Storage news ticker - 24 April 2026

Context management software cloud DataHub expanded its collaboration with Google, open-sourced a new certified Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex) connector with bidirectional sync of key metadata fields and announced native support for Iceberg Rest Catalog on Google Cloud BigLake. This will further support joint customers like Etsy and Trustpilot as they build their context layers, critical for AI success.

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Denodo just released a new independent  AI Trust Gap Report, based on a global survey of 850 executives, which explores why organizations are investing heavily in AI, but many still can’t fully trust the data behind it. 63% say they can’t find the data they need, and 67% struggle to keep it secure and consistent across systems. What’s becoming clear, Denodo says, is that the biggest barrier to scaling AI isn’t the model, it’s the data behind it.

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A data report from DoubleTrack, a data infrastructure consultancy, says dirty data costs the US economy about $617 billion annually, and is projected to cost about $3.5 trillion by 2036. The study attributed the rise of AI, paired with a lack of information architecture, to this growth. DoubleTrack analyzed Gartner’s baseline cost of dirty data for enterprise companies and utilized the US Census Bureau business data to understand the overall cost by employee, industry, state, and county. 

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EDB says that, by 2027, half of enterprises will be using AI agents to redefine how humans and machines collaborate. By 2030, more than 1 billion agents will be actively deployed and will execute roughly 217 billion actions a day. These agents will consume trillions of tokens daily, and electricity demand from data centers worldwide will more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), with AI being the most significant driver of that increase.

New benchmarks show EDB Postgres AI can deliver 5x–12x faster vector indexing and up to 57 percent lower token usage, as the company proves that the most effective path to AI efficiency runs through the data layer, not the GPU. EDB announced a suite of validated performance efficiencies within EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI), designed to drastically reduce datacenter power consumption, lower token usage, and deliver an unprecedented "intelligence per watt" standard for the enterprise.

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Data mover Fivetran says customers ingested more than 18 trillion monthly active rows into BigQuery in 2025, a 30 percent year-over-year increase, as enterprise AI adoption drives demand for scalable, governed data architectures on Google Cloud. More than 4,400 joint customers now rely on Fivetran and Google Cloud. Fivetran influenced nearly 10 percent of new Google Cloud bookings globally and generated more than $24 million in gross sales through Google Cloud Marketplace. 

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Registration for the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) event, August 4-6, is now open. It will bring together over 3,500 attendees and 250 speakers from across the global memory and storage landscape. 

• Full 3-Day Event Ticket: Super Early Bird rate: $995, a saving of 45 percent. Offer ends Friday, April 24th. This is your all-access ticket, including all keynotes, conference sessions, the exhibition hall, workshops, receptions, all networking opportunities, full access to the event app (including access to the attendee list, the opportunity to message other attendees and schedule meetings, badge scanning) and more. 
• AccessPlus Ticket: $50 - Access to the exhibition hall, keynote sessions and selected receptions. 
• AccessPlus with Premium App Access Ticket: $195 - Access to the exhibition hall, keynote sessions and selected receptions, plus full access to the networking event app, including access to the attendee list, the opportunity to message other attendees and schedule meetings, badge scanning and more. 

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HighPoint Technologies announced a new line of PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Boot RAID and Switch AICs and Adapters engineered to streamline the global transition from VMware to Microsoft and Open-Source virtualization platforms, offering a high-performance alternative to legacy infrastructure. The Resilient Boot Engine (Rocket 7600A Series) provides SIs with NVMe Switching technology and RAID 1 Boot redundancy for host nodes. The SDS Performance Hub (Rocket 1600 Series) has a pure PCIe Gen5 Switch architecture, and, by utilizing Native NVMe Drivers, these AICs and Adapters enable Microsoft S2D, ZFS, and Ceph to manage storage media directly, unleashing up to 64GB/s of raw bandwidth and near-zero latency for data-intensive workloads.

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Hitachi Vantara says AI datacenters make up half of the US's energy demand - and as their demand grows, public sentiment is in a death spiral. It has announced its FY2025 Sustainability Report, showcasing the data that backs up its expertise in AI energy-efficient infrastructure: 

• A 43 percent reduction in operational (Scope 1 and 2) emissions year over year, with 50% of energy now from renewables 
• A 63 percent CO₂ per terabyte reduction with VSP One Block High End vs. the previous generations
• Hitachi Vantara's storage ranks #1, #2, and #4 in ENERGY STAR's midrange category (IOPS per watt), leading against HPE, Dell, IBM, and EverPure
• Less than 0.3 percent of materials go to landfill, with up to 50% post-consumer recycled plastic in key components

The report can be accessed here.

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An IBM blog – “From RAG to Real Research: Building an AI-Q Research Assistant on an AI Data Platform with IBM Fusion” – discusses a reference architecture in which IBM’s Fusion offering supports Nvidia’s AI Data Platform. It says that, with integrations based on the AI Data Platform, Fusion HCI enables systems to continuously process, index, and vectorize enterprise data while GPUs power large-scale training and inference. That means bigger models, more complex datasets, and faster, more accurate responses – all happening in the same environment.

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InfluxData announced its partnership with Litmus, an industrial edge data platform provider, to integrate InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, InfluxData’s high-performance database, with Litmus Edge, giving industrial organizations a scalable foundation to collect, process, and analyze high-resolution data across every site, system, and sensor.

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Keepit, which provides its own data centers to backup SaaS apps, announced the results of a survey “Peer insights on AI adoption and the disaster recovery gap”. Key findings:

• 94 percent of respondents say they’re confident their current disaster recovery plan covers scenarios involving agentic AI systems.
• 33 percent of IT and security leaders say they have only partial control over the use of agentic AI in their organizations.
• 56 percent of respondents place a high priority on protecting SaaS data and disaster recovery when implementing AI solutions.
• Only 41 percent of respondents have significantly changed their approach to disaster recovery planning due to accelerated AI adoption.
• 32 percent of respondents conduct monthly testing of disaster recovery plans.

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Moments Lab has launched an initiative with AWS to chop indexing costs down by as much as 98 percent (plus 75 percent faster turnaround). Moments Lab said it had delivered a 4x reduction in the cost of indexing. The cost of indexing digital files is what keeps many large media companies from driving revenue with archived content. This initiative is aimed at large Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies, who are looking to accelerate the migration of hundreds of thousands of hours of video content to the AWS environment, where it can then be indexed and searched with Moments Lab’s MXT multimodal AI, ostensibly removing the friction point to launching video indexing projects at scale. There's more at www.momentslab.com

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NetApp has adopted Google’s Gemini Enterprise to help increase productivity in its internal product development and sales operations, becoming a customer of the same AI capabilities it is helping bring to market with Google Cloud. NetApp customers will benefit from the AI-powered gains in productivity and innovation. Gemini Enterprise helps NetApp product teams accelerate development cycles through AI-driven insights and enables NetApp’s sales teams to leverage AI to deliver hyper-relevant solutions to customers more quickly. These teams are building intelligent agents that match customers to the right solutions faster and streamline onboarding—reducing sales ramp time by an estimated month.

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NinjaOne announced significant momentum for NinjaOne Backup, with more than 15,000 customers using it to protect their endpoints, servers, and SaaS applications. The growth reflects increasing demand from IT teams and managed service providers (MSPs) for backup and recovery to be embedded within a unified IT operations platform, where shared context and streamlined workflows reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and lead to faster recovery times and stronger resilience.

NinjaOne Backup embeds device backup and SaaS backup directly into the NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform. NinjaOne Backup leverages the platform's lightweight, unified agent so every managed device is backup-ready. Alongside NinjaOne Device Backup, NinjaOne SaaS Backup protects the cloud applications organizations depend on (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Entra) with automated backups, granular recovery, and compliance controls.

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Send is a netfiles GmbH professional business filesharing offering providing solution to its expanding portfolio. Send provides a fast, simple and secure way to transfer confidential data, very large files and even entire folders. All data is encrypted during both transmission and storage at ISO-certified data centers in Germany. This new service isideal for sending and receiving mission-critical and/or confidential documents and safeguards European data sovereignty. The netfiles company is a provider of virtual data rooms and highly secure data exchange software.

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OWC has launched the Express 4M2 Ultra, the first certified Thunderbolt 5 four-slot NVMe M.2 SSD enclosure. It enables customers to install their choice of NVMe M.2 drives and configure in RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, or 10, as well as JBOD, for speeds of up to 6622MB/s. Its also launched the OWC MacDrive 12, the only system that gives Windows users complete native access to every Mac format including HFS+, APFS, and full read/write support for encrypted APFS volumes, as well as SoftRAID, and Apple RAID - directly in Windows Explorer. 

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Distributed file system (Peer GFS) provider Peer Software announced an enhanced Partner Programme, which provides value-added resellers (VARs) and technology partners with expanded enablement tools, vertical-specific support, and differentiated solutions to attract enterprise customers. The program now offers larger incentives for revenue growth, enhanced training courses, enablement materials, and new certifications for partners in the Peer Software ecosystem. Areas of focus include channel (system integrators, MSPs and distributors), cloud, and technology partners.

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Data protector and cyber-resilience supplier Rubrik has introduced cyber resilience for Google Cloud SQL, bringing immutable, automated backups to managed PostgreSQL databases.It also launched Rubrik Agent Cloud (RAC) for Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, adding a critical governance and security layer for AI agents. As organizations rapidly deploy autonomous agents, RAC enables real-time monitoring, policy enforcement, and even the ability to “rewind” unintended actions.

For customers running Google Cloud-built autonomous agents, the new integration provides Rubrik capabilities to monitor, govern, and instantly remediate AI actions. RAC is powered by Rubrik’s Semantic AI Governance Engine (SAGE), designed to maintain total control over agent behavior – with the industry’s only 'rewind' capability to undo mistakes. Read more in a Rubrik blog.

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Scality has appointed a former GM - Americas and Field CTO, Greg DiFraia, as its SVP for AI and Alliance Partnerships. Since leaving Scality three years ago he’s been CRO and then CEO of Phonism and then CEO of Inlayer. Phonism, an Inlayer brand, provides an intelligent platform for provisioning, deploying, managing, securing, and migrating multi-vendor communication devices (phones, endpoints, etc.) at scale. Inlayer is a small technology company specializing in network device management through automation, AI-powered capabilities, APIs, and built-in security. DeFraia held multiple leadership roles at Dell EMC, including leading global sales for the ECS software-defined storage platform. He was also part of the product launch teams for Atmos and ECS, two foundational object storage platforms in the industry. DiFraia will lead Scality’s global AI ecosystem strategy, driving strategic partnerships and go-to-market initiatives to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

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SK Hynix has begun mass production of the 192GB SOCAMM2, designed for the Vera Rubin GU server. It’s a next-generation memory module standard based on the 1cnm process (sixth-generation of the 10-nanometer technology) LPDDR5X low-power DRAM. SOCAMM2 is a module that adapts low-power memory – which was previously used mainly in mobile products like smartphones – for server environments. It is designed to be a primary memory solution for next-generation AI servers. 1cnm based SOCAMM2 product that is now in mass production delivers more than double the bandwidth with over 75 percent improved power efficiency compared to conventional RDIMM2 

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File streamer Suite Studios now has their file-streaming technology embedded in Frame.io Drive, a new desktop application from Adobe’s creative management platform, Frame.io. The new Frame.io Drive application leverages streaming technology provided by Suite, giving creatives instant access to their media. Files appear in macOS Finder, Windows File Explorer, and across every creative application as if they were stored on a local drive—with no downloads, relinking, transfers, or syncs required. Read more here.

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Disk drive maker WD has released its FY2025 Annual Sustainability Report.

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Yugabyte announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with AWS to deliver enterprise PostgreSQL modernization. The SCA will accelerate go-to-market efforts and deepen technical collaboration, which will help customers more efficiently deploy and operate ultra-resilient, cloud-native applications with YugabyteDV on AWS. Under the agreement, Yugabyte will:

• Accelerate database modernization and cloud migrations for PostgreSQL and legacy database workloads on AWS.
• Drive field execution through motions supported by AWS APN Customer Engagements (ACE) pipeline engagement.
• Support customers building globally distributed, resilient transactional applications on AWS.

You can read more about the announcement here.