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The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…

MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStor

MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. Read more…

Meet Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch

The rise of AI has highlighted the need for a new generation of storage solutions that combine compute, software, and services. One of the company's developing such a system is VAST Data, which has quickly established it Read more…

The AI Data Cycle: Understanding the Optimal Storage Mix for AI Workloads at Scale

While AI is transforming lives and inspiring a world of new applications, at its core, it’s fundamentally about data utilization and data generation. As the AI industry builds-out a massive new infrastructure to tra Read more…

Legacy Data Architectures Holding GenAI Back, WEKA Report Finds

While large language models (LLMs) have kickstarted an exciting new phase in AI, companies are not able to satisfy their GenAI goals due to several factors, with poor quality data and legacy data architectures chief amon Read more…

News In Brief

As Security Teams Drown in Data, LakeVilla Offers a Lifeline

“Security teams shouldn’t have to choose between overspending for speed or losing access to what they store.” That’s how Abstract Security’s COO Chris Camacho put it, and he’s not wrong. As data piles up and Read more…

Couchbase to Be Acquired by Haveli in $1.5 Billion Deal

Enterprise tech teams face a familiar dilemma. They need to simplify their data stacks without giving up speed, flexibility, or scalability. Many tools focus on solving a single part of the problem but leave gaps when sy Read more…

Pure Storage Unveils Enterprise Data Cloud to Unify Storage and Data Management

At this year’s Accelerate event in Las Vegas, Pure Storage laid out an ambitious direction for enterprise infrastructure. The company is building on its reputation for high-performance storage with a broader focus on u Read more…

WEKA Launches NeuralMesh to Serve Needs of Emerging AI Workloads

WEKA today pulled the cover off its latest product, NeuralMesh, which is a re-imagining of its distributed file system that’s designed to handle the expanding storage and serving needs--as well as the tighter latency a Read more…

DuckLake Makes a Splash in the Lakehouse Stack – But Can It Break Through?

DuckDB, the creators of the embedded analytics engine of the same name, have stirred the data world with a bold rethink of lakehouse architecture. The company has unveiled DuckLake, a new open table format designed to si Read more…

This Just In

MinIO Launches MinIO Academy as AI Adoption Drives Demand for Object Storage Expertise

Aug 14, 2025 |

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 14, 2025 — MinIO today announced the launch of MinIO Academy. A centralized education hub, MinIO Academy empowers IT professionals with the skills and training needed to master MinIO AIStor, the world’s most highly performant and scalable object store, which has become foundational to data-intensive Generative and Agentic AI and analytics workloads. Read more…

KIOXIA Advances AI Server Infrastructure Scalability, Accelerating Storage Performance and Density

Aug 13, 2025 |

New KIOXIA LC9 Series 245 TB SSD Enables Emerging AI Use Cases, Improves Storage Energy Efficiency While Minimizing Data Center Footprint

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 13, 2025 —  Read more…

Hitachi Vantara Recognized by GigaOm, Adds S3 Table Functionality to Virtual Storage Platform One Object

Aug 12, 2025 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2025 — Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced it has been named a Leader in the latest GigaOm Radar for Object Storage. Read more…

Arcitecta Adds Native Vector Search and Metadata Integration to Mediaflux Platform

Aug 12, 2025 |

BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 12, 2025 — Arcitecta today announced new enhancements to its Mediaflux data management platform, delivering an AI-ready data fabric that supports all forms of data and AI models and provides a built-in vector database within its high-performance XODB database. Read more…

StorONE’s Efficient Platform Reduces Storage Guardian Data Center Footprint by 80%

Aug 11, 2025 |

New York, NY — August 11, 2025 – StorONE, developer of the industry’s most efficient storage platform, today announced a major milestone in its long-standing partnership with Storage Guardian, a leading managed service provider (MSP). Read more…

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