VAST Data expands into block storage and event broking
VAST Data has added block access to its existing file and object protocol support along with Kafka event broking to provide real-time data streaming to AI, ML, and analytic...
How constant frustration drives storage developments
Comment Storage is always in flux, from underlying media to new ways to access on-drive storage and specialized large language model databases. Workloads need more data. They need it...
StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs
StorPool is developing a Disaster Recovery Engine (DRE) for Linux-based virtual machines based on site-to-site replication between its storage arrays.
A Linux KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) system has, like VMware,...
Storage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Aerospike says v...
Quantum reports steep losses, says better times lie ahead
Data storage supplier and protector Quantum reported a revenue upturn in its third fiscal quarter of 2025 and a massive loss as it clears the books and looks ahead.
For...
A VAST effort: Data estate vectorization and storage for the AI era
All data storage companies are having to respond to the wave of generative AI and intelligent agents interrogating an organization’s data estate, be it block, file, or object, and...
NetApp accelerates all-flash SAN A-Series arrays
NetApp has refreshed the lower part of its all-SAN storage array line with more affordable and powerful systems.
There are two all-flash NetApp array product lines: the AFF (All-flash FAS)...
Storage news ticker – February 7
Alluxio Enterprise AI v3.5 accelerates AI model training and streamlines operations with a new Cache Only Write Mode to accelerate checkpoints, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK integrations....
Broadcom unveils Emulex Secure HBAs with post-quantum encryption
Emulex Secure host bus adapters (HBAs) from Broadcom now include post-quantum encryption algorithms and zero trust architecture to secure storage area network (SAN) data in flight.
HBAs are the endpoints...
NetApp touches down with the San Francisco 49ers
NetApp has become a founding level partner of the San Francisco 49ers professional football team in a multi-year deal and is now its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure Partner.
NetApp is...
RiverMeadow flows on-premises Pure Storage workloads to the cloud
Workload and data mobility player RiverMeadow has upgraded its platform to help extend Pure Storage's on-premises Evergreen storage-as-a-service to the cloud.
RiverMeadow says it offers its Workload Mobility Platform and...
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...