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 […]| Blocks and Files
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 […]| Blocks and Files
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 […]| Blocks and Files
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 […]| Blocks and Files
A Greek geospatial data company is storing its data on a Cubbit decentralized storage cloud for cash and sovereignty reasons. Cubbit’s decentralized storage is a web of interconnected individual private organizations’ datacenters with spare storage capacity, managed through its DS3 Composer software. These sites or nodes provide S3-compatible storage with data split into fragments, encrypted […]| Blocks and Files
BestBrokers has collated data from Pitchbook, Crunchbase and more, and provided a table of the biggest funding rounds in AI in September 2025: It also has a graphic showing what it believes to be the largest AI funding rounds in the whole of 2025 so far: … Databricks launched Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity to help […]| Blocks and Files
Infinidat has refreshed its fourth-generation (G4) InfiniBox arrays with larger drives, more slots, faster internal networking, a smaller all-flash model, S3 protocol support, QLC flash, and a new capacity-upgrade scheme. The InfiniBox arrays are high-end and scale-up storage array products competing with Dell PowerMax, Hitachi Vantara VSP and IBM DS8000 systems. Their unique features include […]| Blocks and Files
Cloudian has launched a HyperScale AI Data Platform (AIDP), with its HyperStore S3-compatible object storage being the datastore for AI models and agents running on Nvidia GPU hardware and software. HyperScale AIDP is built on the Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU in line with Nvidia’s AI Data Platform reference design. HyperStore supports […]| 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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