IBM has a THINK, boards the agentic enterprise AI train
IBM is giving its customers a tidal wave of watsonx AI news at its THINK 2025 conference, saying that AI agents are shifting from AI that chats with you...
Lightbits: record Q1 with rise in sales and deal sizes
Privately-owned Lightbits says it has broken growth records in the first 2025 quarter with a business surge - though we have no way of verifying this claim.
It supplies...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Starburst CEO: In AI, it’s data access that wins
Interview: Startup Starburst develops and uses Trino open source distributed SQL to query and analyze distributed data sources. We spoke to CEO Justin Borgman about the company's strategy.
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Storage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal data operations)...
IBM boosts Storage Scale with content-aware AI integration
IBM Storage Scale, the longstanding parallel file system, now includes content-awareness to enhance its retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capability.
Storage Scale has a substantial history in high-performance computing (HPC) and enterprise...
Storage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Aerospike says v...
Qumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge.
Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its...
Market reacts after Commvault beats Q3 forecast
Commvault substantially outperformed its revenue guidance of $245 million by reporting a 21 percent year-over-year rise to $262 million in its third fiscal 2025 quarter, ending December 31.
The...
The data-driven holiday hustle
COMMISSIONED: AI and advanced storage systems ensure a smooth and profitable winter shopping season, so retailers don’t miss a beat during the holiday rush.
As the clock strikes 12:01 a.m....
Storage Ticker – December 16 2024
Seattle-based Amperity has launched a Customer Data Cloud – an AI-powered setup designed to help users transform raw customer data in a data warehouse into actionable business assets through...
Virtuozzo leadership revamp targets VMware switchers
Virtuozzo has had a executive restructuring with founder Serg Bell returning to the CEO role, along with other senior exec changes, as the company focuses on the small and...