Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of June 21; Updates from Cohesity, Qumulo, Western Digital & More
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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of June 21, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.
Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of June 21, 2024
Avaneidi Raises New Venture Capital to Help Enhance SSD Endurance
The company was formally founded in April by Milan-based CEO Dr Rino Micheloni, an ex-Microsemi VP and Fellow in its Flash Signal Processing labs. He left in March 2021, spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Ferrara, then went freelance as a senior tech exec before starting Avaneidi.
Boomi & Partners Launch First Enterprise Risk Framework for GenAI
Built in collaboration with over 1,000 business leaders, academics, and industry bodies, the Enterprise GenAI Governance Framework provides a detailed guide and comprehensive methodology for organizations of all sizes to assess their AI readiness, identify and manage enterprise risks associated with GenAI technologies, and move into responsible GenAI adoption.
Cohesity Unveils New Clean Room Design
The Cohesity clean room design allows organizations to build a “digital jump bag” of tools needed to create the MVRC using known-good software through Cohesity SmartFiles or Cohesity FortKnox. The design can be segmented into three stages (initiate, investigate, and mitigate) that allow organizations to understand the scope of an attack and recover clean data into production.
Pure Storage Updates Data Storage & Protection Platform
Pure Storage is introducing new innovations in the platform that help businesses accelerate successful AI deployments today, and future proof for tomorrow. The Pure Storage platform empowers organizations to unlock the value of their data with AI, while delivering agility to instantly scale capacity and performance up and down independently, without disruption.
Qumulo Releases Azure Native Version
ANQ acts as an intelligent data accelerator for the object store, executing parallelized, prefetched reads served directly from the Azure primitive infrastructure via the Qumulo filesystem to GPUs running AI training models. This innovative architecture improves GPU-side performance by accelerating load times between the object layer and the filesystem, fundamentally transforming how file-dependent AI training in the cloud should be architected.
Redgate Software Acquires DB-Engines
This strategic acquisition reflects Redgate’s commitment to providing the database community with unparalleled content, events, community websites, and market insights, with an increasing focus on supporting multiple database platforms.
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Trustwise Launches with $4 Million in Venture Capital Funding
Trustwise Optimize:ai is a first-of-its-kind generative AI application performance and risk management solution that provides developers with an API to eliminate risks and reduce the growing costs associated with deploying large language models (LLMs) in high-stakes enterprise environments.
Veritas Unveils New Data Insight Module
Veritas Data Insight offers in-depth data visibility, context and analysis across multi-cloud infrastructures to help resolve the cost, compliance and security risks associated with unstructured, dark and sensitive data. It also plays a key role in helping organizations respond to cyberthreats such as ransomware by highlighting security weaknesses before an attack
Western Digital Launches New NVMe SSD for Creators
The WD Blue SN5000 features Western Digital nCache 4.0 Technology, which allows the SSD to copy data and files extremely fast with the help of AI. The 4TB model also has 1,200TBW (Terabytes Written) endurance, this basically tells you that it will last a very long time, roughly to the point of writing 1,200TB worth of data over its life time before needing to be replaced.
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SR Thought Leader Eric Herzog Offers 5 Key Considerations for Buying Enterprise Storage in 2024
Enterprise storage is fundamental to maintaining a strong data infrastructure. While storage has evolved over the years, the basic characteristics remain the same – performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, capacity, flexibility, and usability. The rule of thumb in enterprise storage is: faster, cheaper, easier and bigger capacity in a smaller footprint.
New Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast with Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen
In this episode of The Insight Jam Podcast, Doug Atkinson chats with Sanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity. They discuss the key priorities at Cohesity, the challenges of cybersecurity, and the evolving landscape shaped by AI. Sanjay shares his experiences, the importance of cybersecurity hygiene, and his views on the AI revolution's impact on the workforce.
Insight Jam Panel of Experts Discuss the Essential Components of an AI Governance Framework
Our expert panel discusses the importance of establishing a robust AI governance framework within a company. They emphasize that data governance should be the foundation, ensuring transparency, ethical use, accountability, compliance, and risk management.
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