Summary of Week 43 – October 20-24, 2025

A weekly selection of the Top 5 stories, plus 5 honorary mentions

By Philippe Nicolas | October 27, 2025 at 2:02 pm

Top News

October 24 – Veeam to Acquire Securiti AI; Unifies Data Resilience with DSPM, Privacy and AI Trust
October 23 – AWS Swallows NeuroBlade
October 22 – Microsoft Azure Delivers the First Large Scale Cluster with Nvidia GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI Workloads
October 21 – Exascale Racks New Iteration
October 20 – Summary of Week 42 – October 13-17, 2025

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New Veeam Data Cloud for Managed Services Providers Extends Industry-Leading SaaS Data Resilience to Partners
New Veeam Data Cloud for MSPs delivers a secure, multi-tenant SaaS platform to simplify operations and drive business success
October 21, 2025 | Press Release

OCP Global Summit 2025: Xsight Labs and Interface Masters Partner
To produce a world's highest performance enhanced switch appliance (EXA)
October 17, 2025 | Press Release

OCP Global Summit 2025: Hammerspace Selects the Xsight Labs E1 800G DPU to Enable a Flattened, Open Network Architecture for AI Warm Storage
New architecture eliminates legacy servers, slashing data storage TCO, and unlocks 800Gbps direct GPU-to-flash storage performance for the most demanding gigawatt-scale AI token factories
October 16, 2025 | Press Release

OCP Global Summit 2025: Xsight Labs and Cyber Forza Partner to Deliver Breakthrough AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solutions for AI and Cloud Infrastructure
Collaboration integrates Cyber Forza’s AI security operations software platform with the Xsight Labs’ X2 Ethernet 12.8T SDN switch and E1 800G DPU Edge Server chips to deliver unmatched networking performance, system efficiency and service scale for next generation AI and Edge infrastructure.
October 16, 2025 | Press Release

Oracle AI World 2025: DDN Infinia Now Available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Powering Enterprise-Grade AI with High-Performance, Low-Latency Object Storage
October 14, 2025 | Press Release

ExaGrid Releases AI-Powered Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery
New "Auto Detect & Guard" feature uses AI for enhanced alerting and security
October 14, 2025 | Press Release

AMD and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs
The company multiplies partnerships on the accelerators side
Top News | October 9, 2025 | Press Release

Veeam Data Cloud Arrives in Indonesia, Launching Microsoft 365 as First Workload on Locally-Hosted SaaS Platform
By leveraging Azure’s local infrastructure, Veeam Data Cloud provides a trusted foundation for modern data protection in Indonesia
October 9, 2025 | Press Release

ExaGrid Announces Record Q3 2025 - the Best Q3 in Company History
ExaGrid achieves 19th aonsecutive quarter of free cash flow, EBITDA, and P&L positive operations
Top News | October 8, 2025 | Press Release

Nvidia Swallowed Enfabrica for $900 Million
To go beyond NVLink
Top News | By Philippe Nicolas | September 30, 2025 | News

OpenAI and Nvidia Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of Nvidia Systems
Illustrating Nvidia and OpenAI place and role in the fast growing AI and IT industry
Top News | September 24, 2025 | Press Release

VergeIO and Cirrus Data Unite to End Infrastructure Sprawl with Joint Universal Migration Path and Unifying Platform
Combines Cirrus Data’s patented software-only data mobility technology with VergeOS single-codebase infrastructure OS for virtualization, storage, networking, and AI.
September 18, 2025 | Press Release

Xsight Labs Delivers Universal Top-of-Rack (TOR) Switch Platform
Co-developed with Edgecore Networks, the platform leverages the X2 Switch ASIC to deliver next-gen top-of-rack performance and advanced AI workloads
September 16, 2025 | Press Release

Veeam Launches Software Appliance: Instant, Secure Data Protection without Hardware Lock-in
Software-only solution that gives organizations flexibility to run on virtual, physical, or cloud infrastructure, delivery as bootable ISO and OVA for maximum deployment flexibility, and hardware-agnostic
September 5, 2025 | Press Release

Introducing Azure Storage Discovery, Transform Data Management with Storage Insights
Fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into Azure Blob Storage data estate.
August 29, 2025 | Press Release

DDN Powers the AI Factory of the Future with Record-Breaking Performance Density
Proven. Powerful. MLPerf-Validated: DDN AI400X3 Sets the Bar for AI Infrastructure
August 5, 2025 | Press Release

VergeIO and Solidigm Introduces The AFA Replacement Kit
Offering designed to replace traditional all-flash arrays, brings together 3 Solidigm 4TB enterprise SSDs and VergeOS server license combined into one streamlined platform
July 25, 2025 | Press Release

DDN Eliminates GPU Waste Spiral with Industry-Leading KV Cache Performance for AI Reasoning
The announcement delivers sub‑millisecond latency and up to 27× faster, maximizing GPU utilization and slashing costs
July 22, 2025 | Press Release

DDN and Polarise Partner to Deliver Sovereign, Sustainable AI Factories for Europe
Building and operating Nvidia-accelerated AI factories across the continent
July 18, 2025 | Press Release

Google Cloud Managed Lustre, Powered by DDN EXAScaler Offering High-Performance File System Now Generally Available
Confirming the role of Lustre file system for AI and HPC workloads
July 9, 2025 | Press Release

Company Profile: DDN
Reference in HPC storage and leading the pack in AI storage with their data intelligence platform approach
Top News | By Philippe Nicolas | July 3, 2025 | News

Podcast: Interview with Sven Oehme, CTO, DDN
Episode 268 of The French Storage Podcast
By Philippe Nicolas | July 2, 2025 | News

VergeIO Introduces VergeIQ On-Premises AI for Every Enterprise
Enabling enterprises and research institutions to securely, efficiently, and easily deploy and manage private AI environments
June 4, 2025 | Press Release