Data speed limit breakers: Vcinity and Zettar
There’s data moving and there’s high-performance computing data moving, which needs to shift massive data sets at high speed with minimal interference from transmission protocol chatter. We’ve previously written...
IBM using Ceph as underlying AI data store
IBM is extending Ceph’s block and file capabilities and positioning it as a backend data store for AI workloads behind its Storage Scale parallel file system.
Ceph is open source...
Ultra-runner CEO jogging on with Panzura plan
Interview: Dan Waldschmidt, known for his fondness of ultra-running, has become the new CEO of Panzura.
He conducted the Zoom interview standing up, not sitting, which we suppose is indicative...
Storage news ticker – February 9
Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says that AI-enhanced phishing affected more than 90 percent of...
Qumulo CTO discusses the future of data storage
Interview: Compared to file, object has simply become a protocol absorbed into an analysis solution, and proprietary GPUDirect will be followed by more generic multi-GPU-vendor technology. These are points...
Komprise unveils elastic replication for non-critical data
Komprise has pushed out elastic replication that it says provides more affordable disaster recovery for non-mission-critical file data at sub-volume level.
Komprise’s Intelligent Data Management product can tier data between...
Clean sweep for NetApp, Pure and Infinidat in GigaOm’s mid-size primary storage Radar
As in the enterprise storage Radar NetApp, Pure and Infinidat are the clear and only leaders and outperformers in GigaOm's mid-size enterprise storage Radar report and chart.
The Radar report...
NetApp and VAST Data take rivalry to the F1 racetrack
NetApp has partnered with the Aston Martin Aramco Racing team and VAST Data is linking up with the Williams Racing team as the two file storage suppliers duke it...
Data steward Rimage pivoting from optical disk publishing to data lifecycle management
Established optical disc-based archiver Rimage is pivoting to data management with an AI-powered digital asset metadata extraction and search product announced, and advanced optical storage in its roadmap.
Rimage describes...
Storage news ticker – February 4
Data protector Acronis has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP). MISA members have...
Weka bags another GPU-as-a-Service farm customer
UK-based NexGen Cloud has signed up Weka to provide parallel access filesystem software for its GPU-as-a-Service customers, becoming Weka's third GPU cloud farm customer.
GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) operations are spinning up...
Hitachi Vantara, Cisco sign managed hybrid cloud deal
Hitachi Vantara and Cisco are partnering to sell hybrid cloud managed services based on Cisco compute and networking, and Hitachi Vantara’s storage and management software.
Update. Hitachi Vantara and Cisco...