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A quiet week for data storage news, what with Thanksgiving and all. Which means that for the first time in many moons there is no Kubernetes or container product...
Tuxera makes SMB compression available for Linux
Tuxera, a Finnish software firm, has introduced Microsoft SMB file compression to Linux. "We can open up entirely new use cases for enterprise customers - especially for hosted storage...
Pure Storage is glad to be as-a-service for you
Pure Storage has updated Pure-as-a-Service with service catalogs, transparent pricing, a cheaper entry price for block storage and a subscription version of the FlashStack reference architecture.
Pure products are available...
Pavilion Data: Our unified storage array is the fastest in the universe
Pavilion Data, the high-end array vendor, has released a speedy parallel file system that brings it into direct competition with major HPC storage players for the first time.
The new...
DDN adds extra shine to Lustre-using EXAScaler array
DDN this week spruced up its enterprise portfolio with EXAScaler and DataFlow upgrades, and a new midrange storage array line-up. The enhancements are intended to establish the HPC storage...
Exclusive: Igneous lays off staff, blames economy
Igneous, the Seattle-based data management startup, has laid off an unspecified number of staff, citing a "difficult economic environment".
A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, adding: "We continue to serve...
New broom at Hitachi Vantara sweeps away two top execs
Two senior Hitachi Vantara execs have left the company without fanfare, signalling a shakeup by new CEO Gajen Kandiah.
A Hitachi Vantara spokesperson confirmed that CMO Jonathan Martin and ...
Seek and ye shall find (unstructured data), with Quantum ATFS
Quantum has displayed the first fruits of its April 2020 acquisition of Atavium in April - a general file storage product called ATFS. The company has also updated...
Infinidat hires chief product officer. Organogram looks sketchy
Infinidat has appointed a head of product who reports direct to the executive chairman. What does it mean for Kariel Sandler, co-CEO who runs R&D and Operations? And what...
Qumulo hybrid filers offer NVMe performance ‘at the price of disk’
Qumulo has added NVMe SSD caching speed to its hybrid scale-out filers.. Customers are also getting new systems that will 'end forklift upgrades'. They support automatic encryption, and faster...
WekaIO races out of the blocks in GPUDirect storage race
WekaIO has chalked up some benchmarks that show it is faster than VAST Data when delivering data to Nvidia’s DGX-2 GPUs server via GPUDirect. Dual-port cards and better software...
MacroSAN files great SPC-1 benchmark. But where did the US storage vendors go?
Chinese vendor MacroSAN’s new test result adds to near total far East domination of the SPC-1 storage benchmark.
SPC-1 measures the ability of the storage array to run input-output operations,...