Newcomer Arcfra lands spot in Gartner’s HCI vendor lineup

Singapore-based startup Arcfra has entered the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and been named in Gartner’s latest Market Guide for Full-Stack…

NetApp and Intel's AIPod Mini for departmental inferencing

NetApp has added a lower cost AIPod Mini to its AIPod line of ONTAP AI systems, which provide a compute…

NetApp trims workforce amid mixed market signals

NetApp is laying off staff as it reorganizes to cope with a changed commercial environment. A company statement said: “NetApp…

Varonis and Pure Storage team up on security system

Cybersecurity supplier Varonis Systems is partnering with Pure Storage to provide a data security and cyber resilience system to prevent…

How Pure Storage developed the FlashBlade//EXA system

Interview. What led up to Pure Storage developing a new disaggregated system architecture for its FlashBlade//EXA? Pure Storage was founded…

Scale Computing picks Veeam as its bestie backup supplier

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

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

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

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

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

NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner

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

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

Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads

Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale,…

Pure adds VM support to Portworx amid VMware shakeup

Pure Storage’s Portworx is looking to win over customers wishing to migrate their virtual machines to containers by adding VM…

Storage news ticker – March 31

Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has…

Infinidat and Veeam push VMware migration to Red Hat OpenShift

Infinidat and Veeam are encouraging VMware migration to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (RHOS-V) by providing immutable backups from a RHOS-V…

Scan Computers deploys PEAK:AIO storage for Blackwell GPU cluster

An EMEA-based GPU server cloud provider is using PEAK:AIO storage to hold customer data for its Blackwell GPU cluster. Blackwell DGX…

Storage vendors rally behind Nvidia at GTC 2025

Twelve storage suppliers lined up in a carefully choreographed parade at Nvidia GTC 2025 to help Jensen Huang sell more…

Supermicro says Fibre Channel is on the way out, but SAS lives on and NVMe is rising

Interview: We had the opportunity to discuss storage servers with Supermicro and find out how it designs and customizes them…