WEKA v4.0 filesystem goes multicloud
WEKA has ported its filesystem code, which runs natively in AWS, to the Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds with a v4.0 release adding filesystem-wide data reduction, tiering to local...
Nasuni vs NetApp: Low-speed architecture collision
We are all watching a slow-motion collision as datacenter-oriented filers from NetApp and others meet cloud-centric filers from Nasuni and its peers.
The well-established network attached storage (NAS) concept is...
Quantum’s slow growth needs rights issue to shore up balance sheet and pay off...
Quantum's final fiscal 2022 quarter and full year results, hit by supply chain issues, saw its cash balance drop necessitating a rights issue to strengthen the balance sheet and...
Pure extends FlashBlade with more capacity and faster compute
Pure Storage has launched an updated FlashBlade unified file and object array, the //S, with Purity//FB v4.0 software and double the density, performance and power-efficiency of the current FlashBlade.
FlashBlade//S,...
Pure Storage reworks Evergreen subscription service
Pure Storage has reworked its Evergreen subscription to provide a more coherent set of services and optimizations that can extend across a customer's entire fleet of Pure arrays.
There are...
Pure Storage upgrades AIRI with FlashBlade//S
Pure Storage has upgraded its combined AI infrastructure offering AIRI with FlashBlade//S storage, making it able to analyze more data faster for better machine learning models and AI insights.
When...
VAST Data flash cost heading below nearline disk
VAST Data is making data reduction improvements to get its per-TB cost down to nearline disk levels and looks set to plunge below that level with coming hardware and...
Storage news ticker – June 7
DPU and composable infrastructure supplier Fungible has announced Fungible Storage Cluster (FSC) 4.1, providing support for vSphere environments requiring high performance. Its all-flash array based on NVMe/TCP is now...
NetApp crams ransomware, single subscription features and more into hybrid multi-cloud
NetApp has announced improved ransomware protection, hybrid cloud storage in a single subscription, unified management in a single user interface, and closer collaboration with VMware to help transition workloads...
Storage news ticker – June 6
Arcserve announced the expansion of its OneXafe family of immutable data storage products with the OneXafe 4500 Series. Its capacity can be up to 216TB. It needs near-zero deployment...
Storage news ticker – June 4
AWS’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports Elastic Volumes and Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) for io2 Block Express. That means you can use Elastic Volumes to dynamically increase the...
A quick primer on HPE Cray Frontier’s parallel file system storage
The exciting news about the HPE Cray-built Frontier supercomputer formally passing the exascale test made me curious about its storage system. I pointed my grey matter at various reports...