Storage news ticker: 6 September 2024

Chris Mellor -
Catalogic's CloudCasa Kubernetes app SaaS backup service offering (Cloud Casa by Catalogic) is getting an update. It supports the backup…
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Microsoft says its opting for robots to recycle disk drives

Chris Mellor -
Microsoft is using robots to take dead disk drives apart and recycle the parts as part of its e-waste reduction…

Academics break down the evolution of database architectures

Chris Mellor -
Two US academics have written a paper explaining and clarifying what has happened with database architectures, data models, and query…

Dell serves Gen AI-optimized Linux from Red Hat

Chris Mellor -
Dell and IBM subsidiary Red Hat are packaging a PowerEdge R760xa server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)…

Plucky European lakehouse goes for new funding round to take on Databricks

Antony Savvas -
Hopsworks is billed as a flexible and modular AI lakehouse, with a Python-centric enterprise feature store that provides "seamless integration"…

Technology combinations for complex chip projects

Taruna Reddy, Synopsys, Inc. -
PARTNER CONTENT: Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the…

EU-backed archiving initiative secures fresh funding

Antony Savvas -
A European Commission-sponsored data archiving standard that can be adopted globally has been given fresh impetus with new funding. It…

No hallucination: HPE logs $6.4B of orders for AI servers, share price falls

Chris Mellor -
HPE hit its revenue forecast for Q3 of fiscal 2024 ended July 31, led by AI and traditional server sales.…

DNA tech could store thousands of laptops' data in a device the size of an eraser

Chris Mellor -
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and North Carolina State universities have developed DNA storage and computing technology that "could put a…

Hitachi Vantara arrays lead in energy-efficient data storage

Chris Mellor -
Hitachi Vantara has been shown to offer higher data accesses per watt of electricity for its block storage arrays than…

Veeam beefs up Microsoft 365 backup with immutability

Chris Mellor -
Veeam has updated its Microsoft 365 backup with immutability and scalability, claiming users can expect better performance. Veeam Backup for…

How Nvidia assesses SuperPOD AI storage performance

Chris Mellor -
Nvidia’s GPUDirect tech has led to a focus on storage array bandwidth. The GPU giant's SuperPOD certification for third-party hardware,…

Couchbase releases AI vector search and Capella Columnar on AWS

Chris Mellor -
Couchbase NoSQL database users can now get AI vector search in their edge sites and real-time analytics in the AWS…

Local language support sets up ADP-Rubrik LatAm partnership deal expansion possibilities

Chris Mellor -
Rubrik has set up a joint venture with managed service provider Assured Data Protection (ADP) to enter the Latin American…

Storage news ticker – September 2

Chris Mellor -
Broadcom announced VMware Tanzu Platform 10, a cloud-native application platform, with standardized golden paths to production for developers and platform engineers.…

Hammerspace launches Dell-hosted data orchestration appliances

Chris Mellor -
Hammerspace has added its data orchestration software in Arrow Electronics-supplied Dell server boxes. Customers can buy subscriptions to these appliances…

IBM's watsonx.data and Storage Scale accelerated AI platform

Chris Mellor -
IBM has combinined data lakehouse and parallel file system features to provide a scalable, machine-learning-based AI processing and analytics data…

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