WEKA boosts GenAI speed with Mooncake vLLM tech
File system provider WEKA wants to make its customers’ GenAI models respond faster by using a vLLM Mooncake tech combination.
This was revealed in a blog post by new hire Val...
AWS: S3 Metadata goes GA stateside to speed analytics
Amazon Web Services has made Amazon S3 Metadata generally available following its introduction in preview at the company’s re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas.
Amazon describes S3 Metadata as the...
Scality launches pay-as-you-go ARTESCA storage for Veeam Backup
Scality has an all-new pay-as-you-go licensing program featuring ARTESCA as a software storage backup target for Veeam Backup-as-a-Service offerings. It’s aimed at Scality Cloud & Service Providers (SCSP), meaning...
Hammerspace claims tenfold revenue growth for 2024
Hammerspace has reported a tenfold increase in revenue from 2023 to 2024, showcasing the confidence behind its recent hiring of Jeff Gianetti as chief revenue officer. As a private...
NetApp touches down with the San Francisco 49ers
NetApp has become a founding level partner of the San Francisco 49ers professional football team in a multi-year deal and is now its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure Partner.
NetApp is...
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...