Isle of Man Wants to Turn Datasets Into Balance-Sheet Assets
The Isle of Man has introduced a Data Asset Foundation (DAF), a statutory legal structure that lets companies register curated datasets as formal property assets. Once entered into a DAF, data can be listed on balance sheets, used as collateral, licensed, or factored into mergers and acquisitions. The pilot program is moving toward full implementation later this year, targeting data‑intensive sectors such as finance, gaming, AI, healthcare, and telecoms. By anchoring data rights in Manx law, the island aims to attract global firms seeking a trusted, low‑tax jurisdiction for data‑driven finance.
Pinecone Claims up to 97% Lower Costs with Dedicated Read Nodes
Pinecone has launched its dedicated read nodes (DRN) as a generally available offering, promising up to 97% lower query costs compared with its on‑demand pricing. The service is aimed at workloads with steady high query‑per‑second rates, large vector collections and...
Say Hello to VMware Alternative Arcfra
Arcfra, a Singapore startup founded in May 2024, has quickly become a notable player in the hyper‑converged infrastructure (HCI) market. Its AECP v6.3 platform, built on the Arcfra Cloud Operating System, delivers over 11 million IOPS, 130 GiB/s bandwidth and sub‑100 µs latency, earning a...
Commvault Announces Trio of AI Tools for Data Prep, Agent Oversight, Resilience
Commvault unveiled three AI‑focused solutions—Data Activate, AI Protect, and AI Studio—within its Commvault Cloud platform. Data Activate curates protected backup data into trusted AI‑ready datasets, supporting Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Azure and Snowflake integrations. AI Protect continuously discovers AI agents, maps...
Sandook Delivers Pooled SSD Performance-Boosting Management
MIT and Tufts researchers unveiled Sandook, a two‑layer software system that manages pooled SSDs in datacenter clusters by continuously profiling each drive and dynamically assigning read‑write weights. By routing requests away from SSDs undergoing erase cycles or garbage collection, Sandook...
Hungry Private Equity Eyeing up Commvault
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo, among others, is evaluating a bid for data‑protection specialist Commvault, which is currently exploring sale options with Goldman Sachs. The company posted record Q3 FY2026 revenue of $314 million and surpassed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue,...
Everpure Says TurboQuant Turns KV Cache Into a Storage Problem
Everpure’s TurboQuant algorithm compresses the high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) KV cache by roughly five‑fold, turning a memory capacity bottleneck into a storage‑I/O challenge. By quantizing 128‑dimensional vectors to three‑bit representations, the technique retains a cosine similarity of 0.94 while shrinking a...
WEKA Claims Nvidia CMX Support Plays to Its Strengths
Nvidia’s GTC 2026 announcement introduced the CMX KV‑cache extension for RDMA‑connected SSDs, prompting industry speculation that it could erode WEKA’s advantage with local SSDs in GPU servers. WEKA counters that its NeuralMesh client and server software already supports Nvidia Grace...
DDN Hires Chief Revenue Officer
DDN announced Kevin Delane as President and Chief Revenue Officer, bringing experience from Salesforce, Cohesity and Everpure. The hire follows a $300 million Blackstone investment and a wave of senior appointments in product, finance and operations. Delane will oversee global revenue...
VDURA Says 30 TB QLC SSD Capacity Now Costs 22.6x More than HDD
VDURA’s Flash Volatility Index shows that by Q1 2026 a 30 TB QLC SSD costs 22.6 times more than a comparable 30 TB HDD, up from 4.9× a year earlier. Prices for 30 TB QLC SSDs surged from $2,450 to $15,121, a 517% increase, while...
Samsung Fabs Memory Gold
Samsung Electronics reported a preliminary first‑quarter 2026 operating profit that surged 755% year‑on‑year, driven by soaring high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) prices. Revenue jumped 68% to ₩133 trillion (about $88.5 billion), while operating profit reached ₩51 trillion (roughly $37.9 billion). The profit outstrips Micron’s total quarterly...
Volumez Veers Towards Agentic AI Data Infrastructure
Volumez, once known for ultra‑fast block storage, is pivoting to an agentic AI data‑infrastructure platform. The startup now touts more than 13 TB/sec bandwidth, dwarfing rivals that cap out below 2 TB/sec. The strategic shift has coincided with the departure of several...
How to Navigate the Storage Crunch in the AI Era
AI‑driven workloads are outpacing traditional storage planning, turning five‑year forecasts into a relic. Companies face stretched lead times and compressed project windows, forcing a shift from "buy‑and‑build" to on‑demand storage services. Everpure’s Evergreen architecture offers a service‑level‑backed, outcome‑focused model that...
Nutanix Pushes Agentic AI, Bare-Metal Kubernetes at .NEXT 2026
At its .NEXT 2026 conference, Nutanix unveiled a suite of AI‑focused offerings, highlighted by the Agentic AI platform that integrates with Nvidia AI Enterprise to deliver multi‑tenant GPU inference for neocloud providers. The company also introduced NKP Metal, a bare‑metal Kubernetes option...
Nasuni Reckons It Has the AI Juice
Nasuni has expanded its public‑cloud portfolio by adding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and rebranded to emphasize AI capabilities. The company introduced Active Everywhere v6, which gives edge teams LAN‑speed access to governed file data, and AI Activate, a Model Context Protocol layer that...
