Storage News Ticker – 15 January
Data protector Catalogic released DPX 4.14, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery platform. “People will continue to use tape as their main backup target...
Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite
A Dell VP has said reclaiming installed SSDs for reuse is risk-laden as data could be lost.
David Noy, VP for Product Management at Dell and VP of Product Management...
Nasuni’s latest exec reshuffle
Andres Rodriguez, the founder and CTO at cloud file services supplier Nasuni, has relinquished his CTO role to Jerry Carter, an ex-Dell VP of Engineering, and new CFO Ross...
Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage
Wasabi has closed a second late-stage funding event to strengthen its AI data cloud storage infrastructure.
It provides cloud storage services that are less expensive than hyperscalers like AWS, Azure,...
VAST Data’s Flash Reclaim attacks competitors’ installed bases
VAST Data thinks the SSD and HDD supply shortage problem is so severe that it has a Flash Reclaim initiative to repurpose a customer’s installed SSDs for use in...
Storage news ticker – 12 January
Commvault will be a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe. It ill be a fully featured, independently operated, sovereign cloud backed by...
Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes
Interview. Israeli startup Eon pulled in $127 million in funding in October 2024 for its cloud backup posture management (CBPM) software which turns cloud backups into assets which can...
Sky-high flash prices: data reduction or tier to disk?
As SSD prices rise we wonder whether we’re seeing a panic-buying storage media price rise bubble or is AI-driven demand real? In either case, what should we do about...
Rubrik’s booming base offering and two side bets
Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha and CFO Kiran Choudary, recently sat down with William Blair financial analysts and discussed its business situation, performance and prospects. We saw the WB report...
Sandisk and high-bandwidth flash efforts
Analysis: Sandisk has published a blog about an interview with high bandwidth memory (HBM) pioneer Professor Joung-ho Kim from KAIST’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. KAIST is Korea’s...
Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW
Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe the three and set them in an AI inferencing...
Phison extends aiDAPTIV+ to boost AI inference on PCs
Phison is extending its aiDAPTIV+ SSD technology to target AI key-value cache workloads, aiming to expand effective GPU memory and speed up inference on personal computers.
The SSD controller and...