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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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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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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Summary: Identity Continuity: Powered by Rubrik’s acquisition of Strata.io, keeps authentication running automatically when the main IdP goes down Identity Roll Forward: An industry-first capability that recovers identity system to a clean, current state without weeks of manual re-provisioning Rubrik introduced two new Identity Resilience capabilities to expand its product suite.The first, Identity Continuity is […]

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Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, announced, Project Hourglass, an alliance with elite Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) to deliver Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropic’s Claude Code to their enterprise clients.GSI leaders, including Cognizant, Deloitte, L, HCLTech, NTT Data, and Wipro, are integrating Rubrik Agent Cloud (RAC) into their cybersecurity and digital transformation architectures. Project […]

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Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, announced the launch of season two of its award-winning documentary podcast, “To Catch a Thief: North Koreans On Our Payroll.”Based on exclusive reporting by Nicole Perlroth, bestselling author and former lead cybersecurity reporter for The New York Times, the series exposes a global labor pipeline infiltrated by North […]

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We had the opportunity to meet JuiceFS for the 2nd time during the recent 68th edition of The IT Press Tour held last week in Boston, MA.Joe Zhou, DevRel, JuiceFS (Juicedata), refreshed the group on file storage approach, very intersting as Amazon has added recently S#Files. Zhou positioned object storage as the de facto backend of […]

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We had the opportunity to meet Paradigm4 for the 1st time during the recent 68th edition of The IT Press Tour held last week in Boston, MA.Marilyn Matz, CEO, Paradigm4, introduced the company with Gary Planthaber, CTO, Andy Cosgrove, CRO, and David Freund, technical sales partner for flexFS. It worth noticing that the company has been co-founded […]

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Summary: Hosted by the Linux Foundation, OpenSharing is the next evolution of Delta Sharing, the most widely adopted open protocol for secure zero-copy data sharing, used by Amadeus, Atlassian, LSEG, SAP, Stripe, TheTradeDesk, and thousands of enterprises OpenSharing introduces the first open, vendor-neutral protocol for securely sharing AI assets, including Agent Skills, AI models, and […]

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Summary: Achieves orchestrated recovery for cloud applications with dependency mapping across data, configurations and code Delivers agentic-based recovery with Preemptive Recovery Engine Restores customers’  Minimum Viable Business (MVB) for cloud applications Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, unveiled Autonomous Business Recovery (ABR) for Cloud Applications, the agentic cyber resilience solution that recovers cloud applications […]

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Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, unveiled the next stage of Rubrik Annapurna, establishing the AI-ready unstructured data layer for enterprise Data Intelligence platforms of choice.Annapurna scans and catalogs unstructured data in place across distributed systems, publishes a queryable catalog into a lakehouse, and eliminates the data duplication and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) overhead […]

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Dell Technologies World 2026 took place in May in Las Vegas, NV, and it was the opportunity to hear all latest news and products developments plus key AI directions fueled by strategic partnerships. Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia, was again on stage with Michael Dell, CEO, Dell… Below is a selection of key announcements made during […]

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We had the opportunity to meet ExaGrid for the 4th time during the recent 68th edition of The IT Press Tour held last week in Boston, MA.Bill Andrews, CEO, ExaGrid, introduced the company as the largest independent vendor focused 100% on backup storage, shipping for over 18 years with a customer base exceeding 5,200 organizations across […]

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We had the opportunity to meet IO River for the 1st time during the recent 68th edition of The IT Press Tour held last week in Boston, MA.IO River, founded in 2022 by CEO Edward Tsinovoi and CTO Michael Hakimi, both veterans of Akamai’s core platform where they led edge compute development, is backed by S […]

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