Discovering Diskover’s data management discipline
US startup Diskover is a top-down open source metadata management software company with relatively few but significant customers in Media, EDA, Energy, and Life Science, and appears to have...
WEKA reshuffles C-suite amid AI push
WEKA has appointed new chief revenue, product, and strategy officers.
The company supplies high-performance, parallel access file system software for enterprise and HPC, with AI and agentic AI workloads now...
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...
Hammerspace secures $100M to chase AI-driven data growth
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has ingested $100 million in funding to accelerate its global expansion.
Up until two years ago, Hammerspace, founded in 2018, was financed by founder and CEO David...
NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner
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NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner.
The NFL is a trade association and sports league consisting of 32...
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
China’s YanRong integrates KVCache with its filesystem to accelerate AI inferencing
By integrating KVCache into its filesystem, YanRong says it has dramatically improved the KV cache hit rates and long-context processing, making AI inferencing cheaper.
Chinese storage software supplier YanRong provides...
Google Cloud’s NetApp Volumes will link to Vertex AI
Google Cloud and NetApp are extending the NetApp Volumes storage service to work better with Vertex AI, support larger data sets, separately scale capacity and performance, and meet regional...
Google Cloud offering managed Lustre service with DDN
DDN is partnering Google Cloud with its Google Cloud Managed Lustre, powered by DDN offering.
The Lustre parallel file system enables Google Cloud to offer file storage and fast access...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Qumulo cranks up AI-powered NeuralCache
Qumulo has added a performance-enhancing NeuralCache predictive caching feature to its Cloud Data Fabric.
The Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) was launched in February and has a central file and object...