Airbyte, a leading data source connector provider, has joined the newly established Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation as a Silver Member. The AAIF is focused on building a collaborative ecosystem comprising technology leaders, enterprises, and innovators, with the goal of defining best practices, reference architectures, and standards to support the safe deployment of agentic AI. Its core mission is to operationalize trustworthy agentic AI at scale. Airbyte’s connector-centric model and flexible platform help ensure that agentic systems can reliably retrieve the most relevant data signals while upholding data integrity and enforcing data policies.
Arcitecta, a data management solutions provider, is set to return to Supercomputing Asia 2026, which will be held in Japan from January 26 to 29. At the event, the company will showcase its vision for large-scale intelligent research data management. On January 26, Arcitecta executives will take part in a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session alongside industry leaders from Nvidia, HPE, IBM, Spectra Logic, and other prominent firms to discuss the future of data management and storage architectures that support AI, HPC, and data-intensive research initiatives. Additionally, Arcitecta will be joined by Cerabyte at Booth #14 to demonstrate their collaborative efforts in bridging active data management with true long-term data retention solutions.
Assured Data Protection has announced the promotion of Tony Giannini, who will take on an expanded role. Previously serving as VP of Global Innovation, Giannini will now also lead Assured’s channel organization across North America, Canada, and Latin America. This move unifies the leadership of innovation, product strategy, and partner engagement under a single structure. His new title is Global Vice President of Innovation and Vice President of Channels, Americas. The revamped structure is designed to accelerate partner enablement for new services and drive faster adoption of Assured’s growing product portfolio, including recent and upcoming innovations tailored for hybrid and multi-platform environments.
China-based DapuStor has unveiled its R6060 122TB QLC SSD, featuring a PCIe Gen 5 interface. This high-capacity SSD is engineered for AI data lakes, vector databases, and hyperscale cloud environments, with scalability up to 245TB. With this launch, DapuStor joins the ranks of elite global suppliers competing to deliver 245TB-class flash storage, highlighting how flash density and efficiency have become key competitive battlegrounds in enterprise storage—particularly for AI, cloud, and hyperscale deployments. The R6060 incorporates intelligent data placement technology and delivers TLC-level reliability and endurance. For more details, visit the official website.
According to TechPowerUp, HDD prices have increased by an average of 46% since mid-September. ComputerBase’s price tracker shows that HDD prices have risen between 23% and 66% over the past four months, varying by model. Seagate’s IronWolf Pro NAS HDD + Rescue 16TB drive saw a 23% price hike, while the highest increase was recorded for Toshiba’s Cloud Scale Capacity MG10F AFA 22TB model.
HighPoint Technologies and ScaleFlux have announced that HighPoint’s Rocket series PCIe Gen5 NVMe storage expansion adapters have been fully validated for compatibility with ScaleFlux’s CSD5310 Series enterprise NVMe SSDs. This validation ensures seamless integration and optimal performance when the two products are used together in enterprise storage environments.
In the latest blog post from Lightbits Labs, Carol Platz—tech evangelist and Vice President—breaks down how a “Scale-Out Flash Storage” model enables organizations to run transactional databases or Kubernetes clusters with 6 times the performance of EBS at half the cost. The full blog can be accessed here.
Phison, a leading supplier of SSD controllers and drives, has partnered with Zstor GmbH to appoint the latter as its European distributor for Pascari enterprise-grade NVMe SSDs. Under this agreement, Zstor will now offer Phison’s complete range of enterprise storage products, spanning high-performance data center SSDs to solutions optimized for mission-critical business applications.
Telestream, a provider of content lifecycle management and media workflow orchestration solutions, has certified its DIVA content management product for compatibility with Quantum’s ActiveScale object storage, including its integrated ActiveScale Cold Storage tier. This certification expands the long-standing partnership between Telestream and Quantum, building on the existing certification of Quantum StorNext and interoperability with Telestream solutions such as Vantage. The combined DIVA-ActiveScale offering provides a modern foundation for sports organizations, broadcasters, production companies, post facilities, and enterprises managing long-term video libraries.
EE Times reports that SK hynix is planning to invest $13 billion in an HBM packaging plant. The company utilizes mass reflow molded underfill (MR-MUF) packaging technology, an alternative to thermal compression with non-conductive film (TC-NCF) between dies—which can cause memory die warping under high bonding pressure in 12-hi and 16-hi HBM chips. With MR-MUF, a liquid epoxy molding material encapsulates multiple dies. The new P&T7 (Package & Test 7) plant in Cheongju, South Korea, will handle the complex back-end vertical stacking and logic integration required for next-generation HBM4 and HBM4E products.
SoftBank, the Japanese multinational conglomerate and investment holding company, has developed Infrinia AI Cloud OS—a software stack for AI data centers and a GPU cloud platform. The naming echoes VAST Data’s AI OS and DDN’s Infinia products. SoftBank claims this cloud operating system for the intelligence age can transform GPU platforms into a fully automated, revenue-generating AI Cloud in minutes.
The stack includes Kubernetes as a Service, Inference as a Service, secure multi-tenancy, and high operability. SoftBank states that these features enable AI data center operators with customer management systems, as well as enterprises offering GPU cloud services, to add advanced capabilities to their own GPU service offerings—capabilities that support efficient AI model training and inference while flexibly utilizing GPU resources.
SoftBank emphasizes that advancing AI infrastructure requires not only physical components like GPU servers and storage but also software that integrates these resources and enables their flexible, scalable delivery. Through Infrinia, SoftBank aims to play a central role in building the cloud foundation for the AI era and delivering sustainable value to society. The Infrinia Team is based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit the official page.
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure is a high-performance, cost-effective platform that enables service providers to deliver IaaS, S3-compatible storage, Kubernetes hosting, disaster recovery, and more in a single stack. Version 7.2 is now available, featuring built-in Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for both administrators and self-service users—based on TOTP and compatible with Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator.
Beyond 2FA, Version 7.2 includes updates tailored for real-world service provider operations:
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New guest OS support, including RHEL 10, AlmaLinux 10, Rocky Linux 10, SLES 15 SP6/SP7, and Oracle Linux 10
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QEMU updates that eliminate the need for rolling maintenance involving VM migrations and node reboots
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Up to 2x higher sequential write performance with replication redundancy on tiers with checksums enabled
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Smarter erasure coding schema selection, plus the ability to set custom M+N in the Admin Panel
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Infrastructure network migration support for networks with both IPv4 and IPv6 subnets
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Custom MAC address prefix for VM network interfaces (helps prevent MAC duplication across multiple clusters in the same L2)
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New health endpoint for Object Storage API (for external load balancer health checks)
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