Object First’s business is scaling up
Object First, the Veeam-specific object-based backup appliance startup, says it registered 389 percent bookings growth in 2024 along with a 374 percent increase in transacting partners.
The company was started...
Hammerspace gets WEKA’s ex-CRO as its sales boss
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has orchestrated its first Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Giannetti, who abruptly left the CRO spot at WEKA last month.
Hammerspace sells Global Data Platform software based on...
Italian healthcare provider picks Cubbit for S3 backup
Italian healthcare organization ASL CN1 Cuneo has begun using DS3 geo-distributed storage from Cubbit for its S3 backup, saying this has helped with compliance issues and cut costs.
DS3 Composer...
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...
GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event,...
BMC Software enhances mainframe data storage and AI services
BMC Software has released data storage and AI productivity enhancements to its mainframe services.
The January 2025 update to the BMC AMI portfolio “breaks new ground” in enabling what is...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...
Cloudian becomes a Hammerspace GDP storage citizen
Object storage supplier Cloudian is partnering unstructured data orchestrator Hammerspace by making its HyperStore object storage a repository used by Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform’s parallel NFS-based file system.
The Global...
AI data pipelines could use a hand from our features, says Komprise
Interview. AI training and inferencing needs access to datasets. The dataset contents will need to be turned into vector-embedded data for GenAI large language models (LLMs) to work on...
ExaGrid claims 4,590 customers as it points to growth
ExaGrid claims it is fielding "record bookings" and revenue – although as a privately held company it provides no comparative figures for this – for the final 2024 quarter, up 20...
Storage news ticker – January 6
Box CEO Aaron Levie posted a chart tracking historical storage costs on X/Twitter:
He said: "When we started Box, the hard drives in our servers were ~80 GB, and we...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...