How VAST Data could realize Thinking Machines’ vision
Comments by VAST Data co-founders CEO Renen Hallak and CMO Jeff Denworth suggest the company is going to develop data infrastructure software that can help fulfill the vision of...
VMware adds cloud file store on AWS
VMware is previewing a managed Cloud Flex Storage file service for VMware Cloud on AWS, based on its Datrium acquisition.
Cloud Flex Storage is a pay-as-you-go, elastic and scalable storage...
Nasuni scores more cash to fight file services war
Nasuni has scored $60 million in a ninth round of funding with software development, more international expansion, and potential strategic acquisitions in mind.
The company was started in 2008 as...
Qumulo opens the door to Kubernetes with CSI
Scale-out file system supplier Qumulo has made its file services available to Kubernetes-orchestrated containers via a CSI driver plug-in.
CSI, the Container Storage Interface, enables stateless containers orchestrated by Kubernetes...
Storage news ticker – March 23
Storage powerhouse DDN is working on a reference architecture with Nvidia to have its A3I A1400X2 EXAScaler array, announced last November, integrated with Nvidia's DGX A100 GPU server.
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HPE has...
NetApp is increasing targets thanks to CloudOps biz
The Cloud Operations (CloudOps) business looks so good for NetApp that the company has increased its overall revenue targets.
This was revealed at a NetApp Investor Day conference on March...
VAST Data launches Ceres storage drive enclosure
VAST Data has announced its next-generation Ceres storage drive enclosure using long ruler format drives and Nvidia BlueField-1 DPUs to deliver 50 percent more bandwidth. It is developing a...
VergeIO – an HCI curiosity shop survivor
Verge.io's technology creates nested, multi-tenant, virtual datacenters for enterprises and MSPs from hyperconverged infrastructure servers. Back in the HCI glory days before 2018, it was known as Yottabyte and...
WEKA chooses Pi Day to serve up latest rev
WEKA unwrapped version 3.14 of its eponymous parallel file system yesterday, appropriately enough on Pi Day.
In a blog announcing the update, marketing veep Colin Gallagher waxed on how Pi...
InfiniFS: Scientists claim to have solved the 100-billion-file problem
Chinese computer scientists reckon they have found a way to get through a metadata access bottleneck slowing file access when you’re looking for that one file in 100 billion.
Filesystems...
NetApp withdraws from Russia
NetApp is suspending its Russian operations in light of the Ukraine invasion.
The company has employees in Russia and sells to local businesses via an OEM agreement with Fujitsu. Tech...
DDN adds midrange hybrid box to IntelliFlash storage array line
DDN has added a low-end model to its IntelliFlash array line to broaden appeal for its hybrid NVMe SSD/hard disk drive range.
The IntelliFlash block+file storage arrays were acquired by...