Data Storage stories
Investor demand for private AI software remains strong as Databricks hits a USD $7 billion revenue run-rate and a USD $190 billion valuation.
Rising AI infrastructure spending lifted storage sales 45% at the Hitachi unit, helping offset complexity worries for corporate IT teams.
Governance and infrastructure are blocking AI scale-ups, with 95% of enterprises delaying or cancelling projects, Cloudera said.
The agreement could lift revenue from fiscal 2028 as cloud operators seek denser, more power-efficient storage for AI-heavy data centres.
Stronger demand in data centres and storage helped Iron Mountain swing to a profit and lift full-year guidance after a record quarter.
Rising storage demand and ransomware fears are driving the agreement, giving partners in Singapore and Malaysia access to Wasabi cloud products.
AI-driven demand for recoverable cloud data is pushing the backup vendor to deepen its US sales push as business spending rises.
The tie-up aims to cut AI storage costs by shifting older training data off premium systems without losing access for retraining or compliance.
Ransomware-prone operators could cut integration costs as ATLAS pitches a single storage-and-security system to foreign buyers in Yekaterinburg.
Demand for data management and AI services is rising in Australia and New Zealand, and Iron Mountain has hired Dominic Del Giudice to capitalise.
The tie-up should lift Vault365's UK revenue by 20% in 12 months as regulated sectors seek on-site backup amid ransomware fears.
Businesses could cut AI data-handling costs sharply as NetApp adds DataPelago's zero-copy processing to its storage platform.
Ransomware recovery plans must now verify data integrity, as AI helps attackers move faster across connected systems, Index Engines says.
Lower entry prices for small businesses and home users come as the new models keep 2.5GbE, SSD caching and upgrade options.
Rising telemetry costs are pushing security teams to rethink SIEM spending, after a study found Gravwell users recouped costs in under six months.
Many New Zealand firms say they could ride out an outage, but fewer than four in ten have tested recovery of critical systems recently.
The move gives the energy and broadband group more capacity and backup resilience as it shifts disaster recovery off site and into a Tier 3 facility.
Drivers could gain stronger privacy rights as AEVA urges laws to keep connected car data onshore and off by default.
Schools could speed responses to threats as existing cameras feed verified alerts into panic systems, without replacing hardware.
Tight power supply and scarce industrial sites could slow the capital's push to host more secure cloud and AI facilities.
