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DDN says Lustre-based EXAScaler remains central despite Infinia push
1+ week, 1+ day ago (625+ words) The Lustre Collective (TLC) says: "Our team helped invent Lustre in 2001, and was directly responsible for shipping every major release since 2003. TLC will keep Lustre open, free, and the fastest parallel file system on earth." It's tempting to see object-based…...
Agentic AI Is forcing analytics and operations to converge
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (494+ words) The past two years have seen an unprecedented wave of investment across the data platform landscape. Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce, and others have spent billions acquiring database and governance technologies. That spending is not incidental. It is a signal. We have…...
Qdrant pockets $50M to push composable vector search
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (198+ words) Open source vector database supplier Qdrant has raised $50 million in B-round funding, taking total funding to $87.5 million since its 2021 founding. Andr" Zayarni, Qdrant CEO and co-founder, said: "Many vector databases were built to only store dense embeddings and return nearest…...
Cohesity fortifies Identity Resilience for Active Directory and Entra ID
1+ week, 4+ day ago (287+ words) Cohesity has increased its Identity Resilience functionality to better protect Microsoft's Active Directory and Entra ID. Cohesity tells us identity is foundational to enterprise security, underpinning all access. Once they gain a user's identity credentials, attackers can "exploit misconfigurations, privilege escalation…...
Cohesity builds guardrails for rogue AI agents and their data access
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (340+ words) Cohesity says AI agent adoption is bringing new security risks to organizations and is introducing features to fend them off. Cohesity Identity Resilience'for on-prem Active Directory (AD) protection, plus Entra ID in the cloud, was announced in September last year....
LucidLink Connect streams S3 buckets without the ingest headache
2+ week, 6+ day ago (435+ words) Cloud file streamer LucidLink's new Connect product lets users hook up existing data stores, such as AWS S3, to its Filespaces domain, and then stream them in real-time to other LucidLink users without having to copy them into Filespaces first. Filespaces…...
Box pitches 'virtual filesystem' layer for AI agents
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (512+ words) AI-focused collaboration platform Box has a concept that AI agents need dynamic content-generating filesystems and not ones that are based on storing and retrieving static content. The Box idea, described in a blog, is that "a filesystem doesn't have to…...
Filecoin vets roll out distributed storage service on 'blockchain rails'
2+ week, 1+ day ago (448+ words) A group of Filecoin luminaries has raised $6.5 million to launch a compute agnostic distributed storage platform targeted at AI applications that will be free of egress fees, far more predictable on costs, and far more sovereign. Akave styles itself as…...
Druva uses graph relationships to mine metadata
2+ week, 1+ day ago (911+ words) We sent Druva VP of Product for AI, David Gildea, some questions to find out the answer. Blocks & Files: What was/were the triggers for using graph database technology to store Druva backup metadata? Other data protection suppliers didn't go…...
VAST broadens AI platform push with Nvidia tie-up and control plane
3+ week, 5+ day ago (663+ words) VAST Data has announced new self-learning AI OS software, Nvidia GPU-server hardware support, integrated CrowdStrike cybersecurity, a Polaris fleet management control plane, and a Cosmos partner program at its Forward customer conference. The rapidly maturing company is becoming an incumbent,…...