Discovering Diskover’s data management discipline
US startup Diskover is a top-down open source metadata management software company with relatively few but significant customers in Media, EDA, Energy, and Life Science, and appears to have...
Lenovo retools storage portfolio for AI
Lenovo has released 21 storage products, including a liquid-cooled HCI system, in a major storage portfolio refresh aimed at customers building AI-focused infrastructure.
Scott Tease, Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Product Group...
WEKA reshuffles C-suite amid AI push
WEKA has appointed new chief revenue, product, and strategy officers.
The company supplies high-performance, parallel access file system software for enterprise and HPC, with AI and agentic AI workloads now...
Hitachi Vantara adds AI ransomware detection from Index Engines
Hitachi Vantara is joining Dell, IBM, and Infinidat in using Index Engines’ AI-powered ransomware detection software.
The CyberSense product from Index Engines uses AI and machine learning analysis to compare...
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...
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...
Redis Vector Sets and LangCache speed GenAI models
Redis has announced the Vector Sets data type and fully managed LangCache semantic caching service for faster and more effective GenAI model development and execution.
Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is...
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...
China’s YanRong integrates KVCache with its filesystem to accelerate AI inferencing
By integrating KVCache into its filesystem, YanRong says it has dramatically improved the KV cache hit rates and long-context processing, making AI inferencing cheaper.
Chinese storage software supplier YanRong provides...