces one-off campaigns with “infinity campaigns,” continuous agentic loops that react to customer context in real time, enabling enterprises to deliver 1:1 […]

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Summary: Panther, a leading AI SOC platform, accelerates Databricks’ security offering, helping customers unify data sources, detect threats, and investigate alerts with swarms of agents Acquisition supports Databricks’ push to replace legacy SIEMs by operationalizing agentic detection and response on top of a unified security lakehouse Panther product features 100+ out-of-the-box data integrations, detection-as-code capabilities, […]

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Summary: Databricks launches Lakehouse//RT, the real-time Lakehouse powered by Reyden, a new compute engine that delivers millisecond query latency at tens of thousands of concurrent users and agents, directly on governed Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg tables With Lakehouse//RT, customers have seen up to 16x better performance than existing real-time serving stacks, with response times […]

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