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,...
XenData ships hybrid archive appliance
XenData has taken the wraps off its new X10 Media Archive Appliance, which connects to one or two external LTO drives and can manage an “unlimited number” of offline...
BMC modernizes mainframe storage with cloud-first solutions
The new Cloud Data Sets feature in BMC Software’s AMI Cloud Data platform “transforms” mainframe data management by providing direct access to cloud object storage, without requiring modifications to...
Storage Ticker – December 16 2024
Seattle-based Amperity has launched a Customer Data Cloud – an AI-powered setup designed to help users transform raw customer data in a data warehouse into actionable business assets through...
Storage news ticker – December 5
Ceph news: IBM Storage Ceph has introduced several new features to Ceph's orchestrator that simplify the deployment of IBM Storage Ceph Object and associated services. Enhancing the Ceph Object...
Freely access NetBackup files without using Veritas software
S2|DATA has launched a no-cost Libertas utility to read and access Veritas NetBackup disk images – without requiring NetBackup software or licensing.
Libertas is a Windows desktop application that catalogs...
Quantum DXi9200 hybrid backup appliance replaces previous models
Quantum has launched a high-end DXi9200 target backup appliance as its sole hybrid (flash+disk) hardware accompanying the two all-flash T-series and two V5000 virtual appliances.
As a consequence, its DXi...
Storage news ticker – November 22
Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, Backblaze expects...
Quantum faces revenue drop but anticipates turnaround with operational overhaul
Quantum reported subdued results for its second FY 2025 quarter but said operational improvements, a product portfolio refresh, and go-to-market enhancements would return the company to growth.
Revenues in the...
Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions
Huawei’s in-house development of Magneto-Electric Disk (MED) archive storage technology combines an SSD with a Huawei-developed tape drive to provide warm (nearline) and cold data storage.
MED technology was first...
Storage news ticker – October 3
Adaptive announced a control plane that brokers access across all surfaces and safeguards sensitive information, protecting data closer to its source, minimizing sensitive data exposure. It uses an agentless architecture...