Storj reaches for the stars with storage service targeted at media and film production

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Distributed storage firm Storj has targeted media firms with a compute and data platform targeted at their particular needs. The…
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Seagate bets small as it invests over £100m in Derry photonics plant

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Seagate is pouring another £100 million into its Northern Ireland nano-photonics operation as it bets on hard drives playing a…

Lucidity turns spotlight onto Kubernetes storage costs

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Lucidity has pledged to bring some control to Kubernetes storage spending, extending its AutoScaler platform’s purview to the container orchestration…

NetApp sends in the clones to boost AI pitch as StorageGRID hits 12

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NetApp rolled out version 12 of its StorageGRID object based storage platform this week, saying the update will mean improved…

VAST Data picks up Red Stapler to help it pin down hyperscalers

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VAST Data has snagged a team of NetApp veterans to spearhead its hyperscaler and multi-cloud strategy with the acquisition of…

Cirata debuts Symphony as it looks to retune its business

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Cirata has launched a new cloud data platform which it promises will enable “continuous movement and management” of enterprise data…

d-Matrix says things can only get faster with IO accelerator

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d-Matrix has unwrapped the next building block in its AI acceleration strategy, in the shape of an IO accelerator it…

Volatile SSD markets? Get used to it, analysts say

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Supply and demand mismatches could become the norm in the SSD market as suppliers grapple with an increasingly volatile market,…

Storage News Roundup - September 5

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SK Hynix has “assembled” what it says in the industry’s first high NA EUV lithography system, positioning it to supply…

Operational and analytic graph database in one

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Neo4j has launched Infinigraph, a graph database that can run operational and analytical workloads together in a single system at…

Geniez databot opens up mainframe data to LLMs and AI agents

Chris Mellor -
Startup Geniez is stepping out of stealth mode, developing software to connect AI Large Language Models and agents with mainframes and…

Cisco teams with Nvidia, VAST on Secure AI Factory

Chris Mellor -
Cisco has allied with Nvidia and VAST Data to launch a Secure AI Factory – a bundle of servers, GPUs,…

XenData adds ALTO disk archive support

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XenData, which sells tape and cloud archive systems, is adding support for ALTO spun-down disk archives so customers can manage…

Veeam rolls out Linux-based backup software appliance

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Veeam has introduced a backup software appliance to make it easier to deploy, install, and operate its Data Platform backup…

3-tier Cohesity and follow-the-leader marketing

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Cohesity is like a three-tier company, with the tiers growing larger as new growth opportunities emerge. This was a perception…

CTERA survey shows most firms bounce back from ransomware

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Eighty-three percent of businesses that suffered a ransomware infection in the last two years recovered, with only 17 percent suffering…

d-Matrix claims 3D stacked memory will smash AI inference bottlenecks

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Digital in-memory compute chip startup d-Matrix has a new 3D stacking memory technology (3DIMC) promising to run AI models 10x…

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