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Wasabi strengthens Silicon Valley footprint with new AI-ready storage region and highperformance Wasabi Fire launch
Wasabi Technologies has expanded its AI footprint with a new storage region in San Jose and the launch of Wasabi Fire, a high-performance NVMe storage class built for demanding AI workloads
Wasabi Fire is expected to be available from early 2026.
The announcements highlight Wasabi’ s strategy to support the growing demand for scalable, fast and cost-efficient storage as AI data volumes surge.
“ Object storage is the backbone of AI, but customers shouldn’ t have to choose between speed and cost,” said David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Wasabi Technologies.“ With Wasabi Fire, we’ re delivering NVMe performance at disruptive prices so organizations can store the data required to train AI.”
Wasabi Fire extends that value with NVMe, SSD-based performance for compute-intensive training, inference, high-frequency data logging and media workflows.
Wasabi’ s new San Jose region – strengthening the company’ s Silicon Valley presence – is now operational and co-located with IBM infrastructure to provide low-latency, high-throughput storage to support complex AI workloads.
“ We’ re excited for Wasabi to expand into Silicon Valley,” said Alan Peacock, General Manager of IBM Cloud.“ Wasabi Fire on IBM Cloud is designed to give clients the benefits of IBM’ s secured infrastructure.”
As AI development shifts from pure GPU investment to the rising cost of large data lakes, storage has become a critical factor in AI economics. Wasabi’ s HDD-based Hot Cloud Storage changed the model by offering predictable pricing without egress fees.
Ericsson, Saab and Calian partner to strengthen Canada’ s communications innovation
Ericsson Canada, Saab and Calian have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on secure and interoperable communication systems that strengthen Canada’ s defence readiness.
Announced in Ottawa, the agreement focuses on developing dualuse technologies that support modernized command, control and communications( C3) capabilities across operational domains.
As emerging technologies reshape security, the partners aim to address Canada’ s need for unified systems that enhance resilience, public safety and national defence. The collaboration will explore data-driven solutions designed to provide decision-makers with critical information while improving coordination among defence organizations and first responders during events such as natural disasters.
By combining Ericsson’ s network expertise, Saab’ s defence and surveillance technologies and Calian’ s integration capabilities, the companies intend to create a secure‘ system of systems’ that bridges current and communication networks on land, at sea, in the air and within cyber environments.
Leaders from the three companies emphasized the importance of the initiative.
Calian’ s Defence and Space President, Chris Pogue, highlighted the role of secure, seamless communication in modern operations and noted Canada’ s opportunity to advance sovereign capabilities.
Saab Canada President Simon Carroll stated that the effort reflects Swedish and Canadian innovation working together to build futureready, interoperable solutions for defence and civilian use.
Ericsson Canada President Nishant Grover added that the partnership aligns with Canada’ s innovation priorities while delivering industrial value.
The MoU establishes a framework for joint research and development aimed at fostering innovation, supporting Canadian jobs and contributing to national defence and public safety objectives through communication technologies.
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