# Storage News Ticker - 21 August > Source: > Published: 2026-08-21 09:44:00+00:00 PUBLIC CLOUD # Storage News Ticker - 21 August **Nutanix** has struck a partnership deal with neocloud [ChronoScale](https://chronoscale.com/), which will see the two firms work together on delivering AI infrastructure for enterprises. The GPU as a service firm will “leverage Nutanix software within its AI infrastructure platform” to deliver a broader range of “accelerated compute and AI services.” Nutanix’ software will help support “customer onboarding, tenant management, service automation, virtualised infrastructure, managed Kubernetes environments, and advanced AI service offerings.” At the same time Nutanix will enable deployment of ChronoScale Foundry. **SANDISK** has unveiled a brace of high-endurance SSDs aimed at challenging modern network attached storage environments. The [SANDISK 600 SATA SSD](https://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/internal-ssd/sandisk-nas-600-sata-ssd?sku=SDSNS2500GAB-000G0) comes in capacities from 500TGB to 4TB and is pitched at creative pros and small businesses. The [SANDISK NAS 800 NVMe SSD](https://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/internal-ssd/sandisk-nas-800-nvme-ssd?sku=SDSNP2960GAN-000E0) is pitched at demanding or business critical workloads, and packs between 960GB to 7.68TB. The devices will be available from September. **Lucidity** has announced support for object storage in its [Lucidity Platform](https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2025/09/10/lucidity-turns-spotlight-onto-kubernetes-storage-costs/1615079), holding out the promise of more efficient cloud storge management in the face of demanding AI workloads. The firm argues that storage is the “second largest item on the cloud bill” while object storage is the fastest growing category. Lucidity said its platform will focus on object mapping, drift and tiering, to uncover waste and excessive costs. It reckons its data driven recommendations can reduce misconfigurations and “hot tier waste” by up to 90 percent, and overall object storage costs by up to 60 percent. [Research](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoderndatacompany.com%2Fresources&esheet=54591763&newsitemid=20260819494251&lan=en-US&anchor=here.&index=4&md5=7c4198a8d6797ddebb34689c06ffdcd1) from the **Modern Data Company** shows that more than one in ten organizations don’t actually trust their agent data. Or put another way, the data foundations are failing to keep up with the march of AI agents. Just over a third of companies are piloting agents in data and analytics workflows, with just under a quarter in production. But a lack of data trust is one of the issues holding back moving projects from pilot into production. Even among those companies running agents in production, just 21.7 percent were “very confident” their data was trustworthy enough for production. The market for datacenter physical infrastructure will grow at 22 percent CAGR between now and 2030 to hit $120bn by 2030 **Dell’Oro Group** has predicted. However, not all regions will share this bounty, with the projection for Europe actually retreating since the analysts’ last update in January while the US and China power ahead. The firm said the growth was driven by “net additions” to capacity, while the infrastructure content per megawatt will be tempered as “higher-density and liquid-cooled architectures redistribute spend across DCPI categories”. This year will be the peak of “net capacity additions,” the firm said, though additions will continue to reach double digits in the years ahead. Alex Cordovil, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group, said: “Demand is no longer the open question - delivery is. Equipment lead times, construction labor, grid interconnection, and community consent all remain constrained, especially with the first statewide datacenter moratorium now in force.” **Cloudera** has launched its Anywhere Cloud, a platform for “building, deploying, and scaling production-grade data and AI applications across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.” The platform is designed to operate on its own, or as a complement to existing “massive data lakes,” delivering a unified “cloud experience” wherever the data resides. The company promises “push-button” simplicity and cloud-native agility, with the data firm’s own agentic copilot helping to automate workflows and launch AI capabilities without moving data. The company is pitching the platform at private or sovereign AI deployments, as well as those juggling public clouds, sovereign infrastructure, and on-prem. Resilience specialist HYCU has named Anant Chintamaneni as chief product officer, with a brief to accelerate its AI resilience strategy. Over the last 20 years, Chintamaneni has served stints with Pivotal, BlueData, HPE and most recently, Google Cloud, where he was director of products for Google Cloud Platform. According to his LinkedIn profile, while at Google he “infused migration and modernization workflows with GenAI.” Earlier gigs also included NICE Systems, and Lawson Software. The company said that following the launch of HYCU’s [aiR](https://www.hycu.com/platform/air) platform earlier this year, Chintamaneni would be leading the next phase of the firm’s product strategy.