Cohesity speeds up flash performance, hangs out with more hardware vendors
Cohesity has accelerated its software with 'I/O Boost', a flash technology that, it says, improves backup and access performance by two-to-eight times compared with disk drives.
Matt Waxman, VP...
iXsystems supercharges OpenZFS storage
iXsystems claims it has the world’s fastest OpenZFS storage systems with the new M60 array and TrueNAS v12 software. With this week's upgrade, TrueNAS users get twice the capacity...
AWS spins up FSx for Lustre HDD options
AWS is adding HDD-based shared storage options to Amazon FSx for Lustre.
FSx for Lustre is an open source, parallel access file system which, AWS says, offers sub-millisecond latencies, up...
Your occasional storage digest with WekaIO, Scality and more
This week's storage news roundup features Weka going to Mars, Scality going to jail, and host of supporting stories.
WekaIO goes to Mars
NASA is using WekaIO to feed file...
WekaIO links up with Nvidia GPU Direct to uncork AI I/O bottlenecks
WekaIO has devised a "production-ready" framework to help artificial intelligence installations to speed up their storage data transfers. The basic deal is that WekaIO supports Nvidia’s GPUDirect storage with...
Quobyte storage software takes a bite at HPC and machine learning
Profile Quobyte produces unified block, file and object storage for high-performance computing (HPC) and machine learning.
Its software runs on-premises and in the Google cloud and is used for...
Intel regains IO500 HPC bragging rights from WekaIO
Intel has leapfrogged WekaIO to claim the IO500 fastest HPC file system. WekaIO supplanted Intel to take top place in the previous IO500 league table, which was published in...
This Week in Storage, featuring Qumulo, Actifio and more
This week, AWS has made Qumulo filer software available in the AWS government cloud; Actifio backs up SAP HANA to object storage in GCP; and LucidLink is doing...
IBM storage boss Ed Walsh leaves the company
Ed Walsh, general manager of IBM’s storage business, is leaving the company, according to sources who say he is not joining a competitor.
An IBM spokesperson said: "Yes, we can...
US government agencies get Azure NetApp Files
Microsoft has added Azure NetApp Files to US government region data centres, making it available to federal, state and local agencies.
Azure NetApp Files is a fully-managed Microsoft Azure cloud...
Panasas auto-tunes filesystem storage for different IO patterns
HPC workloads vary from using very large files, through medium-sized ones to myriad small files and mixed workloads. An HPC storage system must be tuned to match the IO...
This week in storage, featuring a mucky International Space Station NAS system
This week the International Space Station's NAS gives vent, Nebulon pumps out a survey, Pliops talks about its storage processor, we see how Pivot3's video HCI is getting better...