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ExaGrid hits 4,800 customers, claims to lead indie backup vendors - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/07/e...

ExaGrid hits 4,800 customers, claims to lead indie backup vendors – Blocks and Files

ExaGrid has passed 4,800 customers and says it’s the largest independent backup storage provider behind the big primary storage vendors.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 2d

Geoff Barrall rides again - Quantum hires new Chief Product officer from Index Engines - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/07/q...

Quantum hires new Chief Product officer from Index Engines – Blocks and Files

Restructuring Quantum Corp has hired Geoff Barrall away from Index Engines to be its Chief Product officer, a new position, to lead product strategy, innovation, and engineering direction. The company...

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 3d

NAKIVO and its latest Backup & Replication software - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/06/n...

NAKIVO and its latest Backup & Replication software – Blocks and Files

NAKIVO has announced v11.1 of its Backup & Replication software and so we thought it would be. a good time to take a look at the company. It was started up in 2012 in the USA by CEO Bruce Talley and s...

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 3d

PEAK:AIO banks $6.8M to scale out AI storage platform - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/06/p...

PEAK:AIO banks $6.8M to scale out AI storage platform – Blocks and Files

PEAK:AIO has secured $68 million in seed funding to accelerate product development, expand its team, and forge partnerships for global growth.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 3d

Wasabi secures $32.5M to fuel AI storage push - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/06/w...

Wasabi secures $32.5M to fuel AI storage push – Blocks and Files

Cloud storage supplier Wasabi has raised $32.5 million and set up AI data storage facilities with export to external GPU compute.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 6d

Neo4j bids to take graph technology into AI's mainstream - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/03/n...

Neo4j bids to take graph technology into AI's mainstream – Blocks and Files

Graph database supplier Neo4j is offering its Aura Agent to help customers build and deploy agents on their own data in minutes, an MCP Server to add graph-powered memory and reasoning into existing A...

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 6d

Storage news ticker – October 3 - with Acronis, Adeptia, Blue Goat, CloudCasa, Databricks, Denodo, EverSpin, FADU, Fivetran, Google, Highpoint, HPE, Hydrolix, Kioxia/Sandisk, New Relic, Nutanix, Object First, PMC, Phison, Precisely, Quobyte, Samsung, and more - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/03/s...

Storage news ticker – October 3 – Blocks and Files

A roundup of smaller storage news items from the week featuring Acronis, Blue Goat, CloudCasa, Databricks, and more.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 6d

Clumio, MinIO expand Apache Iceberg protections and support - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/03/c...

Clumio, MinIO expand Apache Iceberg protections and support – Blocks and Files

Clumio is protecting Iceberg data in AWS while MinIO is adding Iceberg table support to its AIStor object storage software.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 6d

Greek satellite outfit Planetek picks Cubbit de-centralized for sovereign storage - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/03/p...

Greek satellite outfit Planetek picks Cubbit for sovereign storage – Blocks and Files

A Greek geospatial data company is storing its data on a Cubbit decentralized storage cloud for cash and sovereignty reasons.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 8d

Hitachi Vantara offers vSAN replacement for VMware migrants - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/01/h...

Hitachi Vantara offers vSAN replacement for VMware migrants – Blocks and Files

Hitachi Vantara is trying to attract wannabe VMware leavers by providing vSAN replacement with VSP One and vSphere with Red Hat OpenShift.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 8d

Infinidat doubles InfiniBox capacity with G4 refresh - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/01/i...

Infinidat doubles InfiniBox capacity with G4 refresh – Blocks and Files

Infinidat has updated its InfiniBox arrays with higher capacity, more drive slots, and new internal networking.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 8d

This is neat stuff - Cloudian launches HyperScale AI platform built on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs - blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/01/c...

Cloudian launches HyperScale AI platform built on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs – Blocks and Files

Cloudian has launched a HyperScale AI Data Platform, with its HyperStore object storage being the datastore for AI models on Nvidia hardware.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 9d

Why I can’t say whether to believe in AI or AGI - chrismellor.substack.com/p/why-i-cant...

Why I can’t say whether to believe in AI or AGI

Do I believe in AI, agents, an agentic AI future, and AGI? I don’t know. I’m not qualified to judge.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10d

Storage news ticker – September 29 with Airbyte, Backblaze, CData, Cloudera, Commvault, Couchbase, Databricks, Fivetran, Hitachi Vantara, Lenovo, OSI, PostgreSQL, Sentient, TrendForce, VAST Data, Veeam, VirtualZ, Weebit Nano - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/29/s...

Storage news ticker – September 29 – Blocks and Files

A roundup of smaller storage news items from the week featuring Airbyte, Backblaze, CData, Databricks, and more.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10d

VirtualZ and x86 server/public cloud mainframe bridging software - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/29/v...

VirtualZ and x86 server/public cloud mainframe bridging software – Blocks and Files

Two years ago we reviewed VirtualZ with its Lozen IBM mainframe data access and PropelZ mainframe data extract products. Now it has two more, FlowZ and Zaac, and is talking about AI and mainframe data...

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10d

Rubrik adds Okta protection to identity recovery lineup - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/29/o...

Rubrik adds Okta protection to identity recovery lineup – Blocks and Files

Rubrik can now protect and restore Okta Identity Provider (IdP) environments from automated and immutable backups.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 13d

Pure’s control plane gets more intelligent, more secure - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/26/p...

Pure’s control plane gets more intelligent, more secure – Blocks and Files

Control plane enhancements for Pure Storage arrays and software stack are enabling customer admins to manage and secure fleets of Pure arrays and cloud instances, and their workloads more effectively....

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 13d

Pure pushes performance and density with new FlashArray systems - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/26/p...

Pure pushes performance and density with new FlashArray systems – Blocks and Files

Pure Storage is making a large number of announcements at its Pure Accelerate 2025 event, subsumed under an Enterprise Data Cloud heading.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 13d

Quantum restructures debt as Raptor tape library secures Veeam Ready status - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/26/q...

Quantum restructures debt as Raptor tape library secures Veeam Ready status – Blocks and Files

Quantum is making progress financially and sales-wise with a debt for equity swap and Veeam tape library qualification.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 13d

Datadobi StorageMAP vs VAST's SyncEngine: Datadobi explains the difference - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/26/d...

StorageMAP vs SyncEngine: Datadobi explains the difference – Blocks and Files

We asked Steve Leeper, Datadobi VP of Product Marketing, about the differences between SyncEngine and StorageMap.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14d

Solidigm adds E1.S liquid-cooled variant to PS1010 SSD line - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/25/s...

Solidigm adds E1.S liquid-cooled variant to PS1010 SSD line – Blocks and Files

Solidigm has designed a liquid-cooled PS1010 SSD variant in E1.S format, enabling it to better support dense AI workloads.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14d

HPE storage growing quickly - thanks Alletra Storage MP - bigs up its IDC primary block AFA growth - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/24/h...

HPE bigs up its primary block AFA growth – Blocks and Files

HPE says it has the second largest share of the primary block part of the all-flash array (AFA) market, citing IDC numbers.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14d

Dell refreshes storage lines with QLC flash and beefed-up security - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/24/d...

Dell refreshes storage lines with QLC flash and beefed-up security – Blocks and Files

Dell has updated four of its block, file, and backup storage product lines, with higher-capacity SSDs and stronger cyber-resilience.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 15d

MemVerge unveils open source AI memory layer for LLMs - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/24/m...

MemVerge unveils open source AI memory layer for LLMs – Blocks and Files

MemVerge has launched an open source MemMachine software project to provide a cross-platform and long-context memory layer for LLMs.

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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 16d

Komprise launches AI-focused ingest tool to clean up unstructured data - blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/23/k...

Komprise launches AI-focused ingest tool to clean up unstructured data – Blocks and Files

Komprise has a generally available Intelligent AI Ingest product as part of its Smart Data Workflow ingestion engine.

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