GPUDirect Storage hitting the streets to VAST acclaim
Nvidia’s CPU-bypass GPUDirect Storage (GDS) technology is now available, and has been added to its HGX AI supercomputer. There are three vendors already in production and five more ramping...
Some Western Digital My Book Live units become My Book Deads
Some Western Digital MyBook Live NAS devices have been reset over the cloud and owners’ files made inaccessible. Users around the globe have been affected.
Update: 6 July 2021. Stellar...
News fragment: Dell Technologies Capital invests in anti-ransomware startup Calamu
Dell Technologies Capital has invested in Calamu, an anti-ransomware startup with so-called safe harbour technology.
Calamu was founded this year by CEO Paul Lewis and has offices in San Jose...
Your occasional storage digest with MariaDB, HPE, WD, IBM and more
This week we have an improved MariaDB database, HPE’s Alletra array getting faster access, WD announcing a much faster 5G phone-embedded flash drive and IBM producing an all-IBM tape...
Your occasional storage digest with Storj and Tesla, Komprise, OVH Cloud and more
A cloudy theme this week, with Tesla camera footage stored in a cloud and cloud service provider OVH offering a Kubernetes service. We also have Komprise enabling its management...
OpenDrives goes on post-funding round hiring spree
Since raising $20m in January, NAS supplier OpenDrives has increased its headcount by 70 per cent and now expects to grow its 2021 revenues 200 per cent year on...
Dell’s CloudIQ storage health and performance checker adds security status monitoring
Dell EMC has introduced cybersecurity features into CloudIQ, its AIOps application for Dell EMC IT infrastructure products.
CloudIQ supports PowerMAX, PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerProtect, VxBLock, VxRail, as well as older arrays...
Your occasional storage digest with DNA storage, a new IDC Tracker and more
New things are the theme of this week’s roundup, with DNA storage prospects explained in a white paper, and IDC setting up a software-defined infrastructure tracking report. These are...
Snowflake builds partnerships for data ingestion, masking, and integrity
Cloud data warehouse supremo Snowflake is setting up partnerships with Hammerspace, Talend, and BiGID to broaden its ecosystem and spread its data ingesting and analysing tentacles further across the...
Weka beats DDN, Supermicro Optane and Dell EMC PowerScale in stacks of STAC benchmarks
STAC benchmarks show WekaIO filesystem software running on Amazon cloud EC2 instances can deliver record-breaking tick analytics performance for the financial services industry, beating on-premises DDN EXAScaler, Dell EMC...
NetApp goes all-in on hybrid cloud
NetApp appears to making hybrid cloud a core focus, having recently made a slew of product announcements including core storage products, Flexpod converged infrastructure, Keystone subscription...
Nasuni attacks on-premises Windows file servers with Google Cloud edge caching
Cloud file services company Nasuni has announced Nasuni Files for Google Cloud, a product and migration service for Google Cloud available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Nasuni’s object-based Cloud File...