VAST Data Names Marianne Budnik CMO

New York  – September 20, 2023 – AI data platform company VAST Data has named Marianne Budnik chief marketing officer. She will lead all marketing functions including product marketing, field marketing, customer advocacy, communications and public relations, content, creative and brand strategy. Budnik has led marketing organizations for companies including CrowdStrike, CyberArk and CA Technologies, […]

Quantum Corp. Announces Pre-Configured ActiveScale Cold Storage Bundles

SAN JOSE, Sept. 13, 2023 – Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), an unstructured data storage company, today announced pre-configured bundles designed to simplify purchasing and deploying Quantum ActiveScale Cold Storage, an S3-enabled object storage solution architected for active and cold data sets. With the massive amount of data organizations need to retain for business and compliance […]

Panasas Appoints Ken Claffey CEO, Shea to Remain as COO

SAN JOSE, September 6, 2023 – High performance data storage vendor Panasas has announced that Ken Claffey, former SVP/GM of Enterprise Systems at Seage Technology, has been named CEO. Claffey replaces Tom Shea, who will remain on the Panasas executive leadership team as chief operating officer.

Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option

By Jeff Whitaker, VP Product Strategy and Marketing, Panasas The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT. This growth is not surprising given how […]

At ISC 2023: A DDN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI

At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company. A long-time HPC storage stalwart, many of the same challenges faced by HPC end users are now encountered by companies adopting AI – efficient access and transfer of […]

DDN Announces QLC SSD Storage for Generative AI, ML, HPC Applications

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – May 18, 2023 – Multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced what the company said is a major breakthrough for its all flash and hybrid storage solutions. DDN’s parallel file system technology, combined with AI and data center specific data compression, delivers the highest performance efficiency straight into generative AI, machine learning […]

VAST Data Achieves NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Certification

May 17, 2023 – VAST Data, a data platform company for AI, today announced it is now a certified datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, designed to provide organizations with scalable performance for machine learning and deep learning workloads, including generative AI. The company said the VAST Data Platform is the first enterprise network attached storage (NAS) […]

Swiss Vault Joins Active Archive Alliance

BOULDER, Colo., April 26, 2023 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Swiss Vault has joined the organization. The Active Archive Alliance is a collaboration of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that collectively support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management. “Active archiving technology is more relevant than ever as data is growing exponentially while its access, security […]

Azure-Native Qumulo Scalable File Service for Unstructured Data Storage Now Available

SEATTLE– April 18, 2023 – Qumulo has announced Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service is now generally available from the Microsoft Azure portal. Companies can provision the service on demand to power file-based workloads in the cloud that require high performance and low latency such as: video editing for media and entertainment; subsurface modeling for oil […]

Quantum Introduces Myriad, Software-Defined All-Flash Enterprise Storage Platform

SAN JOSE, April 3, 2023 — High performance data storage company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), maker of solutions for video and unstructured data, has announced Quantum Myriad, an all-flash, scale-out file and object storage software platform for the enterprise. The company said Myriad leverages advances in application frameworks and design that were not available even a […]