Pure compression floats its gate array
Pure Storage has built a compressing FPGA to speed deep data reduction in its FlashArrays and so increase their effective capacity.
An FPGA (field programmable gate array) is a semiconductor...
WANdisco aims to defy laws of data gravity
Live data mover WANdisco says that for mass data needing hyperscale compute analysis, users need to move the data to compute in the cloud, and claims normal data gravity...
IBM reboots storage portfolio
IBM reckons its customers face three pressing data challenges and is realigning its storage product portfolio to measure up to them.
Update. SVC and Storage Virtualize note added at end...
Storage news roundup – March 1
Avery Design Systems has announced a validation suite supporting the Compute Express Link (CXL) industry-standard interconnect. It enables rapid and thorough system interoperability, validation and performance benchmarking of systems...
WCKD RZR intros silo-busting data platform
UK startup WCKD RZR has unveiled Data Now software at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it says catalogs different databases anywhere in a customer's network and gives them...
Pinecone: Long-term memory for AI
Startup Pinecone, which provides a vector database that acts as the long-term memory for AI applications, has hired former Couchbase CEO and executive chairman Bob Wiederhold as president and...
Storage news ticker – February 27
Data catalog and intelligence tech supplier Alation has announced Alation Marketplaces, a new product for third-party data sets to augment existing data in Alation Data Catalog for richer analysis....
Scale adds easy-bake Edge HCI install
Scale Computing has introduced a zero (technical) touch provisioning (ZTP) feature that it says means edge computing sites need a body to unbox the kit, hook it up to...
Hammerspace: Other vendors are trying to copy us
Hammerspace says it is making such good progress that other vendors are trying to replicate its data orchestration technology.
Hammerspace's Global Data Environment (GDE) provides a global namespace within which...
Komprise CEO talks up agnostic information lifecycle management
On-prem and public cloud storage vendors can add information lifecycle management (ILM) features to their products – but that only confirms the need for a global, supplier-agnostic ILM capability....
App storage engines speed up data IO, search
Equipping high IO applications with internal storage engine code makes their data ingest, search and read faster than just leaving these operations to external SAN, filer or object storage...
Storage news collection – 17 February
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Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support releases with a support lifetime of up to three years. They are...