{"slug": "storage-news-ticker-6-november", "title": "Storage news ticker - 6 November", "summary": "Airbyte released an MCP Server for Airbyte Cloud and Airbyte Enterprise Flex that lets users query data in natural language from Claude or ChatGPT and use AI agents to monitor, diagnose and fix data pipelines, the connector supplier said. The server also exposes a new Airbyte context layer supporting direct queries on Snowflake and BigQuery destinations, with data synced from more than 50 Airbyte source connectors. The same ticker reported Ataccama's headless MDM in Ataccama ONE MDM 17.2, which lets AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex read and write master data through an MDM MCP server or REST API.", "body_md": "FLASH\n\n# Storage news ticker - 6 November\n\n…\n\nSource connector supplier Airbyte added MCP capabilities enabling users to chat directly with their data, and use agents and AI assistants to monitor Airbyte pipelines, diagnose and resolve issues. For users of [Airbyte Cloud](https://cloud.airbyte.com/) and [Airbyte Enterprise Flex](https://airbyte.com/flex), the MCP server also provides access to the new Airbyte context layer. The context layer supports direct queries on Snowflake and BigQuery destinations, with data synced from more than 50 Airbyte source [connectors](https://airbyte.com/connectors). Users can query their data warehouse in natural language from Claude or ChatGPT asking, for example, ‘what customer accounts have open support tickets? Airbyte users managing data pipelines are able to ask when a dataset last synced successfully, identify and fix broken syncs, create and modify data connections, and more. The Airbyte MCP Server is available now and you can learn more [here](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/airbyte-mcp).\n\n…\n\nArrow Electronics announced the availability of managed storage services for NetApp Keystone. Designed in conjunction with NetApp, the services help channel partners and managed service providers simplify the delivery of Storage-as-a-Service and consumption-based infrastructure while accelerating customer adoption. Arrow is the first distributor to offer such a service. Visit [this webpage](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arrow.com%2Fglobalecs%2Fna%2Fvendors%2Fnetapp%2F&esheet=54630682&newsitemid=20261029821448&lan=en-US&anchor=this+webpage&index=1&md5=9434b1a043adf4c0d70894e7e93cae5f) to learn more.\n\n…\n\nAssurestor is a UK channel-only backup and disaster recovery software company for MSPs. It's is launching Assurestor Platform, a management layer that runs five data protection engines from different vendors in one console for MSPs. It runs three ways: on Assurestor's infrastructure with licences included, over the MSP's own engine licences and infrastructure through APIs (no migration, no customer data held by Assurestor), or both side by side. Four Eyes approval for destructive admin actions applies across every engine, so a stolen login can't wipe a customer's backups on its own. Coverage spans Zerto DR including on HPE VM Essentials, Veeam, HYCU for 60+ SaaS apps beyond Microsoft 365, Cirrus Data for hypervisor-agnostic DR, and Asigra with bidirectional malware scanning and CDR. Mia, the AI assistant, answers questions across all engines and tenants, with voice in the premium tier. Learn more [here](https://www.assurestor.com/).\n\n…\n\n[Ataccama](https://www.ataccama.com/) has announced headless master data management (MDM) in Ataccama ONE MDM 17.2. Headless MDM enables AI agents and business applications to work with master data directly, through Ataccama's MDM MCP server or its REST API. The work happens where teams already operate: in AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex and in the business workflows that call MDM directly; because the MDM MCP server reads and writes back, agents can both bring trusted golden records into business processes  and take on stewardship work. Ataccama’s 17.2 release also introduces a new user interface reflecting operations done in a headless fashion. This enables automated headless agentic processes to assign a task for a human data  steward to approve, all while maintaining full auditability.\n\n…\n\nSynthetic DNA molecular computing pioneer AtlasBase announced the formation of its Advisory Board, bringing together leading genomics pioneers, molecular chemists, computational biologists, and enterprise infrastructure veterans to guide the commercialization of its Molecular Computing platform. As enterprise data demands accelerate and AI workloads strain traditional IT architecture, the board will work alongside AtlasBase leadership to advance platform development, commercial strategy, and the enterprise scaling of its Molecular Compute and Molecular Data Storage technologies in synthetic DNA.\n\n…\n\nActive data replicator Cirata, saying it's a data orchestration supplier, has signed a contract renewal with NatWest Group Plc for Cirata’s Data Migrator. The new term is for a period of two years. Total value is approximately $370k, marking an uplift from the previous contract value, with a requirement to move up to circa two Petabytes of data. CEO Stephen Kelly said: \"NatWest has been a Cirata customer since 2021, and the renewal provides a further validation of our relevance and expansion with existing customers.”\n\n…\n\nIBM-owned Confluent introduced a Streamhouse architecture, designed to give AI agents and applications access to real-time business information so they can make decisions based on what's happening now, rather than outdated data. It gives AI agents a consistent, up-to-date view of information across different systems, and is now generally available on AWS, allowing businesses to query live streaming data without moving it into separate databases. Accenture is already using this Streamhouse architecture, reducing its time-to-insight from months to days. Learn more in this [blog](https://www.confluent.io/blog/streamhouse-your-business-always-current/).\n\n…\n\nAccording to Counterpoint Research's Q3 2026 Global Memory Tracker, Samsung led the DRAM market with a 38% market share. SK Hynix posted stronger sequential growth, with revenue up over 40% QoQ, helping it recover some of the share it lost earlier this year. Micron also posted strong results on demand for AI data center memory but grew more slowly than Samsung and SK Hynix. CXMT's share slipped from 10% in Q2 to 9% in Q3. As rivals start shipping HBM4, which sells at a premium, from Q4, CXMT's share is likely to remain under pressure.\n\n…\n\nCybersnap.io is a cybersecurity platform focused on production-side Recovery Assurance — specifically helping organizations decide what can safely return to production after a cyberattack (especially ransomware). It connects to existing storage snapshots and runs layered scans:\n\n1. Triage Scan — Looks for suspicious signs at scale (mass file changes, ransomware extensions, high entropy, disguised executables).\n2. Threat Hunt Scan — Deeper content inspection using YARA-X rules and indicators of compromise.\n3. Forensic Scan — OS-level evidence (persistence, services, scheduled tasks, event logs) to show when activity began and how the attacker planned to return.\n\nCybersnap AI then turns these results into an explainable recovery picture: it summarizes findings, explains detections, maps affected components, detects anomalies, and suggests next actions. Learn more [here](https://cybersnap.io/).\n\n…\n\nDataHub, which says it's the company behind the most widely deployed open-source metadata and context platform, announced GA of DataHub Cloud Context that turn context management from a one-time setup into a system that continuously proves and improves agent accuracy. It has Domain-scoped Context Management, Cloud Context Evals, and Agent Feedback through MCP. Documentation for the guided playbook, which covers domain setup, eval configuration, and context generation, is available at [www.datahub.com](http://www.datahub.com).\n\n…\n\nData management supplier Datadobi has once again received its Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type I attestation covering its software engineering, quality assurance, security, operations, and  support processes, [following  an independent audit by KPMG](https://kpmg.bryter.io/s/wEstKqupRqOpUAw27LPLHw/atlas_automation_report_service_01_en?id=d717d618-865f-460c-83d1-9c9551ffa7ab&var=a&m=a). Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), SOC 2 is a widely recognized framework for assessing  how service organizations protect customer data. \n\n…\n\nDenodo, now calling itself an AI data layer company, announced Gartner has positioned it as a Leader, for the seventh consecutive year, in its Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.\n\n…\n\nDropbox announced near-zero revenue growth in Q3 2026; $637.3 million, up 0.5%. Co-CEO Ashraf Alkarmi said: \"Q3 was another beat-and-raise quarter, with revenue growth excluding FormSwift and non-GAAP operating margin both ahead of our guidance, marking our fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth excluding FormSwift.” Dropbox announced an agreement to acquire Tigris Data Inc., a globally distributed object storage platform, for approximately $350.0 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. Dropbox also launched the new Dropbox experience, which lets customers find, understand, create, and edit content directly in Dropbox.\n\nDropbox also announced a roughly 9% workforce reduction as the company looks to better align its cost structure and resources with its top product and growth priorities. CTO Ali Dasdan will also leave the company effective November 18 after serving in the role since January 2025.\n\n…\n\nEDB announced a preview of horizontal scaling for EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD), the distributed Postgres at the core of its EDB Postgres AI platform. With 86% of enterprise leaders expecting AI data systems to be critical within three years, the update focuses on scaling database write capacity to support growing demand from AI agents. The capability uses sharding to spread database updates across multiple groups of servers, similar to opening more checkout lanes at a busy store so one lane doesn’t have to handle every customer. General availability is planned for PGD 19 in February 2027.\n\n…\n\nProxmox Server Solutions announced Everpure has joined the Proxmox partner ecosystem as an official Solution Provider. Proxmox Virtual Environment is supported across the full Everpure FlashArray family of all-flash storage arrays.\n\n…\n\nSwitzerland's Infomaniak is launching S3-compatible object storage in its Public Cloud, for businesses and developers. Businesses can save their backups to this storage, then lock them for a period of their choosing. During that time, no one can modify or delete them. They can also keep a copy in a second data center in Switzerland simply by enabling this option. Developers can use the same storage for their application files, videos or AI data, with the tools they already use. Learn more [here](https://kdrive.infomaniakgroup.com/app/share/100338/a783cf90-d9a0-4e46-9c6b-7cef2b26271d).\n\n…\n\nLightbits Labs announced that Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH named it a Solution Provider and released a native storage plugin for Proxmox VE. The Lightbits open-source plugin connects Proxmox VE clusters to Lightbits [software-defined storage](https://lightbitssds.lightbitslabs.com/) over [NVMe/TCP](https://www.lightbitslabs.com/nvme-over-tcp/).  The integration gives organizations evaluating alternatives to VMware a way to deploy shared, high-performance block storage using standard servers and existing Ethernet infrastructure. [Lightbits SDS](https://lightbitssds.lightbitslabs.com/) disaggregated architecture enables independent scaling while delivering NVMe flash performance over standard Ethernet. It runs on commodity servers and replicates data across storage nodes to help maintain availability during drive and server failures.\n\n…\n\nThe Taipei Times reports Micron said it will freeze construction of its US$4.5 billion Taoyuan Fab 11E in Taiwan amid a protracted union dispute over profit-sharing. Taiwan officials pledged to continue mediating and said they back a deal between Micron and the bigger Taichung union.\n\n...\n\nMSP-focussed backup and services supplier N-able raised revenues 4.9% Y/Y to $137.5 million in the third 2026 quarter but made a GAAP loss of $4.4 million, a turnaround from the year-ago $1.4 million profit. The Q/Q revenue growth rate was -0.5%. It exceeded its third quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance. CEO John Pagliuca said: \"We delivered another quarter of profitable growth and our priorities moving forward are clear: keep innovating, keep sharpening our go-to-market execution, and give more businesses the resilience to withstand whatever comes next.”\n\n…\n\nData protection supplier NAKIVO reported 13% year-over-year worldwide revenue growth in Q3 2026, with its customer base growing 9% year over year, reaching more than 17,000 customers across 190 countries. The company’s largest deal during the quarter was valued at $238,140. A total of 165 new partners joined the NAKIVO Partner Programme during the quarter. The number of managed service providers (MSPs) working with NAKIVO increased 23% year over year.\n\n…\n\nNetApp has completed the acquisition of PEAK:AIO, a pioneer in next-generation metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file systems. With this acquisition, NetApp can leverage metadata services and parallel namespace innovations to power the fastest storage on the planet, NetApp Novus, to support zettabyte-scale file systems for the most demanding workloads of AI clouds and GPU-as-a-service providers.\n\n…\n\nNOL8 says its now-available AI Data Plane delivers data control to prevent sensitive information from entering AI workloads at scale. The platform inspects 100% of data flowing to AI and filters it so only policy-approved data reaches models, agents and tools. Millisecond-grade performance enables certainty without the penalty of latency while achieving more than 100x better TCO than traditional systems.It's available on AWS and through Megaport, with proof-of-concept engagements open on Equinix Fabric.\n\nIn third-party validated benchmark testing, NOL8 compared the NOL8 AI Data Plane with a CPU-based baseline built on Google RE2, a widely deployed pattern-matching engine, as the policy grew from 128 to 5,000 rules3. The NOL8 AI Data Plane sustained 1 GB/s across the full range, whereas the RE2 baseline's throughput fell 30-fold. At 5,000 rules, the NOL8 AI Data Plane delivered 118x more data per dollar. Learn more [here](https://nol8.io/).\n\n…\n\nProphecy, claiming to be the AI platform for business data work, today announced Prophecy DataGPT which lets business data analysts do complete data work, from onboarding messy files to publishing finished reports, inside ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. Every result comes with a visual data workflow that can be inspected and validated, and approved work ships as repeatable code on the data platform the organization already owns. Learn more [here](https://www.prophecy.ai/).\n\n…\n\nHigh-performance scale-out filesystem supplier Qumulo has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Workload Migration Program. This provides Qumulo with funding, technical support, and go-to-market support to help enterprises move unstructured data workloads from on-premises storage to AWS. Customers benefit from reduced migration timelines and costs as they move those workloads to Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS.\n\n…\n\nA **Samsung** patent has an AI malware checker running in an SSD’s controller that sends out an alarm when it detects rogue commands. The patent, US 2026/0350167 A1 filed on May 1, 2025,  says that “Ransomware information for the memory command is generated using a transformer model, where the ransomware information indicates a presence of a ransomware attack on the memory device.” Typically it will apply to NVMe SSDs. Incoming IO request sequences are tokenized and vectorized and their pattern matched against known malware patterns. Thanks to [Patentlyze](https://patentlyze.com/patent/) for this information.\n\n…\n\nScale Computing, describing itself as the pioneer and market leader in edge computing and network solutions, has appointed technology industry veteran Cooper Briscoe as Chief Marketing Officer. Based in Austin, Briscoe will oversee Scale Computing’s global marketing strategy, drive aggressive market expansion, accelerate adoption across the company’s comprehensive solutions portfolio, and deepen engagement with strategic channel partners worldwide. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Brivo, following a successful tenure leading global marketing at Eagle Eye Networks.\n\n…\n\nUltra-fast software-defined storage software supplier Simplyblock announced its Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver and operator have achieved Red Hat certification and are listed in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog. Together with the built-in business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities launched in September, the certification completes the storage blueprint for enterprises moving VM workloads from VMware and Nutanix to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: one certified storage layer that delivers the shared storage, live volume mobility, replication, failover and recovery VMware customers relied on vSAN, vMotion, Storage vMotion and Site Recovery Manager for, on standard servers they already own. \n\n…\n\nUnsiloed AI is a Y Combinator-backed AI infrastructure startup that turns complex unstructured documents (PDFs, slides, spreadsheets, scans, images, etc.) into clean, structured, LLM-ready outputs such as Markdown and JSON. It uses proprietary vision-first, layout-aware models (including a dual-stream vision-language model architecture) that understand both content and visual structure. Key capabilities include:\n\n- Layout-aware parsing — Converts documents into hierarchical Markdown while preserving reading order, tables, figures, headers, and visual hierarchy.\n- Schema-based extraction — Pulls structured key-value data according to a custom JSON schema, with word-level citations, bounding boxes, and confidence scores for traceability.\n- Classification / splitting — Breaks large or multi-document files into logical sections or categories.\n- Support for 20+ formats (PDFs, PPTX, DOCX, Excel, images, scans, etc.).\n\nThink of it as old-style document scanning reinvented through AI.  Unsiloed AI positions itself as the infrastructure layer that sits before your LLMs or agents, solving the hard problem of making messy real-world documents reliably usable at scale. Check it out [here](https://www.unsiloed.ai/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-6-november", "canonical_source": "https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/11/06/storage-news-ticker-6-november/5308146", "published_at": "2026-11-06 15:16:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-06 17:27:21.652507+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Airbyte", "Airbyte MCP Server", "Airbyte Cloud", "Airbyte Enterprise Flex", "Snowflake", "BigQuery", "Claude", "ChatGPT"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-6-november", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-6-november.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-6-november.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-6-november.jsonld"}}