How Pure Storage developed the FlashBlade//EXA system

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Interview. What led up to Pure Storage developing a new disaggregated system architecture for its FlashBlade//EXA? Pure Storage was founded…
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Scale Computing picks Veeam as its bestie backup supplier

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Edge, ROBO and mid-market hyperconverged infrastructure biz Scale Computing, is launching support for its Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) within the…

Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint

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A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and…

Hammerspace secures $100M to chase AI-driven data growth

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Data orchestrator Hammerspace has ingested $100 million in funding to accelerate its global expansion. Up until two years ago, Hammerspace,…

Pure debuts RC20 FlashArray//C with reused controllers for smaller deployments

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Pure Storage has introduced a more affordable, low-capacity FlashArray//C model, the RC20, built with reconditioned controllers and aimed at edge…

Lightbits: record Q1 with rise in sales and deal sizes

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Privately-owned Lightbits says it has broken growth records in the first 2025 quarter with a business surge - though we…

InfluxData rolls out InfluxDB 3 to power real-time apps at scale

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InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions in a bid to speed and simplify time series data processing.…

NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner

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Paul KunertEdit Profile NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner. The…

DAOS file system lives on after Optane

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The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark…

Storage suppliers stare down Trump slump after tariff mayhem

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Analysis. The latest round of tariff confusion – including a last-minute US Customs exemption for computers, smartphones, and related components,…

Storadera touts low-cost S3 storage hosted entirely in the EU

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Estonia-based Storadera's pitch is simple: low-cost, single-tier S3 storage in the cloud using optimized disk drive storage with higher-capacity shingled…

Storage news ticker - April 11

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Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance…

Redis Vector Sets and LangCache speed GenAI models

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Redis has announced the Vector Sets data type and fully managed LangCache semantic caching service for faster and more effective…

Keepit answers SaaS app backup scheme questions

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How is self-hosted SaaS backup service business Keepit going to back up hundreds of different SaaS apps by 2028, starting…

China's YanRong integrates KVCache with its filesystem to accelerate AI inferencing

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By integrating KVCache into its filesystem, YanRong says it has dramatically improved the KV cache hit rates and long-context processing,…

Cohesity goes Googlewards with Gaia, Gemini and Mandiant

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Data protector Cohesity is integrating its Gaia GenAI search assistant with Google’s Gemini AI model and its Agentspace, using Google…

Snowflake tethers itself to Iceberg

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Cloud data warehouser Snowflake is supporting the Apache Iceberg open table format alongside its own native data table formats. Iceberg…

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