MLPerf storage benchmark: A user guide from the maker

Chris Mellor -
The latest version of the MLPerf Storage benchmark requires careful study to compare vendor single and multi-node systems across the…
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Gartner’s file and object MQ drops Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum

Chris Mellor -
Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum have been dropped from Gartner’s 2024 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for File and Object Storage Platforms,…

Wasabi CEO sees IPO ramp as firm reaches 100,000 customers

Antony Savvas -
Cloud storage unicorn Wasabi says it has reached the 100,000 customer point after continuing sales growth. The company has raised…

Storage news ticker – October 10

Chris Mellor -
Analytics company Cloudera has launched Cloudera AI Inference, powered by Nvidia NIM microservices and accelerated computing (Tensor core GPUs), boosting…

The future of security: Harnessing AI and storage for smarter protection

Brian St.Onge, Dell Technologies -
COMMISSIONED: As the world becomes more data-driven, the landscape of safety and security is evolving in remarkable ways. Artificial Intelligence…

Spotting signs of malware in the age of 'alert fatigue'

Chris Mellor -
Sam Woodcock, senior director Cloud Strategy at 11:11 Systems, tells us that, according to Sophos, 83 percent of organizations that…

IBM says mainframes and AI are essential partners

Chris Mellor -
Big Blue wants the tech industry to use its mainframes for AI workloads. A 28-page IBM “Mainframes as mainstays of…

HYCU expands SaaS data protection ahead of DORA regulations

Chris Mellor -
HYCU has found a new niche of SaaS app background infrastructure configurations and resource settings that can be mission-critical and…

Macrium brings bare metal restore to CoPilot+ Windows PCs

Chris Mellor -
UK-based Macrium has added native bare metal restore for CoPilot+ Windows PCs to its Reflect X backup product. CoPilot+ is…

ExaGrid reports record Q3 with 150 new customers

Chris Mellor -
Privately held ExaGrid says it has recorded its strongest Q3 in the company’s history, gaining 150 new customers to take…

CTERA launches Data Intelligence to link file data to AI models

Chris Mellor -
CTERA says its new Data Intelligence offering supports retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by linking its cloud file services data to customer-selected…

Commvault expands cloud and cyber resilience solutions, including Cloud Rewind

Chris Mellor -
Commvault is announcing new cloud support and anti-malware updates at its London Shift customer event, with full Commvault Cloud availability…

AI vectorization signals end of the unstructured data era

Chris Mellor -
Analysis: A VAST Data blog says real-time GenAI-powered user query response systems need vector embeddings and knowledge graphs created as…

Catalogic adds clean-room recovery, immutability to DPX

Chris Mellor -
Privately held Catalogic has added a Deletion Lock feature and a Cyber Resilient Recovery feature with a clean-room environment for…

Data lakehouse Starburst makes senior hires for key markets

Antony Savvas -
Open data lakehouse Starburst has hired fresh leadership for its key growth markets. Starburst is positioning itself to solve the…

Numemory reinvents Optane storage-class memory

Chris Mellor -
Chinese fabless semiconductor startup Numemory is developing storage-class memory (SCM) chips using Optane-like phase change memory and crossbar technology. Numemory,…

Ocient hyperscale data warehouse supports machine learning but not GenAI

Chris Mellor -
Hyperscale data warehouse supplier Ocient has surveyed enterprise execs and found that AI spending is being prioritized against a background…

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