Storage Ticker - 11 June

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Cohesity Patent No. 12,619,501 for technology underlying its Cohesity Gaia generative AI platform, covering a method that combines secondary data systems with a retrieval-augmented generation semantic layer. Separately, Confluent research found 59% of UK business leaders rely on "gut feel" for major decisions, with 82% feeling forced to choose between speed and accuracy and 71% saying information is often outdated by the time it reaches executives. CTERA announced an integration with n8n to connect enterprise file data to hundreds of applications and AI tools while maintaining security controls, and Datadog launched new products including Bring Your Own Cloud for processing data in customer environments.

Storage Ticker - 11 June Cyber-resilience supplier Cohesity announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO has granted the company Patent No. 12,619,501 for the foundational technology underlying Cohesity Gaia, its generative AI platform for enterprise data. Titled "Data Retrieval Using Embeddings for Data in Backup Systems" and issued May 5, 2026, the patent covers Cohesity's proprietary method of combining secondary data systems with a retrieval-augmented generation RAG semantic layer to power GenAI applications. … IBM-owned data streamer Confluent has research data showing that 59% of UK business leaders regularly rely on “gut feel” for major decisions: 82% feel forced to choose between making a quick decision and an informed one 71% say information is often out of date by the time it reaches the C-suite 61% believe real-time data streaming will become business-critical within a year Download the Confluent report here https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/fda98b114cda4f518575a0277407005d/3/5d04824476ae437f60f401260448cd1d6d1e0193a579f5aae07f84a032d10818?cache buster=1781099686 . … Cloud file services/data manager supplier CTERA announced a new integration with agentic workflow automation platform n8n . It enables organizations to securely connect enterprise file data to hundreds of business applications, AI tools, databases, and services while maintaining the governance, security, and control required for enterprise and public sector environments. This enables customers to build intelligent, content-aware workflows that leverage the full capabilities of the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform. Through native CTERA community nodes for n8n, agents and users can securely search, access, use, and manage trusted data within a CTERA enterprise data fabric that extends from edge locations and corporate offices to the cloud. … AI-powered observability and security supplier Datadog announced the launch of a set of new products, including the general availability of Bring Your Own Cloud, which deploys the Datadog platform into a customer’s own environment so that data is processed and indexed in their cloud object storage. Alexis Lê-Quôc, co-founder and CTO at Datadog, said: “To date, Datadog’s Bits AI has focused on investigating the root cause of issues. Now — with Bits Detection https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-detection , Agent Evals https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-evals/ , Infrastructure https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-infrastructure-operations , Code https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-code/ , Release https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-release/ , Data Analysis https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-data-analysis/ , Testing https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-testing-test-coverage/ and Chat https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits ai/bits chat/ — Bits AI is capable of truly autonomous operations, becoming a reliable teammate that operates across every stage of the production lifecycle and development loop.” … AI chip startup d-Matrix’ Corsair inference accelerator is now in full production, with products to begin shipping in volume to hyperscalers, neoclouds, and frontier AI labs. Agentic AI has pushed inference workloads beyond what GPU-only infrastructure was built to handle. Customers pairing Corsair with GPUs in heterogeneous clusters are seeing 10x faster token generation. Disaggregated computing techniques are increasingly being adopted by hyperscalers and frontier AI labs to slash response latency as well as the compute and energy costs that accompany GPU-only approaches. For disaggregated workloads, GPUs dominate the compute-intensive prefill portion of the workload, while Corsair excels at the decode phase. GPUs and Corsair accelerators operate in concert to deliver premium-level interactive AI experiences that individual users and enterprises are increasingly seeking and paying for. … Solid state AirJet Mini chip cooler Frore Systems is collaborating with Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator. Seshu Madhavapeddy, CEO and Founder of Frore Systems, said: “AirJet Mini removes thermal barriers, that have traditionally limited ultra-compact systems, allowing consumer products like super slim notebooks, tablets, and wearables to think longer, run faster, and operate in silence. We are excited to bring the many advantages of AirJet solid-state active cooling to some of Lenovo’s premium products, unlocking the new AI Thermal Stack that will enable the next generation of ultra-compact Edge AI devices.” … GPU-powered RAID card supplier Graid Technology announced VROC by Graid Technology, a rebranded and actively developed platform with a 24-month roadmap delivering new features, expanded platform support, and long-term investment for existing and future customers. Last October it entered into a strategic license agreement with Intel to take the lead in developing, marketing, selling, and supporting Intel VROC Virtual RAID on CPU worldwide. Intel VROC is a blend of hardware and software RAID storage, designed to maximize the performance of NVMe SSDs in high-end computing environments like servers and workstations. It has served as the CPU-based software RAID foundation for Intel-powered enterprise servers across Tier 1 platforms worldwide. The VROC by Graid Technology roadmap includes: Xeon 6 platform support - including Oak Stream Diamond Rapids - with no-cost upgrades for existing Intel VROC customers Hardware key elimination via UEFI licensing, simplifying procurement and lifecycle management New client and workstation capabilities co-developed with Tier 1 OEM partners SupremeRAID coexistence support, enabling CPU-based RAID and GPU-accelerated RAID on the same Xeon platform Tier 1 OEM partners Lenovo and Supermicro have endorsed Graid Technology's stewardship and contributed to the updated roadmap. Support for Intel VROC under Graid Technology is available today. VROC by Graid Technology branding and feature updates roll out through OEM and channel partners starting Q3 2026. … Hazelcast says It's no longer enough for a critical system to recover from failure; it has to stay correct while it's failing. DORA, OCC, BCBS 239 all codify some version of this now, and most enterprise data infrastructure wasn't built to meet it. Hazelcast Platform 5.7 features Advanced CP specifically built to support multi-data-center topographies. It has CP Auto Leader Step Down, CP Smart Client Routing Internal testing showed a 28% throughput improvement , and CP Map, making it a critical addition for topologies where manual recovery is not an acceptable answer. Hazelcast Platform 5.7 also includes: infrastructure change without downtime, evidence-ready observability, performance and modernization without forced migration, and Vector Collections with split-brain protection, which is now officially a release candidate. Read the announcement blog here https://hazelcast.com/blog/announcing-hazelcast-platform-5-7-release/ . … Hitachi Vantara announced new capabilities for Hitachi EverFlex, its flexible consumption model for enterprise data infrastructure, focused on improving simplicity and operational consistency. The new capabilities include: New contractual SLAs define outcomes across key operational areas: availability, performance, optimization, and recovery. Guarantees are designed to support continuous data availability for critical workloads. Service commitments can be tailored to specific customer operating requirements. Extended consumption models that allow customers to pay for only the infrastructure they need. Allows for alignment of actual usage with investment to improve predictability and optimize procurement via flexible CapEx and OpEx options. Continuous monitoring with VSP 360, a common control plane for usage visibility and SLA monitoring for Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One VSP One data platform, tracks service levels and supports internal governance and decision-making. … Hitachi Vantara announced findings from new research commissioned with FStech, revealing a critical infrastructure gap inside financial institutions: data growth is the top storage priority, yet few are building the foundations actually needed to manage it. Key findings from the survey of 100 global financial services decision-makers: 35% cite managing data growth as their top storage priority - yet only 10% are investing in AI-ready storage platforms, and just 9% are building the centralized data hubs needed for governance, AI/ML, and data reuse 65% choose object storage platforms based on cost - nearly 20 points ahead of resilience and availability 99% say data sovereignty concerns influence where they run AI workloads, and 19% say those requirements are actively limiting AI scalability and performance Get the full report here https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/gated-forms/how-financial-institutions-unlock-more-value-from-data-object-storage . … HPE has won an on-prem AI Factory bid with Japanese technology company S k y Co, .Ltd. S k y Co enforces strict data governance policies and exercises tight control over the use of public cloud AI services, yet AI-driven development remains essential. It chose HPE Private Cloud AI, an integrated, on-premises system co-developed by HPE and Nvidia, enabling the secure use of sensitive data for AI. It integrates servers, storage, networking, accelerated computing, services, and software into a single turnkey platform.S k y Co also adopted HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions, which enables the company to consume via a pay-as-you-go model, … SaaS data backup and recovery supplier Keepit has been recognised as TrustRadius Top Rated in four categories: SaaS Backup, Data Loss Prevention, Disaster Recovery, and Enterprise Backup. This recognition comes directly from verified customers, underscoring Keepit’s commitment to providing a secure backup and recovery platform to its customer base worldwide. … Next week, at HPE Discover 2026, Kioxia will highlight its contributions to HPE’s Spaceborne Computer missions, including projects aboard the International Space Station ISS and future lunar exploration efforts. Kioxia SSDs provide the high-performance storage capabilities required to support advanced scientific research and edge computing in extreme environments. … According to industry sources https://x.com/jukan05/status/2058031890754613493 , Kioxia is planning to begin mass production of 10th-generation 321-layer BiCS 10 NAND next year. BiCS 10 increases storage capacity per unit area by 59% and improves data transfer speed by 33% versus the prior 218-layer generation. … Lightbits Labs announced initial interoperability with the new Microsoft Windows Server NVMe-over-Fabrics NVMe-oF Initiator Preview. It’s available in Lightbits v3.19.1, and will enable storage administrators to deliver high-performance, native NVMe over TCP block storage to Windows Server Insider hosts over standard Ethernet once Microsoft releases it. The introduction of a native NVMe-oF initiator in Windows Server represents a significant shift for data infrastructure. By removing the need for legacy SCSI-based protocols or specialized hardware, organizations can achieve better application performance, lower storage overhead and improved scalability while using existing Ethernet. … Colo and BaaS provider DaSTOR is using Myota’s Shard and Spread technology to create sharded backup data fragments. When attackers get through perimeter defenses, the encrypted, sharded and distributed data fragments captured are meaningless and computationally impossible to reassemble, yet they remain immediately accessible to authorized users. Advanced mathematical techniques make it computationally impossible for attackers to reconstitute the sharded data while at the same time allowing data owners to instantly and completely reconstruct their data even if fragments are lost or unavailable. “Traditional backup models were built around redundancy and recovery,” said Jim Walker https://bebeb575.streak-link.com/C6pvtUg39yj2TJSOKAsbTcL8/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjim-walker-a99314%2F , CEO of Myota. “We are delivering a fundamentally more resilient and cost-effective model for data protection, one that combines ransom immunity, instant rewind capabilities, and lower storage infrastructure costs.” For more information go to: myota.io https://www.myota.io/ The enhanced DāSTOR Backup as a Service offering is available immediately to enterprise customers across healthcare, legal, financial services, manufacturing, government, and other data-intensive industries. … Graph database supplier Neo4j has agreed to acquire GraphAware to launch a sovereign, open-standards alternative to Palantir Gotham. The acquisition brings: A proven platform already used across law enforcement, defence, and counter-financial crime environments Graph-powered analysis that helps analysts connect fragmented data and uncover insights across investigations Proven results for high-stakes customers, like the U.S. Department of Defense and the Western Australia Police Force Neo4j’s $100M AI investment roadmap into focus, furthering its work on autonomous agents for high-stakes intelligence environments. … RelationalAI, an enterprise AI supplier announced a series of new capabilities for Rel, its agentic decision intelligence system that runs natively in the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. With these new capabilities, joint customers can give decision agents the context, reasoning, and post-training needed to take action across the operations that drive the bottom line, including pricing, supply chain, network operations, and resource allocation. … Three points about SK Hynix . 1 It plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August. 2 Its Kioxia holding, through the Bain Consortium, has seen almost 10trillion won $6.54 billion in valuation gains since it was first made. 3 Japan's Nikkei reports SK Hynix plans to nearly triple its wafer capacity by around 2034 to keep up with rising AI memory demand, according to Chairman Chey Tae-won. … SK Hynix-owned Solidigm announced new co-chief executive officers, Xin Guo and Richard Chin. Guo, named co-CEO in March, drives Solidigm’s global business strategy and execution across technology and engineering to deliver market-leading innovation. Chin assumed his role on May 1 and is focused on accelerating Solidigm’s performance and expanding its capabilities, sharpening business processes, and advancing the company’s growth trajectory. Guo previously served as acting co-CEO and Head of Data Center Engineering for Solidigm. Chin brings to Solidigm extensive SK Group experience where, among other roles, he started SK’s first venture capital operation for SK Telecom, led commercial integration of Hynix Semiconductors into SK, and served as Chief Sales and Marketing officer for SK hynix. … Starburst announced the Starburst Enterprise Intelligence Platform, enabling enterprises to run AI directly on governed data across distributed environments. Agentic integration is now happening across every layer of Starburst’s stack: Enterprise Intelligence Stack with Context Studio at its core: a governed data foundation purpose-built for agentic and AI workloads, generating ground truth federated from all metastores. AIDA: our Multi-Agent Conversation Interface with dashboarding capabilities, refreshing the BI motion with conversational, agent-driven analytics. Query and Cost Optimizer Agent: an agentic application built on AIDA primitives to automate cluster, cost, and query optimization. Galaxy BYOC: bring your own cloud, your way. Iceberg as default table format: the open lakehouse standard, baked in by default. Galaxy LakeOps: table maintenance automation for cost and query performance as Iceberg adoption scales. … Storage system supplier StorONE is using Myota’s Shard and Spread technology to reduce SSD data occupancy. StorONE’s Real-Time Tiering software automatically keeps only active data on flash while transparently placing inactive data on lower-cost media, enabling up to 9x more effective use of flash. Myota’s patented Shard and Spread tech encrypts data at write time and distributes cryptographic shards across independent storage locations. This ensures individual data fragments are independently meaningless and resistant to reconstruction, while still enabling seamless, real-time access for authorized users. Myota’s software delivers an extremely high level of protection against ransomware, data breaches and accidental data loss. Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE, said: “Our architecture was designed to minimize flash usage while maintaining enterprise performance. By combining StorONE with Myota’s Cyberstorage technology, organizations can achieve both infrastructure efficiency and the highest level of data security while maintaining full control over their storage infrastructure.” … TrendForce has ranked the top 5 enterprise SSD suppliers in 2026’s first quarter, saying rapid adoption of AI Agent services and strong procurement demand from CSPs drove enterprise SSD revenue to another record high in 1Q26; All have grown from Q4 2025, but SK Hynix/Solidigm has grown at the lowest rate. Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, Sandisk have all taken share from SK Hynix and its Solidigm subsidiary. TrendForce says: “Looking ahead, Solidigm is accelerating the transition to 240-layer NAND technology, while SK hynix has already begun development of next-generation 375-layer TLC products.” It notes: “the market experienced an exceptionally severe supply-demand imbalance during the quarter. Inventory levels at major suppliers fell to historic lows, while production output lagged far behind order growth. Vendors are aggressively raising prices to maximize profitability amid tight supply, driving enterprise SSD contract prices up by approximately 80% during the quarter.” And: “The capacity limitations and rising costs of DRAM are forcing the market to adopt high-performance SSDs as an alternative tier within the memory hierarchy as AI Agent workloads continue to grow. This architectural shift is expected to provide sustained momentum for the enterprise SSD market throughout 2026.” … VAST Data announced Australia’s Megaport, a supplier of network and compute as a Service, has chosen its AI Operating System for the next phase of its global AI infrastructure network. This will enable customers to deploy and scale AI workloads across distributed, hybrid and multi-cloud. Megaport has extended beyond automated connectivity into integrated compute and GPU services following its acquisition of Latitude.sh. Its private, programmable connectivity across more than 1,100 data centers, with Latitude.sh’s automated bare-metal compute and the VAST AI OS will result in a global services fabric designed to help customers rapidly deploy distributed AI workloads with greater performance, control and operational ease. VAST DataSpace extends Megaport’s platform with a global namespace, so customers can access and manage data consistently across on-premises, public clouds, neoclouds and edge locations without creating new silos or unnecessary copies. Watch a video https://www.vastdata.com/customers/megaport to find out more. … Cloud storage supplier Wasabi announced a multi-year extension of its sponsorship partnership with Liverpool Football Club LFC , deepening its role as the club’s Official Cloud Storage Partner. The renewed deal will see Wasabi help power the next phase of LFC’s global content strategy through Wasabi AiR, the intelligent media storage service, enabling the club to move faster, scale smarter, and deliver more personalised fan experiences that bring supporters across the world closer to the club. LFC serves as a strategic partner in Wasabi’s worldwide expansion, with brand visibility that grows Wasabi’s partner and customer bases in key markets across Europe, Asia, and North America. … Sovereign fully-managed AI edge provider Zadara , has joined the Open Cloud Coalition https://opencloudcoalition.com/ . This says it’s “a collaborative advocacy group of 27 cloud providers and users https://opencloudcoalition.com/membership/ promoting a diverse, competitive, and resilient cloud services industry across the UK, EU, and global markets. Bringing together innovators and business leaders across the cloud industry, our mission is to advance the principles of openness, competition, security, and reliability, ensuring that businesses of all sizes have flexible access to cutting-edge technologies in a competitive cloud market. If your organization uses or provides cloud services or cloud-related services, we invite you to collaborate with us.”