Storage news roundup – June 13
US semiconductor giant Qualcomm is to buy UK-based Alphawave IP Group, AKA Alphawave Semi. The $2.4bn deal will see Qualcomm take control of the UK target’s “high-speed wired connectivity...
DDN unwraps AI400X3, Infinia updates in Hamburg before AI world turns to Paris
DDN chose the International Supercomputing Conference this week to officially launch its latest appliance, the AI400X3, together with enhancements to its AI software offering Infinia 2.1.
The firm said these...
Storage News Roundup – June 9
Lightbits has unveiled a reference architecture for what it claims is “scalable, highly available, disaggregated, software-defined storage” for simplifying and accelerating Kubernetes deployments. The architecture, designed with AMD, aims...
Storage News Roundup – June 2
The Cayman Islands could pitch itself as no-questions- asked repository for data as well as cash and assets, a government official has suggested. The British Overseas Territory in the...
AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them...
It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo
CIOs have a storage problem, and the reason can seem pretty obvious.
AI is transforming the technology industry, and by implication, every other industry....
Hypervisor swap or infrastructure upgrade?
Don't just replace VMware; tune up your infrastructure
Finding a suitable VMware alternative has become a priority for many IT organizations, especially following Broadcom's acquisition of VMware. Rather than swapping...
Storage news ticker – May 16
Open source ETL connector biz Airbyte announced progress in the first quarter with revenues up 25 percent, industry recognition, new product features, and Hackathon results. Michel Tricot, co-founder and...
NEO expands 3D X-DRAM tech for denser, faster memory
NEO Semiconductor has expanded its 3D X-DRAM concept with new variants aimed at improving retention time, density, and power efficiency. By modifying its original one-transistor, zero-capacitor (1T0C) design to...
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 HCI Software less than a year after launch.
CEO Wenhao...
Nutanix marries cloud-native infra with Pure Storage and agentic AI
Nutanix is becoming cloud-native and hypervisor-independent, supporting external storage and embracing generative AI as it aims to provide a generalized software platform on which you can run anything, anywhere.
At...
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 and storage foundation for departmental and team-level enerative AI...
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 as an all-flash storage array (AFA) vendor, surviving and prospering...