Storage news ticker – March 21

Chris Mellor -
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw…
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Confluent Tableflow unlocks real-time AI with Delta Lake and Iceberg

Chris Mellor -
Data streamer Confluent has updated its Tableflow software to give AI and analytics software access to real-time operational data in…

Micron warns of inventory drag outside datacenters

Chris Mellor -
Micron saw revenues for its DRAM and NAND grow year-over-year as datacenter servers used more high-bandwidth memory but sales outside the…

GigaOm ranks top UDM and STaaS vendors – but are there too many?

Chris Mellor -
Research house GigaOm has re-evaluated unstructured data management (UDM) and Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) suppliers in updated Radar and Sonar reports. It reviewed…

IBM boosts Storage Scale with content-aware AI integration

Chris Mellor -
IBM Storage Scale, the longstanding parallel file system, now includes content-awareness to enhance its retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capability. Storage Scale…

DDN unveils Inferno and xFusionAI with hybrid file-object tech

Chris Mellor -
Analysis: DDN launched its Inferno fast object appliance and xFusionAI hybrid file+object technology at Nvidia’s GTC 2025. We examine both…

AI puts value in the data. So how do we get it out?

Joseph Martins -
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI is driving an explosion in infrastructure spending. But while GPU-enabled compute may grab the headlines, data management…

Pure Storage expands AI capabilities with Nvidia certification

Chris Mellor -
Pure Storage has worked with Nvidia to enable existing and new FlashBlade customers to provide data storage for AI models…

Solidigm promises fanless GPU servers by extending liquid cooling to SSDs

Joe Fay -
SK Hynix’s SSD business Solidigm has unwrapped an SSD liquid cooling technology it says will result in smaller, fan-less GPU…

Storage vendors rally behind Nvidia at GTC 2025

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Twelve storage suppliers lined up in a carefully choreographed parade at Nvidia GTC 2025 to help Jensen Huang sell more…

Legacy systems fade as arrays shift to extreme scale and parallelism for AI

Chris Mellor -
Analysis: The storage array industry is undergoing a massive pivot to extreme scale and parallel, multi-protocol data delivery for AI…

Storage news ticker – March 17

Chris Mellor -
Architecting IT analyst Chris Evans has published his latest Primary Storage report, a 30-page eBook, looking at block storage offerings…

MinIO AIStor 2.0 embraces Nvidia GPUDirect, BlueField-3, and NIM for faster AI inference

Chris Mellor -
The MinIO v2.0 AIStor update adopts Nvidia GPUDirect, BlueField superNICS and NIM microservices to bring object data faster to AI…

AWS serves up SageMaker Unified Studio for Pi Day

Joe Fay -
AWS is promising more disciplined and cost effective AI data pipelines with new services through its SageMaker and S3 Tables…

Budget data service IDrive adds replication to object storage buckets

Joe Fay -
IDrive has jacked up its e2 offering, adding object replication and a brace of other enterprise level services. Customers of…

Toshiba spins up HDD Innovation Lab to push the envelope on rust-based storage

Joe Fay -
Toshiba has doubled down on the future of spinning rust by opening an HDD Innovation Lab in Germany. The Dusseldorf…

CrowdStrike’s Falcon to ingest Nasuni data in integration deal

Joe Fay -
Nasuni has hitched its wagon to CrowdStrike, meaning information from the data platform will be picked up and passed through…

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