Storage news roundup – 24 August
Data protector Acronis has renewed its relationship with the UK’s Southampton Football Club. Channel partner TMT will provide the club with the full suite of Acronis cyber protection offerings.
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Frore goes insane in the membrane with cooling tech
Frore Systems showed off a 64TB U.2 SSD cooled by its AirJet Mini at Flash Memory Summit 2023 that removes 40W of heat without using bulky heat sinks, fans...
NetApp revenue drops for yet another quarter
NetApp's financial performance for a third consecutive quarter reflected the challenging economic climate as the company reported revenues were lower than expected, despite surpassing estimates.
In its first fiscal quarter...
Graid enhances RAID card speed with software update
Graid, the GPU-powered RAID card startup, says it has accelerated its RAID card speed following a software update.
The company's SupremeRAID card utilizes on-board GPUs for RAID parity calculations and...
TD SYNNEX gets into data migration transport biz
Distributor TD SYNNEX has a physical data migration offering using a Western Digital flash server chassis and MinIO object storage.
This is quite different from software-defined data migration services from...
Kioxia has killed its Kumoscale networked flash system
Quietly and with no fanfare, Kioxia has killed its Kumoscale networked flash array or JBOF. The deed was done three months ago, in May, with a note for partners:...
Pure Storage extends Azure Cloud Block Store to lower-cost SSD instances
Pure Storage’s Azure Cloud Block Store, its FlashArray Purity operating environment in Microsoft’s cloud, now supports Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage instances. This feature separates storage from compute to...
HDDs may be greener than SSDs
Research house Futurum has backed a recent research paper that suggests HDDs could be greener than SSDs. The paper states that the biggest carbon emissions happen at the...
Samsung has 300-layer NAND coming, with 430 layers after that – report
Samsung is planning to build 300-layer3D NAND according to a paywalled DigiTimes Asia report.
This would make Samsung the second 3D NAND fabber after SK hynix to reach the 300-layer...
Hammerspace CEO pushes NFS SSD concept
Hammerspace founder and CEO David Flynn has proposed an NFS SSD. Flynn’s notion is based on NFS Ethernet SSDs. The Ethernet SSD concept has been floated before with Kioxia...
Data recovery service for corrupted WD SanDisk SSDs
Secure Data Recovery (SDR) is offering to rescue files up to 256KB from corrupted SanDisk Extreme SSDs for free. A $79.99 licence fee is required for larger file recoveries.
Some...
Supermicro preps storage servers for AI
Supermicro has launched a PCIe gen 5 storage server line with E3.S flash drives and CXL memory expansion support aimed squarely at the HPC and ChatGPT-led AI/ML markets.
The EDSFF’s...