Storage

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Artificial Intelligence

BUZZ High Performance Computing partners with VAST Data for agentic computing and sovereign AI

September 11, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on BUZZ High Performance Computing partners with VAST Data for agentic computing and sovereign AI
BUZZ HPC, a Canadian Sovereign AI cloud provider, has standardized on the VAST AI OS to provide agentic computing and power Sovereign AI in its Canadian data centres.