Re Acceldata’s chutzpah in announcing “the end of the data lakehouse era,” CEO Rohit Chouhury says "Acceldata looks at data where it is stored, and runs AI or data pipelines there – rather than trying to consolidate and centralise data, Acceldata works with the data where it is. Databricks announced something similar which it announced this week in Unity AI Gateway - you can select which AI model you use for a service or request, based on what it might cost to run. Everpure also announced its approach which seems similar -
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Commvault announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft whereby Microsoft will offer Commvault’s AI and cyber resilience technologies as a native ISV service on Azure. Azure customers can discover, provision, and integrate Commvault’s resilience capabilities directly from the Azure cloud platform. This eliminates the need for separate infrastructure, manual integrations, or external tooling for Commvault customers, enabling:
Enable resilient AI adoption: Deliver integrated recovery and resilience capabilities suited for AI-driven workflows on Azure.Deliver a seamless native Azure experience: Customers will be able to deploy and manage Commvault’s resilience capabilities alongside their existing Azure services through a consistent, integrated experience.Maximise Azure investments: Customers can purchase Commvault Cloud through the Microsoft Marketplace and apply usage toward their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).
Commvault and Microsoft will collaborate on joint go-to-market initiatives, including co-selling, solution development, and integrated sales motions designed to accelerate cloud journeys and customer adoption of cyber resilience on Azure. Commvault’s native ISV service on Azure is expected to enter public preview this summer. Learn more here.
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Data mover Fivetran announced UK consumer lender Oakbrook Finance has selected the company to centralise and govern data across its analytics estate, supporting real-time decision-making and AI‑ready data operations.
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Graid (GPU-powered RAID cards) says Corespan Systems published independent lab results validating SupremeRAID running GPU-accelerated RAID 6 over their photonic PCIe disaggregation fabric to determine whether a photonic PCIe transport could carry SupremeRAIDs out-of-path parity architecture without altering the behavior of any software component above it. Corespan recorded 43.3 GB/s peak read bandwidth; 1.35× its 32 GB/s target. There was 64.2 µs mean read latency / 117.2 µs p99.99 tail latency. 4K random reads at queue depth 1. Corespan's capability matrix targets sub-150 µs p99.99 under concurrent read/write stress; baseline results came in below that threshold. 1.42 million read IOPS from 4 drives. Lean more here.
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**IBM **Storage Ceph v9.9.1 offers IBM supported unified storage for File, Block and Object storage workloads alongside with new functionalities, features, updates, and further improvements. Find out more from a blog post.
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Bloomberg (paywall) says **Kioxia **plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips .
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Kioxia Corporation is pleased to announce the signing of a partnership agreement with the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and Asian Para Games Organizing Committee to support both the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 and the 5th Asian Para Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026. The Official Gaming SSD provider for the Games, Kioxia, will supply its fastest personal SSD, the EXCERIA PRO G2 SSD, ensuring an optimal competitive environment that will allow players to perform at their absolute best.
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Lenovo announced the expansion of the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with a portfolio of AI inferencing and agentic AI innovations designed to help organizations deploy AI agents faster, reduce token costs, and run AI economically from device to AI factory. Lenovo is expanding its Hybrid AI portfolio with new inference-optimized platforms. By combining Lenovo servers, storage, and Red Hat AI Enterprise into a validated architecture, organizations can deploy and scale private AI while maintaining security, governance, operational control, and cost efficiency across on-premise and hybrid cloud environments.
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Lightbits tells us that, when traffic surges during peak seasons like Black Friday, legacy SAN-based storage often struggles to scale horizontally, leading to latency and costly infrastructure bottlenecks. Global eCommerce leader Trendyol hit these exact boundaries and needed an infrastructure that could support high-frequency transactions and data-heavy AI engines without sacrificing user experience. By replacing rigid hardware limitations with Lightbits software-defined, NVMe/TCP block storage, they achieved massive business acceleration:
13X Performance Boost
Reduced the cost per transaction by more than 50%.
Smaller physical data center footprint with lower power and cooling costs.
Eliminated IOPS bottlenecks, allowing real-time AI personalization engines to run seamlessly across clusters.
Case study here. …
Data protector and DR supplier NAKIVO has signed a distribution deal with ICOS, a value-added distributor based in Bolzano, Italy. COS will sell NAKIVO's data protection solutions to IT resellers, system integrators, and managed service providers across Italy.
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Mac peripheral supplier Other World Computing (OWC) announced GA of its new line of OWC Atlas Core CFexpress 4.0 Type B 256GB memory cards with up to 3,571 MB/s read, 2,227 MB/s write, and 368 MB/s sustained write speeds going beyond the VPG200 certification. The card handles RAW burst photography, 4K video, and up to 8K compressed video without dropped frames. With OWC’s FREE Innergize software, users get built-in card health monitoring, performance restoration, and firmware updates so they stay confident shoot after shoot.
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Enterprise file services and data management supplier Peer Software’s PeerGFS v6.4 delivers broad performance advancements for real-time file synchronisation and scheduled replication for large data sets, including:
Greatly improved performance for both scheduled scan and real-time replication for SMB and NFS workloads
Enhanced resilience for large file transfer resumption on connectivity breaks across distributed sites
Upgraded auditing of configuration and management activity
Improved performance, reliability, and manageability of edge data management in distributed and bandwidth-constrained environments.
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**Samsung **has developed the industry's fastest Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 5.0 system. It integrates the latest embedded memory interface standard from JEDEC, achieving unparalleled performance levels with the industry's highest bandwidth of up to 10.8 GB/s. The card delivers a sequential read speed of up to 10.8 GB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 9.5 GB/s, speeds that are respectively more than twice as fast as those of the previous UFS 4.1 standard. Power efficiency in Samsung’s UFS 5.0 is also improved by more than 40% compared to the company’s UFS 4.1 product Samsung has designed a compact package measuring 7.5 mm x 13 mm x 0.9 mm — making it 16.7% smaller than its predecessor. Mass production will begin in Q4 this year in a variety of capacities up to one terabyte (TB).
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Object storage supplier Scality has a reimagined Scality Partner Programme designed to deliver greater value, stronger economics, and a clearer growth path. It rewards expertise, pipeline creation, and the ability to address three simultaneously fast-growing markets: cyber resilience, digital sovereignty, and AI infrastructure.
A new ‘Authorised’ tier: A lowered entry threshold facilitates the onboarding of new partners, with a structured progression path towards the Select and Elite tiers as skills increase and commercial engagement grows.Progressive tiered discounts: Partners who invest in certifications, technical upskilling, and co-generation of demand benefit from a significantly more advantageous economy. The discount difference between the Authorised and Elite tiers is substantially more pronounced than before, so that investment in Scality is always more profitable than a one-off transaction.Enhanced partner margins: Partners at every tier of the programme are eligible for enhanced margins.Strengthened deal protection: Opportunity registration is simplified and offers extended protection, allowing partners to invest in long sales cycles without risk. Developing a Scality account is now a secure investment.
The programme includes a strengthened training catalogue, with pathways for each partner profile:
Scality Certified Architect (SCA): In-depth technical training on RING and ARTESCA. Offered in local languages (English, French, German, and Spanish) in-person and on-demand every quarter. SCA-certified partners are authorised to qualify client needs and architect the most complex deployments.Scality Sales Certified: Sales training to position and sell ARTESCA for cyber resilience, secondary storage, and regulatory compliance use cases.ARTESCA Delivery Training: Technical implementation training for deployment teams.Scality ADI Certification Pathway: With the launch of ADI, Scality is rolling out a new training pathway dedicated to autonomous data infrastructure for AI.
The new Scality Partner Programme is available globally now. Existing partners will be transitioned into the new tier structure with support from their Scality channel managers. Prospective partners can learn more or apply at https://www.scality.com/channel-partners/.
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Bloomberg (paywall) reports SK Hynix is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds to build additional capacity .
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HCI supplier** StorMagic **said it and Supermicro will collaborate on virtualised infrastructure solutions for edge, ROBO and small datacentre environments. Supermicro’s compact edge systems are now available as a bundle with StorMagic SvHCI, lightweight virtualisation software, as part of its validated infrastructure solution portfolio. The combined setup gives business in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries a simplified path to deploying and supporting resilient, cost-effective virtualised IT infrastructure across distributed environments.
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Cloud storage provider Wasabi announced Wasabi Impact Circle, a sustainability initiative designed for partners and MSPs to help measure and address the carbon emissions associated with their customers’ cloud storage usage. Powered by Zero Circle, a sustainable finance marketplace, Wasabi Impact Circle enables partners and MSPs to help customers track their storage-related carbon footprint and purchase high-integrity carbon credits from curated, verified climate projects worldwide.
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Yugabyte has launched YugabyteDB 2026.1 and YugabyteDB AMP, a serverless PostgreSQL platform that gives every agent its own isolated database while scaling from prototype to production without rewrites. The release also introduces capabilities including in-database RAG, vector search, database branching, MCP 2.0, and Resource Governance to help organizations manage large fleets of agents more efficiently.
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Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team has a new multi-year partnership with Zscaler and will use Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform to secure the team’s data assets - from car design and race strategy to the real-time data flowing between the track and the UK-based Aston Martin Racing Technology Campus. Zscaler’s software will connect the race team and applications directly and securely, without exposing the network to attackers. Zscaler says it protects more than 45% of the Fortune 500.
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