Weka shines in cloud performance and efficiency benchmark

Weka running in the public cloud has made big gains in the SPECstorage Solutions 2020 benchmark arena with clear wins…

OptraSCAN combines pathology imaging with ‘affordable’ storage

OptraSCAN, a digital pathology solution provider headquartered in the US, has announced the availability of a combined image management and…

Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services

Global datacenter services heavyweight Equinix is to replace its CEO as part of a planned transition in "late Q2." Update.…

Storage news ticker – March 14

Virtual distributed file system supplier Alluxio has been included for the second consecutive year in Forbes's "America's Best Startup Employers"…

DBOS raises $8.5M to get cloud apps off the 'dirt roads'

DBOS, a developer of what it claims is the “world's first cloud-native operating system,” has raised $8.5 million in seed…

Meta hooks up with Hammerspace for advanced AI infrastructure project

Meta has confirmed Hammerspace is its data orchestration software supplier, supporting 49,152 Nvidia H100 GPUs split into two equal clusters.…

Cloudian becomes a file mount point

Cloudian is supporting AWS Mountpoint, so that applications can issue file calls to a data lake stored on Cloudian HyperStore…

ScaleFlux makes go-faster computational storage SoC

Computational storage drive developer ScaleFlux has a new System-on-Chip (SoC) that it claims quadruples capacity, doubles sequential read/write bandwidth and…

Vawlt seals in €2.15M for its distributed data storage ‘supercloud’

Lisbon-based startup Vawlt Technologies has secured an additional €2.15 million ($2.35 million) round of funding to help widen the reach…

Generative AI and the wizardry of the wide-open ecosystem

COMMISSIONED: IT leaders face several challenges navigating the growing generative AI ecosystem, but choosing a tech stack that can help…

VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers

All-flash storage array supplier VAST Data has ported its storage controller software into Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPUs to get its stored…

MinIO goes macro for mega AI workloads

MinIO has developed an Enterprise Object Store to create and manage exabyte-scale data infrastructure for commercial customers' AI workloads. The…

Cohesity Gaia and vector embedding the backup data estate

Listening to Cohesity's Gaia guy, Greg Statton, talking to an IT Press Tour audience about having a conversation with your…

Scality: there are degrees of immutability

Object storage supplier Scality released the results of a survey of US and European decision-makers about immutable storage, saying that…

Huawei MED drive information emerging slowly

Huawei is developing an archival storage system using magneto-electrical disks (MED), claiming its power draw is similar to a spin-down…

Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions

Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the…

Acquired Model9 mainframe data extractor becomes BMC AMI Cloud suite

Business IT modernization supplier BMC bought Model9 in April last year, and has rebranded its software as the AMI Cloud.…