Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal data operations) unstructured and third-party data with its AI-powered Adeptia Connect software. In the past year, it has hired Charles Nardi as CEO, Geoff Mueller as COO, and Ross Trampler as VP Sales. Deepak Singh, Adeptia founder and CTO, has moved into the new role of Chief Innovation Officer. Adeptia received a $65 million strategic growth investment round led by PSG in March 2023. Alluxio, supplier of open source data store virtualization software using a virtual distributed file system with multi-tier caching, announced a strategic collaboration with the vLLM Production Stack, an open source implementation of a cluster-wide full-stack vLLM serving system developed by LMCache Lab at the University of Chicago. AI inference requires low-latency, high-throughput, and random access to handle large scale read and write workloads. This partnership aims to help large language model (LLM) inference by providing an integrated solution for KV Cache management, utilizing both DRAM and NVMe, enabling efficient KV Cache sharing across GPU, CPU, and a distributed storage layer. By optimizing data placement and access across different storage tiers, the solution delivers low-latency, greater scalability, and improved efficiency for large-scale AI inference workloads. Italy-based Avaneidi launched ‘CyberStorage by Avaneidi, a scalable and reliable storage infrastructure that seamlessly combines tailored Secure Hardware Storage, proprietary Data Governance and advanced CyberShield into one unified platform.’ Avaneidi has introduced a new proprietary SSD, fully designed and manufactured in Europe, which it claims sets new standards for performance, durability, and reliability. The ESSD, codenamed Goldrake, comes in an AIC HHHL format with an NVMe PCIe gen 3 x4 interface. Capacities are 2TB, 3.84TB and on up to 16TB. It delivers 550,000/310,000 random read/write IOPS and has 2.5GBps/1.5GBps sequential read/write bandwidth. The endurance is 2 DWPD read-intensive and 5 DWPD write-intensive with a 5-year warranty. Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze is partnering with media workflow designer CHESA to help M&E professionals collaborate anywhere by breaking down geographical barriers and connecting creative teams worldwide, leveraging Backblaze’s cloud infrastructure and CHESA’s workflow design. The two say they are ‘partnering with leaders in the M&E space, like LucidLink, iconik, and many others to offer a unified ecosystem that caters to every stage of the creative process.’ Cloud file services vendor CTERA announced the availability of CTERA Edge-to-Cloud File Services in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Powered by Azure, CTERA gives ‘organizations cloud-native file services that extend from edge to cloud, offering enhanced availability, cyber resiliency, and scalability, while significantly reducing costs’ with continuous data protection to Azure Blob Storage and global file access. Vector databases supplier DataStax announced Astra DB Hybrid Search, a product that will improve AI search relevance by 45 percent. Using Nvidia NeMo Text Retriever reranking microservices, part of Nvidia AI Enterprise, Astra DB Hybrid Search, hosted on Astra DB with GPUs, integrates vector search and lexical search to deliver highly accurate, AI-driven search and recommendation experiences. Cloud backup supplier Eon ‘launched the first cloud-native package to provide protection and recovery from ransomware attacks.’ Engineered for immediate recovery, it restores clean data in minutes, as opposed to hours or even days. HPE reported $7.9 billion revenues for its Q1, up 16 percent year-over-year, with a $627 million GAAP profit, compared to the year-ago $387 million. CEO Antonio Neri said: ‘HPE achieved our fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, increasing revenue by double digits in Q1.’ MagStor announced ‘the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive, marking a monumental step forward in data storage technology.’ It ‘offers unprecedented speed, reliability, and compatibility for professional data backup and archival needs’ and is expected to be available by the end of 2025. Micron says it’s the world’s first and only memory company shipping both HBM3E and SOCAMM (small outline compression attached memory module) products for AI servers in the datacenter. MSP backup service and cybersecurity supplier N-able announced disappointing Q4 FY 2025 revenue growth up only 0.1 percent sequentially and 7.5 percent year-over-year to $116.4 million with a $3.3 million GAAP profit. Nutanix says its Cloud Platform with Nutanix Unified Storage will integrate with the Nvidia AI Data Platform and enable inferencing and agentic workflows deployed across edge, datacenter, and public cloud. Silicon Motion announced sampling of its MonTitan SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK) that supports up to 128 TB with QLC NAND, incorporating Silicon Motion’s PCIe Dual Ported enterprise-grade SM8366 controller, which supports PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe 2.0 and OCP 2.5. SK hynix is sampling 12-hi 36 GB HBM4 DRAM with mass-production slated for the second half of this year. StorPool Storage says it’s among the first block storage software platforms to support the Arm-based Ampere Altra processors available in HPE ProLiant RL300 servers, providing fast and reliable cloud solutions at a significant cost savings. DDN’s Tintri subsidiary with its workload-aware, AI-powered data management offering announced its latest Geek Out! Technology Demo Session ‘Container Boys: Hello Tintri’ taking place on Wednesday, March 26 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Western Digital has hired Ahmed Shihab as chief product officer. Open source backup supplier Zmanda has introduced its Ask Zmanda AI support assistant, pre-loaded with enterprise backup expertise to help users get immediate answers when troubleshooting a backup issue or exploring advanced configurations.

Storage news ticker – March 21

This article covers several updates in the storage and data management industry, including strategic investments, partnerships, and product launches. Companies like Adeptia, Alluxio, Avaneidi, Backblaze, CTERA, DataStax, Eon, HPE, MagStor, Micron, N-able, Nutanix, Silicon Motion, SK hynix, StorPool, and Western Digital have been making significant moves to enhance their offerings and market positions.