Storage

Artificial Intelligence

Druva announces powerful AWS workload protection, exceeds $100 million in ARR

December 3, 2025 Mark Cox 0
In addition to surpassing $100 million in ARR for the first time, Druva added new AWS backup capabilities and launched a new integration with Crowdstrike.

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Hyper-converged

StorPool Storage launches all-in-one software-based HCI solution integrated with Oracle Virtualization.

November 19, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorPool Storage launches all-in-one software-based HCI solution integrated with Oracle Virtualization.
The StorPool next-gen HCI Software Stack has multiple advantages over VMware and its integration with Oracle Virtualization is positioned as an alternative to it.

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Cloud

Bitdefender launches GravityZone Security Data Lake to extend unified Bitdefender platform by adding SIEM to Data Lake

November 11, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bitdefender launches GravityZone Security Data Lake to extend unified Bitdefender platform by adding SIEM to Data Lake
The new GravityZone Security Data Lake offering combines SIEM and Data Lake capabilities into a single cloud-delivered solution, which unifies security telemetry, including third-party logs, from endpoints, networks, and clouds, to provide better threat detection, greater visibility, and faster response.

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Data Centre

D&H Canada reignites with Dell  to expand line card with Dell solutions and services

November 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on D&H Canada reignites with Dell  to expand line card with Dell solutions and services
The revival of an old strategic partnership between D&H and Dell reflects the distributor’s desire to expand their line card and to invest in advancing partner growth.

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APIs

Backblaze research notes hidden cost of cloud object storage fees

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Backblaze research notes hidden cost of cloud object storage fees
95% of organizations report surprise cloud storage fees, as rising egress costs reshape infrastructure strategies and drive demand for transparent alternatives.

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Artificial Intelligence

Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities

October 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities
VergeOS 26 modernizes infrastructure while VergeIQ, integrated within it, has features like shared LLM, OpenAI-compatible services, vendor-agnostic GPU support, and generative AI intelligence.

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Agent

Dell releases AI data platform advancements

October 21, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell releases AI data platform advancements
, Dell Technologies is announcing Dell AI Data Platform advancements designed to help enterprises turn distributed, siloed data into faster, more reliable AI outcomes

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Artificial Intelligence

NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads
The two big enhancements, both new, are exabyte-scale AFX systems with disaggregated storage, and an AI Data Engine built with NVIDIA, both of which deliver on NetApp’s AI vision.

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Agent

NetApp deepens partnership with Google Cloud by adding block storage

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp deepens partnership with Google Cloud by adding block storage
While there are other changes broadening the Google relationship, the big one is that flexible and powerful block storage is now available in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, along with even greater AI integration for enterprise transformation.

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Artificial Intelligence

NetApp adds more capabilities to ransomware protection

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp adds more capabilities to ransomware protection
NetApp has rebranded its anti-ransomware offer, and also embeds its data breach detection into enterprise data storage

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Channel Communities

Hitachi Vantara, Red Hat partner to combine Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi Vantara VSP One

October 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara, Red Hat partner to combine Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi Vantara VSP One
In the latest installment of an alliance between Red Hat and Hitachi Vantara, the companies announced a new solution that combines Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, to make it easier for customers to adopt a unified, hybrid cloud platform.

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Artificial Intelligence

Auvik’s new CTO Dan Zaniewski lays out his plans

October 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik’s new CTO Dan Zaniewski lays out his plans
Auvik has promoted Dan Zaniewski to Chief Technology Officer from his previous role as Senior VP of Engineering. His job is to advance Auvik’s technical leadership in the growing network management and IT operations sectors, and leverage his deep expertise in product engineering in the MSP channel and security spaces to accelerate Auvik’s AI adoption, cybersecurity, and cloud strategies.

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Agent

VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VDURA names Garth Gibson Chief Technology and AI Officer to reinvent storage stack for AI era
Garth Gibson, who has a well-regarded history around AI and HPC, discusses his vision about where VDURA and technology in general are going, as well as the likely impact on VDURA’s channel partners.

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Backup

Seagate, Acronis partner to deliver S3 compatible Acronis Archival Storage

September 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Seagate, Acronis partner to deliver S3 compatible Acronis Archival Storage
Seagate and Acronis will ally so that Acronis will incorporate Seagate’s S3-compatible  Lyve Cloud Object Storage into its archival storage offerings to help MSPs deliver seamless, cost-effective, and compliant storage.

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Artificial Intelligence

Pure Storage adds new AI and cloud innovations to platform

September 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage adds new AI and cloud innovations to platform
Cyber Resilience has been expanded with a flood of new and expanded partnerships through companies like CrowdStrike, Superna, Veeam, Microsoft Azure, Portwork, and NVIDIA, as well as major innovation from Pure such as the next-gen FlashArray portfolio.

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Artificial Intelligence

VDURA partners to launch first scalable AMD Instinct GPU reference architecture

September 26, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VDURA partners to launch first scalable AMD Instinct GPU reference architecture
The new reference architecture combines VDURA V5000 Storage with AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators to overcome data bottlenecks and simplify deployment at scale.

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Channel Communities

Exabeam and Cribl extend partnership by integrating Exabeam platform with Cribl Stream

September 25, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Exabeam and Cribl extend partnership by integrating Exabeam platform with Cribl Stream
The partnership advances an outcome-driven data strategy, decoupling security outcomes from data volume, and powering scalable, high-fidelity threat detection with next-gen data pipelines.

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Artificial Intelligence

Dell makes major storage announcements on product, integration and private clouds

September 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell makes major storage announcements on product, integration and private clouds
Dell unveiled new PowerStore and PowerMax QLC models, a new Dell PowerFlex Ultra release, both high end and entry level Data Domain product, an extended Nutanix partnership, and new strength around their Private Cloud and Native Edge offerings.

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Artificial Intelligence

VergeIO, Cirrus Data partner to eliminate infrastructure sprawl

September 18, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on VergeIO, Cirrus Data partner to eliminate infrastructure sprawl
The collaboration combines Cirrus Data’s patented software-only data mobility technology with VergeOS, the industry’s only single-codebase infrastructure operating system for virtualization, storage, networking, and AI.

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Cloud

Exascale object store vendor MinIO announces AIStor pods through Arrow

September 12, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Exascale object store vendor MinIO announces AIStor pods through Arrow
The AIStor-powered pod solutions to deliver solutions designed for private cloud modernization are now available exclusively through Supermicro, which will be followed up with Dell.

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