Interview. A meeting with new Nasuni CEO Sam King and field CTO John Capello naturally broached GenAI and agents. The discussion led to a Q&A, which provided insight into the cloud file services supplier’s AI roadmap. Both unstructured data vectorization and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support feature in this. Blocks & Files: AI workloads are […]| Blocks and Files
Decentralized storage and compute business Storj is being acquired by Inveniam Capital Partners, a data infrastructure company for private markets. Fintech Inveniam’s software enables real-time pricing of private market assets to help trading the assets in real estate, private equity, private credit, and infrastructure private markets. It’s a blockchain tech business which claims to have […]| Blocks and Files
The Dell AI Data Platform is getting an Elastic-powered Data Search Engine and a Data Analytics Engine built with Starburst, along with a Data Analytics Engine Agentic Layer and MCP Server, plus Nvidia cuVS integration. The AI Data Platform is a group of components in Dell’s AI Factory, providing the infrastructure part. It has four […]| Blocks and Files
Software-defined, high-performance all-flash storage company PEAK:AIO is adopting parallel NFS (pNFS) as it evolves from a single-node system into a scale-out product. CTO and founder Mark Klarzynski told us: “The big thing really is scaling out. And the bigger thing nowadays is that quest to replace Lustre. I don’t want to criticiz Lustre, but it’s getting […]| Blocks and Files
Arcitecta CEO and founder Jason Lohrey presented his thoughts on the company’s progress and future at an IT Press Tour event in New York this month. Australia-based Arcitecta’s Mediaflux distributed data management software supports file and object data storage with a single namespace and tiering capability covering the on-prem, public cloud, and hybrid environments, with […]| Blocks and Files
The first part of this interview looked at Quantum CEO Hugues Meyrath’s career and how it came about that he joined Quantum as its CEO. This next part looks at his views on the products and their prospects, quantum’s debt and the difference he can make. B&F: You’ve got the product lines, you’re in place, […]| Blocks and Files
CoreWeave’s AI Object Storage service shifts object data around the world at high speed, using Local Object Transport Accelerator (LOTA) technology, with no egress or request/transaction/tiering fees. It says high-performance AI training relies on large datasets located near GPU compute clusters, like the ones in its GPU server farms. CoreWeave reckons conventional cloud storage isn’t […]| Blocks and Files
Two years ago we reviewed VirtualZ with its Lozen IBM mainframe data access and PropelZ mainframe data extract products. Now it has two more, FlowZ and Zaac, and is talking about AI and mainframe data. It’s time for another look. Mainframes hold vast amounts of highly-valued data, some of which needs contributing to an organization’s […]| Blocks and Files
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Pure Storage knocked its revenue ball out of the quarterly results park, beating its guidance and upping its full year expectation. Revenues in its second fy2026 quarter, ended August 3, increased 13 percent year-on-year to $861 million with GAAP net income of $47 million, up 31 percent Y/Y. Product sales amounted to $446.3 million, up […]| Blocks and Files
NetApp eked out one percent growth in its first fy2026 quarter but it won the number one all-flash array market share position for calendar Q1 2025. Revenues in the quarter ended on July 25, 2025 were $1.56 billion, with a GAAP profit of $233 million, down 6 percent Y/Y. The revenue was above the mid-point […]| Blocks and Files
Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says most NoSQL databases scan every record for a query, even if most are irrelevant. Aerospike’s approach pushes conditional logic into the index itself, so only relevant […]| Blocks and Files
Research house GigaOm’s 2025 Object Storage Radar report identifies 22 suppliers, up from last year’s 18, with some dramatic changes in their status as the market shifts towards products with generic market appeal. Analyst Whit Walters says; “The key characteristics of enterprise object stores have changed, with more attention paid to performance, ease of deployment, […]| Blocks and Files
VAST Data is integrating Nvidia’s AI-Q AI agent building and connecting blueprints into its storage to help its customers enter the AI agent-building rat race. AI-Q is a blueprint or reference design plan for integrating Nvidia GPUs, partner storage platforms, and software and Agent Intelligence Toolkit when developing AI agents. It includes Nvidia’s Llama Nemotron […]| Blocks and Files
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