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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of December 20, 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review<\/em>, join Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/p>\n Strengthening Europe\u2019s technological leadership, the European Commission focuses on the development of new technologies in the semiconductor and IT sector, aligned with the European Chips Act. The award to Cerabyte, supports the development of Ceramic Data Storage technology, and highlights the need for, and EIC commitment to, new scalable and sustainable data storage solutions.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Cachengo’s peer-to-peer encrypted and trusted business model called\u00a0Rent-a-Node\u00a0decentralizes and democratizes AI, compute and storage \u2013 offering an economically compelling alternative to the public cloud by allowing brick-and-mortar businesses to become the Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers to other clouds, thus allowing content to be distributed very close to the end-users.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With the latest HYCU R-Cloud enhancements and updates, customers and partners now can rapidly migrate in an application-centric manner to, from, and between platforms like AWS, AWS GovCloud, Azure, Azure GovCloud, Azure Local, Nutanix, VMware and physical servers. This allows companies to no longer be anchored to any one single infrastructure.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are thrilled that Infinidat has been positioned, again, as a Leader in the Innovation\/Platform Play quadrant of GigaOm\u2019s Primary Storage Radar report. This strong placement in one of the industry\u2019s most respected storage reports underscores our commitment to continuous innovation with our state-of-the art enterprise storage solutions,\u201d said Eric Herzog, CMO, Infinidat.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n MinIO’s recently\u00a0launched\u00a0AIStor was built for AI and ML workloads and works out of the box with every major AI\/ML technology. It is the world’s fastest object store with GETs\/PUTs benchmark results that exceed 2.2 TiB\/sec and 1.0 TiB\/sec on 260 nodes of NVMe drives and a 100GbE network. From predictive models to GenAI, MinIO delivers the performance and scalability to power the AI enterprise.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The round was led by Sorenson Capital with participation from PayPal Ventures and continued support from Commerce Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, Village Global, Quona Capital, and XYZ Ventures. The funding will accelerate Bureau’s product expansion into new use-cases, and geographical expansion to several new markets worldwide to meet a significant surge in global demand.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The need to secure AI applications and the systems that power them has never been greater. The use of AI has expanded rapidly in recent years, but it has also introduced unique and growing security concerns that are difficult to address with existing security tools and processes. Protect AI\u2019s industry-leading AI security platform includes a suite of products that offer comprehensive security capabilities for AI build and deployment processes.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This new capability offers an innovative approach to building artificial intelligence (AI)\/machine learning (ML) infrastructure intended to let customers add powerful new graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes to Myriad clusters as needed to respond quickly to evolving workflow and pipeline needs. Designed to maximize GPU utilization and performance, the client is optimized for GPU-intensive workloads such as AI\/ML model training and inferencing, high-performance computing (HPC) visualization and modeling, and video rendering.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With this equity funding, Vultr is expanding access to global cloud infrastructure to enable a new era of AI-native applications. With 32 cloud data center regions across six continents, Vultr is the only globally available, independent, full-stack AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The 6th annual Insight Jam LIVE!<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span> opened with a compelling focus on Data Management and Analytics<\/em>, laying the groundwork for effective AI strategies. This day features an exceptional lineup of thought leaders and experts sharing actionable insights through keynotes and panels designed to address the most pressing challenges and opportunities in the data-driven enterprise.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The\u00a06th Annual\u00a0Insight Jam LIVE!<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the original celebration of enterprise tech and a 4-day virtual event dedicated to equipping builders, implementers, and experts with actionable strategies for maximizing AI\u2019s impact across the enterprise.<\/p>\n Centered on the theme\u00a0Strategies for AI Impact<\/em>, the event features more than 25 Expert Keynotes and Roundtable panels with participation from over 100 executives and thought leaders.<\/p>\nTop Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of December 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Cerbyate Nabs EIC Accelerator Grant Funding<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Hammerspace Partners with Cachengo<\/strong><\/h4>\n
HYCU Brings Major Updates to R-Cloud<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Infinidat is a Leader in Primary Storage, According to GigaOm<\/strong><\/h4>\n
MinIO Partners with F5 on AI Workloads<\/strong><\/h4>\n
PayPal Invests in Bureau<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Protect AI Joins Microsoft Pegasus Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Quantum Now Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Vultr Raises New Funding Round with Participation from AMD Ventures<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam<\/em>, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community<\/a><\/strong><\/span> where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.<\/p>\nThe 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE!<\/em> Day 1 Recap: Data Management Strategies for AI Impact<\/h4>\n
Final Day of the 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact<\/em>, December 10-13<\/h4>\n