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Sandook delivers pooled SSD performance-boosting management -
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Sandook delivers pooled SSD performance-boosting management
MIT and Tufts University researchers have devized a performance-boosting management scheme for poole ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/04/13/sandook-delivers-pooled-ssd-performance-boosting-management/5216946
about 6 hours ago
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Hungry private equity eyeing up Commvault -
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Hungry private equity eyeing up Commvault
Private equity business Thoma Bravo and others are looking to acquire Commvault, according to Reuter ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protection/2026/04/13/hungry-private-equity-eyeing-up-commvault/5216813
about 10 hours ago
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Panzura has a new CEO -
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Panzura has a new CEO
Hybrid cloud file services supplier Panzura has a new CEO, Karthik Ramamurthy, capping an eventful p ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/04/13/panzura-has-a-new-ceo/5216841
about 10 hours ago
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SK Hynix shipping 321-layer SSD for Dell’s AI PC -
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SK Hynix shipping 321-layer SSD for Dell’s AI PC
SK Hynix has started shipping its PQC21 large thumbnail-size consumer SSD (cSSF) to Dell. This is a ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/04/10/sk-hynix-shipping-321-layer-ssd-for-dells-ai-pc/5215949
3 days ago
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Everpure says TurboQuant turns KV cache into a storage problem -
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Everpure says TurboQuant turns KV cache into a storage problem
Everpure blogger Robert Alvarez says FlashBlade and the TurboQuant compression means 'the KV cache i ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/04/10/everpure-says-turboquant-turns-kv-cache-into-a-storage-problem/5215900
3 days ago
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WEKA claims Nvidia CMX support plays to its strengths -
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WEKA claims Nvidia CMX support plays to its strengths
As the dust settles on Nvidia GTC 2026 news about its CMX KV cache extension to external RDMA-connec ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/04/09/weka-claims-nvidia-cmx-support-plays-to-its-strengths/5214925
3 days ago
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Wasabi relieves Seagate of Lyve Cloud business -
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Wasabi relieves Seagate of Lyve Cloud business
Independent public cloud provider Wasabi is buying Seagate's Lyve Cloud operation, with its S3-compa ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud/2026/04/09/wasabi-relieves-seagate-of-lyve-cloud-business/5214940
3 days ago
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Lenovo closes Infinidat acquisition to boost enterprise storage -
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Lenovo closes Infinidat acquisition to boost enterprise storage
Lenovo has completed the acquisition of Infinidat and its high-end enterprise storage syst ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/block/2026/04/10/lenovo-closes-infinidat-acquisition-to-boost-enterprise-storage/5215884
3 days ago
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DDN hires Chief Revenue Officer - Kevin Delane -
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DDN hires Chief Revenue Officer
DDN has appointed Kevin Delane as its President and Chief Revenue Officer.He comes from being EVP Fo ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/04/08/ddn-hires-chief-revenue-officer/5214793
5 days ago
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VDURA says 30 TB QLC SSD capacity now costs 22.6x more than HDD -
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VDURA says 30 TB QLC SSD capacity now costs 22.6x more than HDD
VDURA says its Flash Volatility Index shows that, by Q1 2026, 30 TB QLC SSD capacity cost 22.6 times ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/04/08/vdura-says-30-tb-qlc-ssd-capacity-now-costs-226x-more-than-hdd/5214761
5 days ago
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Samsung fabs memory gold -
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Samsung fabs memory gold
Samsung is turning flash bits into cash at an accelerating rate, as memory price rises sent its prel ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/04/08/samsung-fabs-memory-gold/5214782
6 days ago
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Volumez veers towards agentic AI data infrastructure -https://www.blocksandfiles.com/block/2026/04/08/volumez-veers-towards-agentic-ai-data-infrastructure/5214770
6 days ago
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S3 Files: AWS adds file access to S3, taking on NetApp and Qumulo -
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AWS adds file access to S3, taking on NetApp and Qumulo
AWS has added S3 Files to its S3 object storage service, creating new competition to existing file s ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud/2026/04/07/aws-adds-file-access-to-s3-taking-on-netapp-and-qumulo/5214675
6 days ago
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Nutanix pushes agentic AI, bare-metal Kubernetes at .NEXT 2026 -
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6 days ago
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Rebranded Nasuni reckons it has the AI agent juice -
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Nasuni reckons it has the AI juice
Nasuni has faster edge site data delivery and MCP support for AI agent and model data access, and is ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/04/07/nasuni-reckons-it-has-the-ai-juice/5214692
6 days ago
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Geyser Data, Spectra Logic bring tape-as-a-service archive to London -
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Geyser Data, Spectra Logic bring tape-as-a-service archive to London
Spectra Logic and Geyser Data have announced a tape-as-a-service (TaaS) archive deployment in L ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/tape/2026/04/02/geyser-data-spectra-logic-bring-tape-as-a-service-archive-to-london/5214174
11 days ago
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Remote NetApp array over photonic link nears local access speed -
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Remote NetApp array over photonic link nears local access speed
A proof of concept (PoC) has shown that metro-distance access to a NetApp flash array is almost as f ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/architecture/2026/04/02/remote-netapp-array-over-photonic-link-nears-local-access-speed/5213828
11 days ago
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Everpure is outpacing competitors in revenue and capacity growth -
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Everpure is outpacing competitors in revenue and capacity growth
Cites IDC numbers
https://chrismellor.substack.com/p/everpure-is-outpacing-competitors
12 days ago
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Walrus pitches MemWal as decentralized storage for AI agent memory -
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Walrus pitches MemWal as decentralized storage for AI agent memory
The Walrus Foundation reached out to Blocks & Files to let us know its product MemWal is av ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/31/walrus-pitches-memwal-as-decentralized-storage-for-ai-agent-memory/5213479
14 days ago
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Dell polishes PowerProtect, PowerScale and PowerStore -
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Dell polishes PowerProtect, PowerScale and PowerStore
Dell is strengthening its PowerProtect purpose-built backup appliances with a fleet dashboard, AI as ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protection/2026/03/31/dell-polishes-powerprotect-powerscale-and-powerstore/5213496
14 days ago
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Sony suspends memory card orders amid tight NAND supply -
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Sony suspends memory card orders amid tight NAND supply
Sony says it will no longer take orders for its memory card products due to its inability to secure ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/03/30/sony-suspends-memory-card-orders-amid-tight-nand-supply/5213470
14 days ago
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An attempt at summing up the KV caching situation after GTC 2026 - Nvidia and its partners' KV Cache extenders -
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Nvidia and its partners' KV Cache extenders
Nvidia upset the AI inferencing memory KV Caching applecart with its latest CMX concept and STX refe ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/30/nvidia-and-its-partners-kv-cache-extenders/5209284
15 days ago
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Komprise’s Flash Stretch tiers NAS to Cloud for flash capacity savings -
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Komprise’s Flash Stretch tiers NAS to Cloud for flash capacity savings
Data lifecycle manager Komprise has a Flash Stretch Assessment service to find and shunt rarely-acce ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/26/komprises-flash-stretch-tiers-nas-to-cloud-for-flash-capacity-savings/5211648
17 days ago
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Three SSD makers buy into Nanya to secure DRAM supply -
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Three SSD makers buy into Nanya to secure DRAM supply
Sandisk, Kioxia, and Solidigm are investing in niche memory supplier Nanya in a bid to secure DRAM s ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/03/27/three-ssd-makers-buy-into-nanya-to-secure-dram-supply/5211628
17 days ago
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The NAND and disk supply squeeze puts tape back on the agenda for Quantum -
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The NAND and disk supply squeeze puts tape back on the agenda for Quantum
How is Quantum progressing with regard to AI, thinking of StorNext as a potential data store, and ar ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/tape/2026/03/26/the-nand-and-disk-supply-squeeze-puts-tape-back-on-the-agenda-for-quantum/5211670
17 days ago
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Komprise’s Flash Stretch tiers NAS to Cloud for flash capacity savings -
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Komprise’s Flash Stretch tiers NAS to Cloud for flash capacity savings
Data lifecycle manager Komprise has a Flash Stretch Assessment service to find and shunt rarely-acce ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/26/komprises-flash-stretch-tiers-nas-to-cloud-for-flash-capacity-savings/5211648
18 days ago
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Databricks Lakewatch to unleash agentic swarms on malware detect-and-destroy missions -
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Databricks Lakewatch to unleash agentic swarms on malware detect-and-destroy missions
Databricks is becoming an active malware hunter with Lakewatch - swarms of agents hunting down malwa ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/security/2026/03/25/databricks-lakewatch-to-unleash-agentic-swarms-on-malware-detect-and-destroy-missions/5211505
18 days ago
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NetApp seals Elastio and Commvault deals for more resilience and less ransomware -
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NetApp seals Elastio and Commvault deals for more resilience and less ransomware
NetApp is hooking up with Elastio to add more ransomware checks to its backups, and with Commvault f ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/security/2026/03/25/netapp-seals-elastio-and-commvault-deals-for-more-resilience-and-less-ransomware/5211495
18 days ago
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NAND & DRAM fabber SK Hynix wants US stock listing for chip fab cash -
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NAND & DRAM fabber SK Hynix wants US stock listing for chip fab cash
SK Hynix is looking to a US stock market listing to raise up to $14 billion in cash.The HBM, DRAM, N ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/25/nand-dram-fabber-sk-hynix-wants-us-stock-listing-for-chip-fab-cash/5211518
18 days ago
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Nasuni adds Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to public cloud lineup -
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Nasuni adds Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to public cloud lineup
Nasuni has added native support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, bringing it alongside Amazon Web Se ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/25/nasuni-adds-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-to-public-cloud-lineup/5211485
18 days ago
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Data sovereignty issues - US clouds cast long shadow over EU data sovereignty, says Osmium -
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US clouds cast long shadow over EU data sovereignty, says Osmium
Storing data in Europe isn't enough to guarantee sovereignty if US cloud providers are involved, acc ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/25/us-clouds-cast-long-shadow-over-eu-data-sovereignty-says-osmium/5211459
19 days ago
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South Korea's XCENA bets on CXL memory with compute baked in, CEO explains -
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XCENA bets on CXL memory with compute baked in, CEO explains
XCENA is a South Korean startup focusing on CXL memory pooling and sharing with computational memory ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/25/xcena-bets-on-cxl-memory-with-compute-baked-in-ceo-explains/5211450
19 days ago
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William Blair analyst has seven publicly-owned storage vendors downgraded as AI clouds growth forecasts -
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Seven storage vendors downgraded as AI clouds growth forecasts
Seven storage software companies have had their prospects surprisingly downrated due to the onrush o ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/25/seven-storage-vendors-downgraded-as-ai-clouds-growth-forecasts/5211386
19 days ago
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Seagate says if you're adding disk platters, you've hit a density wall -
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Seagate: If you're adding platters, you've hit a density wall
Jason Feist, Seagate SVP for products and markets, says hard disk drive suppliers adding platters ar ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/disk/2026/03/25/seagate-if-youre-adding-platters-youve-hit-a-density-wall/5211295
19 days ago
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Turkey's NGX rolls out ExaScale block storage for AI workloads -
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NGX rolls out ExaScale block storage for AI workloads
NGX has developed its scale-out block storage technology to compete with other pure block storage pr ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/block/2026/03/24/ngx-rolls-out-exascale-block-storage-for-ai-workloads/5211334
20 days ago
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Druva adds Okta, Active Directory to identity resilience platform -
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Druva adds Okta, Active Directory to identity resilience platform
Druva has increased its identity resilience portfolio, adding Okta and Active Directory to the exist ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/security/2026/03/24/druva-adds-okta-active-directory-to-identity-resilience-platform/5211319
20 days ago
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Big changes in latest GigaOm Unstructured Data Management Radar report -
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Big changes in latest GigaOm Unstructured Data Management Radar report
GigaOm has issued v6 of its Unstructured Data Management Radar report with dramatic changes from&nbs ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/17/big-changes-in-latest-gigaom-unstructured-data-management-radar-report/5209300
28 days ago
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Everpure dives deeper into AI at GTC -
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Everpure dives deeper into AI
Everpure is triple-boosting its AI credentials at Nvidia’s GTC event with full AI data pipeline auto ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/16/everpure-dives-deeper-into-ai/5209351
28 days ago
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Dell’s AI story electrified by Lightning -
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Dell’s AI story electrified by Lightning
Dell has uprated its AI game, with Nvidia-powered AI engines and Lightning extreme scale parallel st ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/16/dells-ai-story-electrified-by-lightning/5209387
28 days ago
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Storage news ticker - 13 March - with lots of little and larger storage nuggets -
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Storage news ticker - 13 March
Entertainment and media-focused storage supplier 45Drives announced a strategic partnership wit ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/13/storage-news-ticker-13-march/5209223
about 1 month ago
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First FlashBlade//EXA benchmark - Everpure tops SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI IMAGE benchmark charts -
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Everpure tops SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI IMAGE benchmark charts
Everpure has overtaken an HPE/WEKA system to take top position in the SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI I ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/03/13/everpure-tops-specstorage-solution-2020-ai-image-benchmark-charts/5209245
about 1 month ago
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Rubrik cashes in on cyber-resilience - Q4fy2026 results are good! -
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Rubrik cashes in on cyber-resilience
Rubrik has scored a record top line in its latest quarter, as more customers buy into its cyber-resi ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protection/2026/03/13/rubrik-cashes-in-on-cyber-resilience/5209208
about 1 month ago
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Solidigm strikes out in new AI computer vision direction with Luceta -
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Solidigm strikes out in new AI computer vision direction
NAND fabber and SSD shipper Solidigm has unexpectedly entered the AI computer vision market with its ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/13/solidigm-strikes-out-in-new-ai-computer-vision-direction/5209197
about 1 month ago
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Lightbits and ScaleFlux demo 100x to 280x KV Cache acceleration -
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Lightbits and ScaleFlux demo 100x to 280x KV Cache acceleration
Lightbits Labs and ScaleFlux have produced a 100x to 280x speed up of KV cache workloads using Light ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/12/lightbits-and-scaleflux-demo-100x-to-280x-kv-cache-acceleration/5209158
about 1 month ago
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Qdrant pockets $50M to push composable vector search -
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Qdrant pockets $50M to push composable vector search
Open source vector database supplier Qdrant has raised $50 million in B-round funding, taking total ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/12/qdrant-pockets-50m-to-push-composable-vector-search/5209027
about 1 month ago
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VDURA pairs V5000 flash with WD Data60 and Data102 disk shelves -
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VDURA pairs V5000 flash with WD Data60 and Data102 disk shelves
Doubling down on its hybrid flash-disk storage concept, parallel file system supplier VDURA is tieri ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/disk/2026/03/11/vdura-pairs-v5000-flash-with-wd-data60-and-data102-disk-shelves/5208754
about 1 month ago
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Everpure stretches ActiveCluster to metro-distance DR for file workloads -
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Everpure stretches ActiveCluster to metro-distance DR for file workloads
Everpure is extending its ActiveCluster facility to provide disaster recovery across metro distances ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/03/11/everpure-stretches-activecluster-to-metro-distance-dr-for-file-workloads/5208887
about 1 month ago
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CTERA Fusion Direct unifies file and object access in single global namespace -
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CTERA Fusion Direct unifies file and object access in single global namespace
CTERA Fusion Direct provides a high-performance data fabric supporting file and object access to the ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/11/ctera-fusion-direct-unifies-file-and-object-access-in-single-global-namespace/5208865
about 1 month ago
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Cohesity builds guardrails for rogue AI agents and their data access -
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Cohesity builds guardrails for rogue AI agents and their data access
Cohesity says AI agent adoption is bringing new security risks to organizations and is introducing f ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/03/11/cohesity-builds-guardrails-for-rogue-ai-agents-and-their-data-access/5208908
about 1 month ago
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VAST Data raises $1B at $30B valuation as AI storage demand surges -
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VAST Data raises $1B at $30B valuation as AI storage demand surges
VAST Data has raised $1 billion in funding with more than half the cash destined for staff stockhold ...
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/03/11/vast-data-raises-1b-at-30b-valuation-as-ai-storage-demand-surges/5208106
about 1 month ago
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