Storage News Ticker – November 3
Open-source player Airbyte, which provides data source to destination connector tech, has a "Powered by Airbyte" version that enables software developers to embed over 100 integrations into their applications....
Xinnor soups up Lustre for HPC and AI with xiRAID
Software RAID house Xinnor has developed xiSTORE, an HPC and AI market storage software stack using its xiRAID and the Lustre parallel filesystem with off-the-shelf hardware.
Xinnor's xiRAID software is...
Backblaze blitzes cloud storage speeds with ‘shard stash’ cache
Backblaze cloud and backup storage is speeding up small file uploads by using a fast SSD ingest cache called a shard stash.
The business stores ingested files on disk drives,...
Graid GPU-powered RAID card outperforms Xinnor software
Graid reckons its GPU-powered RAID card has delivered better performance than Xinnor software RAID running in the same server, a claim that is being contested.
RAID requires a set...
YMTC first to ship 232-layer QLC NAND despite sanctions
China's YMTC is reportedly shipping a 232-layer 3D NAND chip in QLC (4 bits/cell) format ahead of all other NAND suppliers in spite of US technology sanctions.
Canadian chip analyst...
IBM unveils Storage Scale System 6000 for AI workloads
IBM has launched a new Storage Scale appliance with twice the throughput of the current high-end ESS 3500.
Storage Scale is IBM's established parallel file system software previously called GPFS...
Storage news ticker – 31 October
Cohesity has appointed Dave Kushner as its VP for Federal Sales. He was VP Federal Sales at Enveil and an SVP of Sales at ViON Corp before that. He...
Western Digital sees shoots of growth after HDD winter
Following another low revenue quarter at Seagate, Western Digital disk sales were also depressed but flash bucked the downcycle trend, and WD thinks the disk market is bottoming out.
Western...
Oxide on-prem cloud computer reinvents the server rack
Startup Oxide has delivered a rack-level system providing cloud-style computing on premises as its first commercial product.
Oxide was founded in September 2019 by datacenter heavyweights CTO Bryan Cantrill, CPO...
Western Digital spinning out Flash business
Western Digital has concluded its strategic review and intends to separate its existing hard disk drive and flash/SSD businesses into two separate publicly listed companies by the second haf...
Pure Storage exec shuffle combines FlashBlade and FlashArray product managment
Pure Storage is ringing in some exec-level changes after combining the FlashBlade and FlashArray product management teams.
FlashBlade is an all-flash array for storing unstructured data. It includes a...
Seagate revenue decline continues amid slow HDD sales
Revenue declines continue at Seagate – first quarter fiscal 2024 earnings were 29 percent lower than a year ago, when they were 35 percent down on the year before...