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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everspin demos CXL-connected MRAM memory expansion - www.blocksandfiles.com/architecture...
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Everspin demos CXL-connected MRAM memory expansion
In a world-first, MRAM developer Everspin has demonstrated x86 server memory expansion using its PER ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NetApp discovers and resells Diskover ROT technology - www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/10...
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NetApp discovers and resells Diskover ROT technology
NetApp is partnering with Diskover, and reselling its DataDiscover product, so its customers ca ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Memory gold rush bonanza makes billions for Micron - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/1...
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Memory gold rush bonanza makes billions for Micron
Memory triopolist Micron reported surging revenues again in its latest quarter as persistent memory ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MongoDB CEO walks across to Meta as it sets up enterprise AI stack business - www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud...
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MongoDB CEO walks across to Meta
MongoDB CEO and President Chiratan Desai, hired in November last year from being Cloudflare presiden ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NetApp buying Peak:AIO to give ONTAP Parallel NFS injection - www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/09...
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Are we human?
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everpure's head-turning fiscal 2028 guidance - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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Everpure's head-turning fiscal 2028 guidance
Financial analysts were told Everpure is at an inflexion point with three growth drivers and acceler ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Xinnor simplifies and extends RAID-based fast NAS management - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protect...
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Xinnor simplifies and extends RAID-based fast NAS management
Xinnor adds comprehensive RAID, filesystems, NFS and networking control plane and previews its exten ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spread your sheets - Databricks acquisition itch still unsatisfied - buys Row Zero - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-managem...
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Databricks acquisition itch still unsatisfied -buys Row Zero
Databricks has acquired Row Zero and its spreadsheet technology developed for both human and AI agen ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Datadobi skewers invalid unstructured data access with a DAGger - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-managem...
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Datadobi skewers invalid unstructured data access with a DAGger
Datadobi has announced StorageMAPS’ Data Access Governance (DAG) to show who has access to unst ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gartner rates storage and compute-as-a-service infrastructure vendors - Everpure, HPE and Huawei win - www.blocksandfiles.com/architecture...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Q&A with AtlasBase CEO about DNA storage/computation technology added to article - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protect...
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AtlasBase makes Thalia DNA computer and storage chip
AtlasBase has built a DNA-based storage and computation chip device, Thalia, a molecular computer, w ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IDC’s latest enterprise storage tracker shows booming storage market growth - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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IDC’s latest enterprise storage tracker shows booming storage market growth
IDC’ s quarterly enterprise storage tracker says the market grew 33.6 percent annually to the second ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big advance in DNA storage - AtlasBase makes Thalia DNA computer and storage chip - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protect...
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AtlasBase makes Thalia DNA computer and storage chip
AtlasBase has built a DNA-based storage and computation chip device, Thalia, a molecular computer, w ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SereneDB launches superfast S3 data search engine - trounces Lucene - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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SereneDB launches superfast S3 data search engine.
German startup SereneDB’s Krummelanke is claimed to be the fastest database search engine in the wor ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
VAST's DataEnclave protects private enterprise data and AI model builders' weights - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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VAST's DataEnclave protects private enterprise data and AI model builders' weights
VAST Data has DataEnclave software providing a safe and secure enclosure in which enterprises can gi ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nutanix buys Ryax in Agentic AI-focused tuck-in acquisition - automating agent infrastructure component building - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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Nutanix buys Ryax in Agentic AI-focused tuck-in acquisition
Nutanix is buying French software developer Ryax Technologies and its software to to build, run and ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A look at DapuStor’s combined SLC and QLC SSD - or SLC vs pSLC - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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A look at DapuStor’s combined SLC and QLC SSD
China’s DapuStor has developed a dual-mode J5060 SSD, proving a mix of QLC capacity and pseudo ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huawei’s OceanStor KV cache storage for hyper-scale AI data centers - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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Huawei’s OceanStor KV cache storage for hyper-scale AI data centers
Huawei has announced the OceanStor M900, a scale-out, all-flash storage cluster providing an up to 6 ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Starburst supports GPUs for faster distributed data analysis - www.blocksandfiles.com/architecture...
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Starburst supports GPUs for faster distributed data analysis
Starburst is getting 3 to 4x faster responses to AI analysis queries by using GPUs instead of CPUs.T ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SK Hynix considering US Solidigm fab - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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SK Hynix considering US Solidigm fab
The Seoul Economic Daily reports SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm is thinking about building a US-based ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Irish researchers' molecular computer uses DNA origami - www.blocksandfiles.com/architecture...
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Irish researchers' molecular computer uses DNA origami
Three researchers at Ireland’s Maynooth University Hamilton Insitute have devized a molecular comput ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Druva reacts to AI ransomware raids with AI responses - www.blocksandfiles.com/security/202...
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Druva reacts to AI ransomware raids with AI responses
Druva is using AI-based responses to combat AI-fuelled ransomware raids.The backup and data resilien ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's here: doubled Alletra MP X10000 cluster size and unified file+object - www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/09...
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It's here: doubled Alletra MP X10000 cluster size and unified file+object
HPE Alletra MP X10000 release 4 is now generally available, increasing the node and JBOF count ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CTERA finds 95% of enterprise file data rarely used - www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/09...
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CTERA finds 95% of enterprise file data rarely used
Cloud file system supplier CTERA commissioned research that found just 4.4 percent of enterprise fil ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HPE recruits ex-Hitachi Vantara CEO Sheila Rohra - www.blocksandfiles.com/multicloud/2...
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HPE recruits ex-Hitachi Vantara CEO
HPE has appointed ex-Hitachi Vantara CEO and HPE returnee Sheila Rohra as COO for its Hybrid Cloud b ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
VDURA's Sentinel watches over fleets for faults - www.blocksandfiles.com/storage-mana...
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VDURA's Sentinel watches over fleets for faults
VDURA Sentinel sends customer system health data to VDURA for automatic analysis and fix.Parallel fi ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BeeGFS runs on Huawai OceanDisk storage servers - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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BeeGFS runs on Huawai OceanDisk storage servers
ThinkParQ’s BeeGFS parallel filesystem software now runs on Huawei’s OceanDisk all-flash storage ser ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scaleout Software’s in-memory digital twins for generative AI - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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Scaleout Software’s in-memory digital twins for generative AI
Scaleout Software has announced in-memory digital twins to receive live operational telemetry and ma ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seagate bigging up disk drives as strategic AI data stores - www.blocksandfiles.com/disk/2026/09...
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Seagate bigging up disk drives as strategic AI data stores
Seagate’s inaugural 2026 Data Infrastructure Readiness Report says AI is transforming storage into s ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
US Listing? Me too says Kioxia - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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US Listing? Me too says Kioxia
NAND fabber and SSD shipper Kioxia is preparing a US share listing, emulating SK Hynix which entered ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Storage news ticker - 11 September 2026 - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protect...
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Storage news ticker - 11 September 2026
Entertainment and media-focused storage supplier 45Drives announced a major expansion of SnapShield, ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Arizona Cardinals pick Dell for IT lineup - www.blocksandfiles.com/object/2026/...
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Arizona Cardinals pick Dell for IT lineup
The Arizona Cardinals professional American football team is using Dell servers and storage products ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
OWC buys Open Drives to expand stack - www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/09...
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OWC buys Open Drives to expand stack
OWC, known for supplying extra storage, memory and SWS to M&E Apple users, is buying OpenDrives ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Media workflows get better wth LucidLink - www.blocksandfiles.com/file/2026/09...
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Media workflows get better wth LucidLink
Cloud file streamer LucidLink is extending its media workflow capabilities and developer tools, whil ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Commvault recovering Active Directory faster - www.blocksandfiles.com/security/202...
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Commvault recovering Active Directory faster
Commvault’s Active Directory Pre Recover reduces the time it takes to recover Active Directory (AD) ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Scality’s Maestro manages ARTESCA fleets - www.blocksandfiles.com/object/2026/...
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Scality’s Maestro manages ARTESCA fleets
Scality’s new Maestro product manages multiple installations of ARTESCA cloud object storage.ARTESCA ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
WEKA partnering Backblaze for its B2 cloud storage - www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud...
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WEKA partnering Backblaze for its B2 cloud storage
WEKA, which supplies high-speed unstructured data access for AI and accelerated computing, has a dea ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI agents can use Quill to talk direct to enterprise SQL databases - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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AI agents can use Quill to talk direct to enterprise SQL databases
RavenDB says its Quill AI context software means AI agents can access existing SQL databases without ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A quantum of data assessment and autonomous management - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-managem...
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A quantum of data assessment and autonomous management
Quantum’s Autonomous Data Management (ADM) can assess data placement across a storage estate and sug ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
HYCU extends Microsoft SaaS protection to Azure Dev/Ops - www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud...
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HYCU extends Microsoft SaaS protection to Azure Dev/Ops
HYCU R-Cloud now protects and recovers Azure Dev/Ops data from Repos, Boards, Pipelines, Test Plans, ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Masked people!! Eg; Just StopOil idiots.
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Solidigm in fog - SK hynix on Solidigm pre-IPO rumors:  'No matters have been determined' - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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SK hynix on Solidigm pre-IPO rumors: 'No matters have been determined'
The status of Solidigm, SK hynix’s acquired Intel NAND and SSD division, is shrouded in fog after th ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A new era emerges: A review of storage supplier revenue from 2020 to 2026 - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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A new era emerges: A review of storage supplier revenue from 2020 to 2026
AI, with its extraordinary demand for memory and NAND, has utterly reshaped the storage supplier rev ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Storage news ticker - September 4 - with Cadence, Cloudera, Everspin, Frore, Infinidat, Kioxia, NetApp, Peer SW, OceanBase, Qdrant, Quantum, Snowflake, Synology and VDURA - www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/0...
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Storage news ticker - September 4
Cadence announced its PHY and controller IP for the PCI Express (PCIe) 6.0 specification, implemente ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cohesity takes HCLTech to its Clean Room - www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protect...
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Cohesity takes HCLTech to its Clean Room
Cohesity is supplying a  managed clean room capability within HCLTech’s VaultNXT offering.India-base ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tape boom coming? www.blocksandfiles.com/tape/2026/09...
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Tape capacity shipments fell in 2025 but 2026 could be a boom year for tape
Shipped tape archive capacity went down 9 percent year-on-year in 2025 as enterprises archived less ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CrowdStrike’s security agents can trigger Commvault, Rubrik and VAST Data cyber-recovery - www.blocksandfiles.com/security/202...
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CrowdStrike’s security agents can trigger Commvault, Rubrik and VAST Data cyber-recovery
CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 event in Las Vegas saw new integrations between its security workflo ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dell's revenue bonanza benefits from killer AI workloads -https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/09/02/dells-revenue-bonanza-benefits-from-killer-ai-workloads/5293866 -
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It ain’t big enough; Qdrant uprates vector benchmark dataset size 1,000x - www.blocksandfiles.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
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It ain’t big enough; Qdrant uprates vector benchmark dataset size 1,000x
Open-source vector search and database supplier Qdrant has produced a 10 billion record dataset for ...
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chris-mellor.bsky.social @chris-mellor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
MinIO goes to Saudi Arabia to build HUMAIN AI data fabric - gets a good win - www.blocksandfiles.com/object/2026/...
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MinIO goes to Saudi Arabia to build HUMAIN AI data fabric
MinIO is partnering Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to provide the data foundation for a s ...
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