Enterprise Storage stories
Australian businesses face growing pressure to secure fragmented data as AI adoption outpaces the infrastructure needed to support it.
Active data makes up just 4.4% of enterprise storage, raising costs, security exposure and AI search quality concerns for firms.
The move could help the workforce solutions provider stretch existing flash capacity across production, backup and disaster recovery as data grows.
Enterprises and governments could run AI on sensitive data without exposing it, as the technology targets sovereignty rules across APAC.
Broadcasters and studios can now preview archived footage before restore, cutting wasted transfers and speeding up reuse of stored content.
AI adoption is pushing organisations to store far more data, with most now reactivating archives and prioritising cheaper long-term storage.
Validation by the Science Based Targets initiative adds credibility as data-centre power demand and cooling costs face closer scrutiny from buyers.
Service providers can now centralise monitoring, updates and billing across distributed ARTESCA fleets without VPNs or manual capacity reporting.
Most firms are underprepared for AI as storage demands rise, with data quality and infrastructure now overtaking compute as the main bottlenecks.
US federal buyers and regulated sectors gain a new option as Apricorn's ASK3 gets FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation for encrypted storage.
Almost all firms are storing more because of AI, as archived data is being pulled back into use and storage costs climb.
Engineers now open CAD files in seconds instead of minutes, after a global file system reduced version conflicts across three continents.
Asia Pacific buyers are replacing ageing storage to ready data systems for AI, helping Hitachi Vantara lift product revenue 52% in the region.
The ranking bolsters Everpure's pitch that storage vendors must help customers tame fragmented data for AI, not just sell hardware.
Rising AI infrastructure spending lifted storage sales 45% at the Hitachi unit, helping offset complexity worries for corporate IT teams.
GPU cloud operators could cut downtime as the new tool opens support tickets automatically when storage faults are detected.
AI teams could cut integration work as the firms pair fast-access storage with lower-cost capacity for training, checkpoints and inference.
Storage is becoming a bigger line item in AI budgets as Wasabi sets up a dedicated business to target labs, start-ups and neoclouds.
The new system gives NMSU researchers more capacity for AI training and simulations as its annual research spend tops USD $141 million.
The deal should widen access to file management tools for businesses across Central America through IMC's reseller network.