Blocks & Files is a storage news, information and analysis site covering storage media, devices from drives through arrays to server-based storage, cloud storage, networking and protocols, data management, suppliers and standards. We publish news, views, opinions and analysis of storage industry events and developments, aiming to keep storage users, developers, consultants, marketeers, salespeople, support staff, analysts and everyone else involved in IT storage up to date with what’s going...| Blocks and Files
Rubrik delivery partner Assured Data Protection (ADP) is itself partnering US headquartered technology services distributor (TSD) Telarus. As a result Telarus will offer Assured’s Rubrik-based data backup and disaster recovery (DR) as a managed service, providing end customers with cyber resiliency capability. The partnership will create new growth opportunities for both companies and help satisfy […]| Blocks and Files
IBM revenues are on a rising trend with its locked-in customers spending big on the new mainframe cycle and GenAI software and services, with more to come. Big Blue reported revenues of $16.3 billion, up 9 percent year-over-year, with a $1.74 billion GAAP profit, reversing the year-ago $3 million loss. Four of its five reporting segments […]| Blocks and Files
Cirrus Data has added MCP Server support to its Cirrus Data Cloud, enabling AI agent involvement in its data migration operations. Cirrus Data’s software can migrate any block workload, physical or virtual, to any destination: on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments. It supports migrating any block storage device, including physical RDMs (Raw Device […]| Blocks and Files
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
Orbiting datacenters look a lot more feasible with figures from Starcloud showing that power and cooling up in orbit is effectively free once deployed. Startup Starcloud wants to build datacenters in low Earth orbit. It was founded in January 2024 as Lumen Orbit by CEO Philip Johnston, CTO Ezra Feilden, and chief engineer Adi Oltean. […]| Blocks and Files
HPE’s Alletra Storage MP X10000 addresses the problems of AI data management The rapid growth of Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming industries, driving innovation, and creating unprecedented opportunities. But as organizations embrace this transformative technology, they’re also grappling with the monumental challenges of managing the massive datasets GenAI relies on. From synthetic data generation to […]| 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
The MariaDB Enterprise Platform now has RAG pipeline and AI agent support, and an Exasol-based Exa in-memory engine accelerates analytics. The company provides the open-source MariaDB relational database, available as a free community edition (MariaDB Community Server), An enterprise edition either paid-for support (MariaDB Enterprise Server) and MariaDB Cloud, a fully-managed database-as-a-service offering. Native vector […]| Blocks and Files
The latest OS release from VergeIO introduces private, on-prem AI and ransomware-fighting immutable snapshots, while also improving the company’s alternative-to-VMware features. The company’s VergeOS software virtualizes a server with a hypervisor, software-defined networking (VergeFabric), and storage (VergeFS) to provide a hyperconverged server system, which it calls an ultra-converged datacenter. Version 26 of VergeOS adds VergeIQ large […]| Blocks and Files
Veeam confirms it is buying Securiti, the cybersecurity startup founded by serial entrepreneur Rehan Jalil, with a $1.725 billion price tag. The Veeam-Securiti combo will provide classic data protection, modern cyber-resilience, and knowledge graph-based data security posture management (DSPM) that covers both primary and secondary data, the full data estate as they put it. The […]| 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 latest, v6.0, major release of IBM’s Storage Scale has a Data Acceleration Tier (DAT), a high-performance NVMeoF-based storage layer designed to deliver extreme IOPS and ultra-low latency for real-time AI inferencing workloads. Storage Scale, originally called GPFS, is IBM’s parallel file system software and is popular in supercomputing and high-performance computing circles as well […]| Blocks and Files
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the “bathtub curve” effect may be imaginary. The idea is that disk drives fail either early on in their life or after many years, and a plot of failure rate over time shows a U-shaped curve with higher rates at the start and end of working life and few or […]| 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
AI-powered data trust company Ataccama announced a native integration with Atlan, bringing Ataccama’s automated data quality intelligence directly into experiences powered by Atlan’s metadata lakehouse, including search, lineage, and glossary. Stewards define the rules in Ataccama, and data consumers see trust signals instantly in Atlan, reducing risk, accelerating decision-making, and building confidence in AI. … The […]| Blocks and Files
Seagate and ZeroPoint Technologies demonstrated hardware-accelerated compression within a CXL memory tier at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, CA. How could disk drive supplier Seagate utilise ZeroPoint’s HW-accelerated memory compression technology within Compute Express Link (CXL) memory tiers? Is it envisaging a JBOD chassis, full of Exos disk drives, with a CXL memory […]| Blocks and Files
Long-lived and near-silent malware lurking in systems for months can be detected by looking for signs of their presence in a historical stream of immutable backups. Rubrik found evidence of long-lived Chinese nation-state level malware code in its immutable backups using updated threat intelligence The company was alerted by Google Threat Intelligence (with Mandiant) to […]| 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
“We love mainframe and we want to make it better,” says Model9 co-founder and CEO Gil Peleg. He wants to demonstrate his love by killing off mainframe Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) with a software explosive to blow them up. The mainframe market includes the largest companies in the world. It is a worthwhile market niche. […]| Blocks and Files
Blocks & Files is a storage news, information and analysis site covering storage media, devices from drives through arrays to server-based storage, cloud storage, networking and protocols, data management, suppliers and standards. We publish news, views, opinions and analysis of storage industry events and developments, aiming to keep storage users, developers, consultants, marketeers, salespeople, support staff, analysts and everyone else involved in IT storage up to date with what’s going...| Blocks and Files
Quantum has written a new unified and scale-out file and object storage software stack called Myriad using Kubernetes microservices.| Blocks and Files
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has released an updated version of its EXAScaler parallel file system software with configuration and management APIs to automate its operation, support for Nvidia’s GPU-Direct Storage, and Hot Node caching. The company has also added a single SKU offering, combining its A3I AI storage system with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD, providing better management […]| Blocks and Files
Blocks & Files is a storage news, information and analysis site covering storage media, devices from drives through arrays to server-based storage, cloud storage, networking and protocols, data management, suppliers and standards. We publish news, views, opinions and analysis of storage industry events and developments, aiming to keep storage users, developers, consultants, marketeers, salespeople, support staff, analysts and everyone else involved in IT storage up to date with what’s going...| Blocks and Files
Startup Geniez is stepping out of stealth mode, developing software to connect AI Large Language Models and agents with mainframes and extract real-time data for AI use. LLMs and agents typically query x86 server and unstructured data held on storage arrays or in the public cloud. They use existing search methodology to look at structured data […]| Blocks and Files
Profile. IBM mainframe data access company VirtualZ Computing has a native American heritage woven into its backstory which is connected to two of its founders: CEO Jeanne Glass and CTO Vince Re. VirtualZ, founded in Minneapolis in 2018, has two products: Lozen, which provides real-time, read-write, peer-to-peer, access to IBM z mainframe data; and PropelZ, […]| 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
NetApp has announced new hardware, software, and partner systems and features to meet AI and cybersecurity needs.| Blocks and Files
NetApp has doubled down on its all-flash systems with a new SAN array, the ASA A-Series, and a new StorageGRID object storage system.| Blocks and Files
NetApp has organized its E-Series hardware with BeeGFS software to be certified with Nvidia's SuperPod AI powerhouse.| Blocks and Files
Blocks & Files is a storage news, information and analysis site covering storage media, devices from drives through arrays to server-based storage, cloud storage, networking and protocols, data management, suppliers and standards. We publish news, views, opinions and analysis of storage industry events and developments, aiming to keep storage users, developers, consultants, marketeers, salespeople, support staff, analysts and everyone else involved in IT storage up to date with what’s going...| Blocks and Files
GPU frenzy feeding components market too, Hynix preps HBM4, gets ZUF, MinIO preps pods, and OWC stages motion picture RAID| Blocks and Files
Analysis: NetApp posted record revenue this quarter, helped by all-flash array sales and public cloud storage demand. In the fourth fiscal 2025 quarter ended April 25, NetApp reported record revenues of $1.73 billion, up 4 percent on the year. There was a $340 million profit (GAAP net income), 16.8 percent more than a year ago. […]| Blocks and Files
Huawei is reportedly about to launch an AI SSD that will work with its Unified Cache Manager software to offload key-value cache data.| Blocks and Files
SK Hynix will complete its $9 billion takeover of Intel’s NAND memory business in the coming weeks, setting the seal on the stumbling US giant’s exit from the flash business. The news emerged as US president Donald Trump pontificated on the fate of Intel, declaring that its CEOs post Andy Grove (who vacated the role […]| Blocks and Files
Trendforce says AI rollouts, manufacturing concerns, and rise of Chinese player mean supply mismatches and market uncertainty| Blocks and Files
Samsung, currently on its ninth-generation 3D NAND with 286 layers, has 400-layer technology in development.| Blocks and Files
The US is reversing its stance on export exemptions, which effectively cripples Samsung and SK hynix's DRAM and 3D NAND production in China.| Blocks and Files
Nutanix reached a negative landmark, with losses exceeding revenues in its latest quarter, but financial analysts are happy with its progress. Revenues were $378.52 million in its first fiscal 2022 quarter, which ended October 31, up 21 per cent annually, for a loss of $419.8 million. For every dollar it earned Nutanix spent $1.11 — […]| Blocks and Files
Startup Nebulon has announced for the first time a customer win for its storage processing unit-based smartCore infrastructure. The client – South African MSP SYSDBA – said choosing Nebulon was a “no-brainer.” The Service Processing Unit (SPU – originally called a Storage Processing Unit) is a PCIe card added to a server and controlled through […]| Blocks and Files
Nebulon, which launched its hardware-assisted cloud-defined storage in June last year, has broadened its scope to become a smart infrastructure SaaS supplier providing a better hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offering. The startup’s first product was a Storage Processing Unit (SPU), an add-in, FH-FL PCIe card, with an 8-core, 3GHz ARM CPU plus encryption/dedupe offload engine. This […]| Blocks and Files
DPU startup Fungible recently briefed Blocks & Files on its views regarding Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit. Co-founder and CEO Pradeep Sindhu said it was inadequate as a data centre cost saver, lacked imagination, and couldn’t help solve the public cloud’s trillion-dollar paradox, also known as the Hotel California problem. Intel launched its data processing unit […]| Blocks and Files
Nvidia is adding storage controller functions to its BlueField-2 SmartNIC card and is gunning for business from big external storage array vendors such as Dell, Pure and VAST Data. Update: Fungible comment added; 3 December 2020. Kevin Deierling, Nvidia SVP marketing for networking, outlined in a phone interview yesterday a scheme whereby external storage array […]| Blocks and Files
VMware and Nvidia announced yesterday they are working to make VMware software work better with Nvidia chips. They say the joint initiative, dubbed Project Monterey, will “introduce a new security model that offloads hypervisor, networking, security and storage tasks from the CPU to the DPU”. The aim is to offload hypervisor, networking, security and storage […]| Blocks and Files
Q&A How does Pensando Systems work its server speed-enhancing magic? The venture-back startup came out of stealth in late October and NetApp was revealed as a customer earlier this week. At the time of de-cloaking to announce it had raised $145m in a C-series round, Pensando claimed its proprietary accelerator cards perform five to nine […]| Blocks and Files
Composable infrastructure startup DriveScale and its team have been absorbed into Twitter. Nick Tornow, a platform lead at Twitter, tweeted: “DriveScale’s extremely experienced team will bring deep knowledge of storage protocols, technologies, and products to help us develop a persistent block-level storage product in our data centres to accelerate application development across the company.” Terms […]| Blocks and Files
Liqid, the composable infrastructure vendor, has won a $20.6m deal with the US Army Corps of Engineers – bagging its third supercomputer contract in a month. In August, Liqid scooped up two DoD contracts, totalling nearly $32m for two composable systems, with a combined 15 petaflops, that will run physics-based, AI, and ML applications for […]| Blocks and Files
Dell is adding GPUs, FPGAs and NVMe storage to the MX7000 composable system via a deal with Liqid. This makes the MX7000 systems better suited for data-intensive applications such as AI, machine learning and low-latency analytics. Dell indirectly announced the hookup with Liqid, a software-defined composable infrastructure vendor, via a reference architecture document published on […]| Blocks and Files
At the SC19 event Composable systems startup Liqid announced it can compose servers with Western Digital’s OpenFlex storage both within and across racks in a data centre, thanks to NVMe over Fabrics. Liqid says users can manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate data centre devices on-demand as workflows […]| Blocks and Files
NetApp is the first storage vendos to respond to the rise of VAST Data with its internal ONTAP Data Platform for AI development.| Blocks and Files
VAST Data has brought Nvidia hardware and NIM microservices software into its AI portfolio to create an InsightEngine product.| Blocks and Files
Dell has boosted the query speed of its data lakehouse, added and upgraded connectors, and improved monitoring and security.| Blocks and Files
Dell has announced a PowerScale F910 system with a parallel file system.| Blocks and Files
Dell has upped its PowerScale scaleout filer game with two models featuring Sapphire Rapids Xeon controllers and PCIe 5 buses to move data faster around the system. PowerScale systems are basically PowerEdge servers with directly attached storage, running the OneFS operating system. There were three PowerScale models: F200, F600 and F900. They all use the […]| Blocks and Files
The vast market penetration of MinIO’s open source object storage software has enabled the company to raise $103 million at a >$1 billion unicorn valuation. The cash will be used for marketing, and not building out a worldwide sales and branch office infrastructure. The adoption statistics for its software almost defy belief: ARR grew by […]| Blocks and Files
Scality has popped the lid on ARTESCA, its new cloud-native object storage, co-designed with HPE, that is available alongside its existing RING object storage product. Artesca configurations start with a single Linux server and then scale out, whereas the RING product requires a minimum of three servers. The Kubernetes-orchestrated ARTESCA container software runs on x86 […]| Blocks and Files
Dell EMC is developing a cloud-native object storage called ObjectScale that will work with Tanzu and provision object storage via Kubernetes. The company will integrate ObjectScale software with the vSAN Data Persistence Platform and so work with VMware Cloud Foundation. ObjectScale will enable object storage to be deployed anywhere that VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu […]| Blocks and Files
Nasuni customers can now integrate their Nasuni data stores and workflows with customer’s customized Copilot assistants.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni has hired a CMO to to push its cloud file services offering deeper into the market. The company hired Pete Agresta from Pure to be CRO in January and Jim Liddle, the ex-CEO of acquired Storage Made Easy, and data intelligence technology promotor, was appointed to the Chief Innovation Officer role in August. Now […]| Blocks and Files
Egnyte has introduced specific AI/ML services to trigger workflows for images and documents in the AEC market.| Blocks and Files
Cloud file data services supplier Nasuni is extending its Presidio partnership to include AWS public cloud control.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni aims to become a data intelligence company, using software to analyze and locate automatically indexed and tagged file data. Jim Liddle, VP for Nasuni’s Access Anywhere Product, told us the business – which currently supplies cloud-based file services, in contrast to on-premises filers – has exceeded a $100 million annual revenue run rate, and […]| Blocks and Files
Nasuni cloud file services proved popular in 2022 with a 52 percent rise in customer numbers to almost 750.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni wants growth in its cloud file services offering through a much larger enterprise presence. To that end, it has a new chief revenue officer: Pete Agresta, who comes from being VP enterprise sales at Pure Storage. We’re told that, at Pure, Agresta built an enterprise sales team that more than doubled Pure’s enterprise revenue […]| Blocks and Files
Cloud file data services supplier Nasuni has made its second acquisition in two months, buying UK-based Storage Made Easy.| Blocks and Files
Cloud file system supplier Nasuni has bought replicator DBM Cloud Systems to move on-premises file data to Nasuni’s cloud.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni has scored $60m in funding to keep growing its business with software development, expansion, and strategic acquisitions.| Blocks and Files
VAST Data is providing its AI OS, including all-flash storage, to the SK Telecom Petasus AI Cloud which provides GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) in South Korea’s sovereign AI cloud. SK Telecom, South Korea’s main telecommunications supplier, is evolving into an AI company. It is building an AI infrastructure based on a Haein cluster of Supermicro GPU servers […]| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage looked at the VAST/Solidigm SSDs vs HDDs white paper and thought that its device-level TCO comparison was not all there was to say. The company claims that its Direct Flash Modules can do better than either alternative, specifically on power usage and embodied Carbon. This is because its Direct Flash Modules (DFMs) having […]| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage has won a deal to supply ITS flash drive technology to Meta, with analysts seeing this as “an extremely positive outcome."| Blocks and Files
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
Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.| Blocks and Files
E2 – Enterprise and Datacenter Device Form Factor E2 is one of the EDSFF set. This specification defines the mechanical attributes of the E2 form factor with the goal of supporting at least 64 NAND packages and fit vertically in standard 2U rack mounted host systems. It prioritizes high capacity and is ideal for high-capacity […]| Blocks and Files
New Zealand-based Nyriad has had a makeover, with the founders out, new chairman, new funding, new CEO, exec hires, and a relocation to the USA. Back in 2014 CEO Matthew Simmons and CTO Alex St John co-founded Nyriad and devised a different way to build a storage controller designed to cope with exabyte levels of […]| 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
New Zealand startup Novodisq demonstrated ultra high-capacity SSD storage at the FMS 2025 summit, showing an 11.5 PB 2RU blade server.| Blocks and Files
Sandisk has announced a 256 TB SSD at FMS 2025 that will ship in the first half of 2026.| Blocks and Files
Kioxia has announced the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door to a 200-plus petabyte rack and 5-rack, 1 exabyte configuration.| Blocks and Files
Solidigm has announced a 122 TB version of its D5-P5336 SSD on the same day that Phison announced a Pascari D205V SSD with 128 TB| Blocks and Files
SK hynix says it’s going to produce ultra-high-capacity, high-performance SSDs for AI servers by using its 321-layer 3D NAND in QLC format. SK hynix is beginning mass production of a 321-layer, QLC 2 Tb die, the world’s first implementation of more than 300 layers using QLC technology, with product shipping in the first half of […]| Blocks and Files
HPE’s Alletra array performance results have been revealed, with the top supported SAP HANA Node count rising from 64 for the clustered all-flash Nimble to 216 for the mid-range Alletra 6000, a 3.4x increase. The 6000’s supported node count is also, surprisingly, 2.25 times better than that of the high-end Alletra 9000’s 96. These numbers […]| Blocks and Files
Hitachi Vantara has beefed up its high-end storage line-up with the VSP 5000 series, which it claims is the world’s fastest enterprise array. The company can certainly claim bragging rights in IOPS terms but others perform better on latency and bandwidth. The obvious comparison is with Dell EMC’s PowerMax which has a higher latency (sub-200μs), […]| Blocks and Files
HPE’s Primera array, launched today, is an evolutionary upgrade of its 3PAR platform, with expanded InfoSight management and claimed Nimble array ease-of-use. Our sister publication The Register carries the announcement story here. On this page Blocks & Files tries to figure out the speeds and feeds. This is a bit of a headscratcher as HPE […]| Blocks and Files
Adeptia that automates the handling of data exchanged between businesses using, for example, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) methods.| Blocks and Files
There are 21 storage industry startups worth a billion dollars or more – unicorns – according to a CB Insights newsletter. Update. Note on Coldago’s December 2022 storage unicorn list added at end of story. January 18, 2023. The newsletter lists 1,250 startup and private company tech unicorns as at Dec 31, 2022. We downloaded the list […]| Blocks and Files
Private equity as careful steward: Datacore's CEO thinks so| Blocks and Files
DataCore has announced Bolt, cloud-native storage for containers that supports block access using NVMe-over-Fabrics/TCP.| Blocks and Files
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage, Oracle supporting RoCE and Optane, Amazon Web Services partnering, technology patent awards and more, from ReRAM to data warehousing via edge computing right out to DNA-based […]| Blocks and Files
Open source Kubernetes-focused startup MayaData has undergone a CEO change as — this is almost laughable — the Chief Transformation Officer transforms the CEO who hired him out of the job and himself into it. Coincidentally, this information comes out as Kubernetes startup Diamanta’s CEO change news broke. It’s all-change in Kubernetes startup CEO land. […]| Blocks and Files
Open source developer MayaData has announced Kubera; a product for the operational management of Kubernetes. Kubernetes came into being at Google because managing the development, deployment and de-commissioning if containers was excessively complex for developers. Now MayaData has launched Kubera because managing Kubernetes has become too complex. Murat Karslioglu, Head of Product at MayaData, issued […]| Blocks and Files
Caringo, an object storage software supplier, has launched a set of appliances that run a new version of its Swarm software. Swarm 11.1 includes built-in content management, search and metadata management. It has improved S3 compliance, faster software performance, email and Slack alerting and has integrate Elasticsearch 6. Caringo claims Swarm Server Appliances (SSA) start […]| Blocks and Files
Developer of container-attached storage for Kubernetes MayaData has been given access to DataCore technology while DataCore gets a piece of MayaData’s action, in a funding-related dance valued at $26m. Evan Powell, co-founder of MayaData and CEO, said: “We are very excited to be working with DataCore and Insight Partners to deliver data agility to users […]| Blocks and Files
DataCore has added file and object storage to its software-defined storage portfolio. vFiLO inherits block-oriented SANsymphony’s scale-out, tiering and parallel IO architecture, and the ability to virtualize third-party file and object stores. vFiLO can be used alongside SANsymphony or independently. It supports NFS (v3, v4.2), SMB (v2, v3) and the S3 protocol inside a global […]| Blocks and Files
Caringo is speeding up large video transfers with Swarm 11, an update for its video-centric object storage platform. Swarm 11 integrates with on-demand workflows and provides: Large file bulk upload in the content UI, Partial File Restore (video clipping), File sharing, Backup to any Amazon S3 region/device. Any Swarm domain or an entire cluster can […]| 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
On the second day of Dell Technologies World, the company announced chatbots, zero trust security, edge site offerings, and more.| Blocks and Files
