VAST and Nvidia show how to push data to GPUs fast – over...
VAST Data and Nvidia today published a reference architecture for jointly configured systems built to handle heavy duty workloads such as conversational AI models, petabyte-scale data analytics and 3D...
It’s (quick) payback time for Cisco UCS and Cohesity
In this week's storage news roundup, Cohesity and Cisco say users can save bundles of cash compared to using other servers and unstructured data management software. We've also got...
Scality secures $20m to smooth the way to profitability
Scality today announced it has bagged $20m in new financing - and said this is enough to fund it to profitability.
The object and file storage startup's CEO, Jerome...
Huawei is the big beast of 2020’s IO500
An Intel DAOS file system has leapfrogged WekaIO on the IO500 list, an annual league table of the fastest HPC file systems. This reverses Weka’s win over DAOS in...
Infinidat picks Western Digital exec to be its new CEO
Infinidat, the enterprise large array supplier, has appointed a new CEO and CFO, replacing its co-CEO structure and completing the leadership transition from founder Moshe Yanai's era.
The new CEO...
SPEC replaces SPECsfs 2014 benchmark with AI and genomics workouts
One of the more complicated file storage performance benchmarks is being replaced - by a successor that is even more complicated.
The SPECsfs 2014 SP2 benchmark determines file performance in...
What does AWS Outposts mean for on-premises storage vendors?
Amazon late last year launched AWS Outposts, a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, including server, storage, networking, and AWS cloud software services. The appliance is...
IDC finds another way to count HCI revenues – and Nutanix comes out of...
IDC has devised yet another way to classify HCI revenues, this time by counting sales of the software running the heterogeneous storage controller that supplies block, file and...
Rubrik picks up Igneous pieces, gains Petabyte scale
Rubrik has bought "key technology and IP assets of Igneous", the Seattle-based data management startup which hit the buffers this year. Terms are undisclosed.
Dan Rogers, Rubrik President, GTM...
Quantum gains media asset management chops with tuck-in acquisition
Quantum has acquired Square Box Systems, a small UK software developer of media asset management software. Terms are undisclosed.
The Warwickshire company is “a growing, profitable software business unit with...
Lustre and S3 join Atempo’s Miria data moving party
Atempo has added support for Lustre and S3 in a major update for Miria, its enterprise data backup, archive and migration suite.
Update. Datadobi does work with Lustre. Comment added...
DDN reveals VMstore and Intelliflash updates for 2021
High performance computing and enterprise needs are converging, according to DDN, which is developing technology in response.
In a press briefing this week, the HPC storage veteran gave us a...