Object First announced general availability of Fleet Manager, a cloud-based management service designed to simplify operations across distributed Ootbi backup storage deployments for Veeam environments. The service is included at no additional cost for customers with active support contracts and is targeted at enterprises and service providers managing multi-site backup infrastructure. More on Object First:

At Think 2026, IBM made a broad set of announcements to show how it wants enterprises to operationalize AI across data, infrastructure, governance, and regulated environments. The company’s updates included a new enterprise AI operating model, the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, and a separate quantum computing milestone with Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN, advancing

Following its recent collaboration announcement with Google Cloud, NetApp introduced new capabilities to simplify how enterprises use existing data for AI workloads in cloud environments. The updates focus on reducing the operational complexity and cost associated with moving and managing data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. At a high level, the joint effort targets a

NetApp announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud, formalized through a four-year enterprise agreement to accelerate the deployment of NetApp storage within Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air-Gapped environments. Delivered with World Wide Technology (WWT), the offering targets sovereign cloud use cases that require strict data residency, security, and operational isolation. The joint solution integrates NetApp’s

At the AI in Finance Summit, Broadcom introduced VMware Tanzu Platform agent foundations, positioning it as a secure-by-default runtime for building and operating autonomous AI applications on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The release extends Tanzu’s established code-to-production model to AI agents, targeting enterprise teams seeking to move from isolated AI experiments to governed, production-scale deployments.

Wasabi Technologies has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the Lyve Cloud business from Seagate Technology. As part of the transaction, Seagate will receive an equity stake in Wasabi, officially becoming a shareholder. While specific financial details remain undisclosed, the move marks a significant consolidation in the pure-play cloud storage market. David Friend, co-founder and

At the Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Chicago, Nutanix and NetApp announced a strategic partnership to integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), including support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The integration is expected later this year and targets enterprises looking to align virtualization and data management strategies across on-premises, hybrid cloud,

Backblaze has published its Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, a quarterly series comparing cloud storage performance across Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage. The report covers testing in US-East and EU-Central and includes both the results and the methodology used, with the stated goal of letting others review, reproduce, and compare

At NVIDIA GTC, Lenovo introduced an expanded phase of its Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA, positioning the portfolio as an end-to-end path for production AI inferencing across client devices, enterprise infrastructure, and large-scale AI cloud deployments. The announcement centers on accelerating AI adoption, cutting time-to-first-token (TTFT), and improving per-token economics as organizations move from