Panzura gets edgy with smartphone and tablet access

Chris Mellor -
Fancy doing file sharing and collaboration on a smartphone or tablet? Panzura has an Edge Gateway which might appeal. The…
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Fujitsu reselling Qumulo software on Gen 4 Xeon servers

Chris Mellor -
Qumulo scale-out filesystem software is available on new Primergy M7 hybrid servers from Fujitsu. These M7 servers were launched in…

Storage news ticker – September 27

Chris Mellor -
CDN supplier Akamai has confirmed six new core compute regions across Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. The new locations in Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Jakarta, Osaka, Japan, and São Paulo expand Akamai’s cloud computing network todata-intensive connection points…

Dell APEX Cloud Platform comes to Azure Stack HCI

Chris Mellor -
Dell has launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Azure, first announced at Dell World in May, helping to provide a…

Toshiba's 22TB disk drive arrives, catching it up to Seagate, WD

Chris Mellor -
Toshiba has launched a 22TB MG10F disk drive, five months after Seagate and 14 months after Western Digital. Basically the…

CoreWeave GPU-as-a-Service cloud farm using VAST storage

Chris Mellor -
GPU cloud service provider CoreWeave is using VAST Data to for its customers' storage needs. CoreWeave rents out Nvidia A100…

Lightbits switches on block storage in Azure Marketplace

Chris Mellor -
As promised in June, the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform has been made available in the Azure Marketplace as a managed…

VAST Data, model collapse and an 'arms race' for human-generated data

Chris Mellor -
VAST Data thinks that generative AI developments will lead to an "arms race" for real data as well as the…

Decentralized Storj positions itself against CDNs and AWS for AI model distribution

Chris Mellor -
The Storj network has increased in size by a third in four months and the company is expanding into India,…

NeuroBlade aims to be 'the Nvidia of data analytics'

Chris Mellor -
Hyperscalers who use SQL processing units (SPUs) to offload x86 CPUs running analytics workloads could get a 100x or more acceleration…

What a mesh. How to tell a lakehouse from a data lake

Chris Mellor -
Ever get confused about the differences between a data warehouse, data lake, lakehouse, and data mesh? Bruno Rodrigues Lopes, a…

Storage news ticker – September 22

Chris Mellor -
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has released Computer Backup 9.0 in early access, which it says eliminates stress over restoring data.…

Komprise wants to help monitor sprawling data estates

Chris Mellor -
Storage Insights from Komprise provides file and object capacity and usage information across multiple suppliers, locations, and clouds. It’s a…

Kioxia reportedly refinancing loan for possible WD flash merger

Chris Mellor -
Kioxia is looking to refinance a ¥2 trillion ($14 billion) loan arrangement pursuant to its potential merger with Western Digital’s…

Allocating AI and other pieces of your workload placement puzzle

Clint Boulton, Dell Technologies -
COMMISSIONED: Allocating application workloads to locations that deliver the best performance with the highest efficiency is a daunting task. Enterprise…

Solidigm SSD looks to outpace rivals on random writes

Chris Mellor -
Solidigm has announced a storage-class memory (SCM) datacenter write caching SSD, taking direct aim at Micron’s XTR drive and Kioxia's…

HYCU CEO wrote the book on SaaS data apocalypse

Chris Mellor -
We face a looming SaaS data apocalypse, according to HYCU co-founder and CEO Simon Taylor, and he’s written a book about…

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