Backblaze offers low-cost, fast B2 cloud storage tier
Cloud storage provider Backblaze is now selling B2 Overdrive cloud storage with accelerated data access speed for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Backblaze offers its existing S3-compliant B2 service...
HYCU puts up R-Shield, extra protection in its R-Cloud
HYCU has added R-Shield anomaly and ransomware detection, fortified protection, and instant recovery features to its R-Cloud data protection-as-a-service offering.
R-Cloud, with R standing for Resiliency, is the renamed Protégé...
Storage news ticker – April 24
AWS has lowered the price of its fast S3 Express One Zone object storage service, affecting storage, reads, writes, data uploads, and retrieval per byte with reads seeing the...
Veeam shows off AI data tools at San Diego summit
Veeam announced data resilience, cybersecurity, and AI integration updates and initiatives at the VeeamON 2025 conference in San Diego, April 21-23. The company, now the largest data protection vendor...
Hammerspace secures $100M to chase AI-driven data growth
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has ingested $100 million in funding to accelerate its global expansion.
Up until two years ago, Hammerspace, founded in 2018, was financed by founder and CEO David...
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...
InfluxData rolls out InfluxDB 3 to power real-time apps at scale
InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions in a bid to speed and simplify time series data processing.
InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source, high-speed, recent-data engine...
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
Storadera touts low-cost S3 storage hosted entirely in the EU
Estonia-based Storadera's pitch is simple: low-cost, single-tier S3 storage in the cloud using optimized disk drive storage with higher-capacity shingled drives and AI-improved storage operations on its roadmap.
CEO, founder,...
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...
Keepit answers SaaS app backup scheme questions
How is self-hosted SaaS backup service business Keepit going to back up hundreds of different SaaS apps by 2028, starting from just seven this year?
We asked its CTO, Jakob...
Cohesity goes Googlewards with Gaia, Gemini and Mandiant
Data protector Cohesity is integrating its Gaia GenAI search assistant with Google’s Gemini AI model and its Agentspace, using Google Threat Intelligence and working with Mandiant on incident response...