Data Storage stories

Scality names Greg DiFraia as senior vice president to expand AI partnerships and support enterprise deployments across its global ecosystem.

MacPaw Earth Day survey finds 71.7% of Mac users would clear cloud files more often if they knew the environmental cost.

NetApp expands Google Cloud storage partnership with Flex Unified availability and Gemini Enterprise adoption, as it wins a 2026 partner award.

Avid and Google Cloud have struck a multi-year deal to embed Gemini and Vertex AI into Media Composer and Content Core, speeding archive search and editing.

SkoolBooks rolls out across New Zealand and Australia, offering schools a classroom platform with local data hosting and real-time parent engagement.

Western Digital says emissions intensity from customer use of its drives is down 31%, while a rare-earth recovery pilot hit a 90% capture rate.

Hitachi Vantara has unveiled sustainability progress as AI-driven data demand pushes energy, cooling and emissions reporting to the fore.

Dell rolls out PowerMaxOS 10.4 with ransomware detection, faster VMware migrations and expanded support for OpenShift and Fibre Channel SANs.

Wasabi lands USD $250 million Bain-led credit line to fund cloud storage expansion, AI-ready infrastructure and overseas growth.

Peer Software deepens channel push with enhanced Partner Programme, adding incentives, training and a file analysis tool for hybrid environments.

OWC unveils Thunderbolt 5 RAID enclosure for DIY NVMe drives, targeting 8K workflows with up to 32TB capacity and 6622MB/s speeds.

Commvault broadens Flex support with Hitachi Vantara and NetApp as enterprises seek scalable cyber recovery for AI-heavy storage demands.

Cohesity names Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader for Asia Pacific and Japan, sharpening its regional push in data security and cyber resilience.

Kyndryl rolls out a new sovereignty advisory and managed service to help firms control data, systems and AI across complex IT estates.

Backblaze appoints Anuj Kumar as Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate AI-focused growth, as B2 Cloud Storage expands with neocloud demand.

Hitachi Vantara wins GigaOm Leader and Fast Mover status for VSP One Object as AI-driven demand reshapes enterprise storage priorities.

Wasabi to take over Seagate's Lyve Cloud as David Friend's company expands enterprise storage reach and Seagate shifts back to hardware.

Dynatrace agrees to buy Bindplane to expand telemetry pipelines, aiming to cut ingest costs and give customers greater control over observability data.

ExpressVPN expands beyond VPNs with encrypted AI chats, launching ExpressAI on confidential computing enclaves after an audit by cybersecurity firm Cure53.

Microsoft and Victoria University have launched a fee-free Datacentre Academy in Footscray to train Victorians for in-demand technical roles.