Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond
Max Mortillaro and Arjan Timmerman set up their EMEA-focused Osmium Data Group analyst firm in March. They published a data protection Trendscape report in November (Trendscape is the firm's...
Lightbits scales virtual SANs past 100 PB
Virtual SAN provider Lightbits has an intelligent control plane to manage clusters of its block storage software instances federated together for 100 PB-plus deployments of Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenShift, and...
The nature of the VAST Data beast
Analysis. VAST Data has had a hectic year as the Generative AI training boom has provided an enormous tailwind for its business progress. As a private company, it has...
Gartner’s storage sermon for 2026 – 2029
Enterprise storage planners and buyers must adopt cyber-storage, autonomous storage and manage by SLA outcomes
So says Gartner’s 2026 Strategic Roadmap for Storage as storage is “undergoing a profound transformation”...
Nutanix posts solid Q1 but warns of delayed deals ahead
Hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix reported continued growth and increased profitability in its latest quarter, but forecast a slowdown due to sales push-outs.
Revenues in the first fiscal 2026 quarter ended...
Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software
Hammerspace says IO500 results show its standard Linux plus NFS system software achieves HPC-class performance without proprietary parallel file system complexity.
The IO500 benchmark ranks the performance of storage systems...
Nvidia SCADA offloads storage control path to the GPU
The Nvidia SCADA scheme is ushering in GPU-controlled storage IO for AI inferencing workloads that will be faster than GPUDirect for small block transfers.
SCADA is an Nvidia term in...
CXL 4.0 doubles bandwidth and stretches memory pooling to multi-rack setups
The fourth CXL memory sharing spec adds speed and extends distance for multi-rack systems.
The Computer eXpress Link (CXL) specification defines how pools of memory can be connected across the...
Azure gets VAST’s AI OS as VAST builds out global AI operations data fabric
VAST Data’s AI OS software stack has been ported to Azure and will be available as a managed service.
The AI OS is composed of a stack of data services;...
Qumulo adds autonomous AI management and GPU server data delivery features to Cloud Data...
Qumulo has introduced three new, AI-relevant, software capabilities: Helios AI Agent, Cloud AI Accelerator, and AI Networking, to its Cloud Data Platform (CDP) scale-out filesystem software to make management,...
Pure Storage Data Stream is an AI pipeline data dream
Pure Storage has introduced Data Stream, a GPU-centric, AI-powered, integrated hardware and software stack for AI data pipelines.
Data Stream is a software suite running on FlashBlade//S and Nvidia Blackwell...
DDN unveils turnkey Enterprise AI HyperPOD built on Nvidia platform
DDN has joined the list of Nvidia AI Data Platform implementers with its Enterprise AI HyperPOD, a switch-on-and-go Infinia object storage-based system.
The turnkey system’s compute hardware uses Supermicro’s AI-optimized...