US companies struggle with AI success due to data quality issues
US companies are failing in their AI data strategies, according to research by Hitachi Vantara. Nearly two in five (37 percent) US and Canadian organizations identified data as their “top concern” when...
View ArticleStorage 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 its...
View ArticleDatabricks edges toward $9.5 billion investment
Databricks is reportedly close to finalizing a $9.5 billion – or greater – funding round. The 11-year-old biz, which supplies a platform that combines data lakes and data warehouses, has grown revenue...
View ArticleDatabricks collects $10 billion in latest funding round
Databricks has attracted a $10 billion investment in a tenth funding round to pay for early investor and staff stock sales and allied taxes, new acquisitions, international go-to-market expansion and...
View ArticleKomprise grabs top unstructured data management spot
Research house Coldago has evaluated 17 unstructured data management suppliers and placed Komprise at the top of the tree. Coldago publishes various Research Map reports which score suppliers and...
View ArticleStorage 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 at the...
View ArticleScaling RAG with RAGOps and agents
COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. Whereas LLMs are typically...
View ArticleCloudian 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...
View ArticleCan synthetic data help scale AI’s data wall?
COMMISSIONED: As with any emerging technology, implementing generative AI large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy and it’s totally fair to look side-eyed at anyone who suggests otherwise. From issues...
View ArticleVAST 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 of...
View ArticleInformatica deepens Databricks dealings
Data integration and management supplier Informatica has strengthened the integration of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, including support for...
View ArticleAI data companies dominate new unicorn list from BestBrokers
Companies built around AI data systems dominate entrants to the latest unicorn list compiled by broking comparison site BestBrokers, with Databricks and WEKA mentioned. Unicorns are defined as...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – January 17
Data protector Acronis, with the support of MSP Littlefish, announced its latest #TeamUp Partner, the UK’s Brentford FC. The Premier League football club will use Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud including...
View ArticleCirrus Data extends block data moves with Red Hat integration
Block data mobility specialist Cirrus Data Solutions has forged a Red Hat integration that should help users improve the migration of workloads. Its Cirrus Migrate Cloud is now working with Red Hat...
View ArticleMariaDB adds vector search in Gen AI DB push
The open-source MariaDB database now has a vector search capability, allowing customers’ businesses to access a single, complete database supporting transactional, analytical, semi-structured, and now...
View ArticleStorage 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 Gateway...
View ArticleHow enterprise AI can ease the data gravity burden
COMMISSIONED: Among the many tough decisions IT leaders face is where to best host AI workloads. Whether you’re deploying traditional AI applications that predict supply chain performance or launching...
View ArticleGenAI, 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, similar to the arrival of...
View ArticleHitachi 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 its high-end,...
View ArticleStorage news ticker – January 24
Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry pipeline and intelligent observability,...
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