Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
VAST reveals AI data platform vision and new database
VAST Data is announcing new AI database software as part of its upcoming mega data platform, revealing how data storage and the database itself have been converged into...
Infinidat reckons it’s bucked storage array sales downturn trend
High-end array supplier Infinidat says bookings bounced 29 percent year-over-year during the first six months of 2023.
The company sells InfiniBox storage arrays with a memory-caching capability that it says...
Flickers of light appear at the end of Western Digital’s tunnel
Western Digital experienced another quarter of depressed revenues but saw signs of an uplift in its client and consumer businesses.
The company has two divisions: hard disk drives and SSDs...
Storage system speed serving data to Nvidia GPUs
Analysis: With Dell’s PowerScale scale-out filer being included in the company’s generative AI announcement this week, we looked at how it and other storage systems compare when using Nvidia's...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
DDN says generative AI/ML work needs balanced read/write IO mix
Analysis: DDN says storage for generative AI and other AI work needs a balance of read and write speed, claiming its own storage provides the best balance because of...
Micron sets high bandwidth memory benchmark
Micron is sampling a 25GB high bandwidth memory product made from a stack of 8 smaller chips, just months after SK hynix’s 24GB, 12-high stack. The company also said...
Seagate cites ‘profound downturn in demand’ as revenues dip… and it won’t get better...
The disk drive market is depressed with Seagate reporting its lowest annual revenues in 17 years, as Seagate’s largest buyers, the hyperscale cloud providers, bought far fewer nearline drives,...
SK hynix says memory market’s recovering thanks to AI, but it will cut NAND...
Korean memory fabber SK hynix reckons it has met the bottom of the DRAM market trough and the revenue way is up from here on, but the NAND market...
VAST Data wins TACC supercomputer storage contract
VAST Data has secured a contract from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) for its single-tier, NFS-based flash storage system, edging out traditional disk-based HPC parallel filesystems such as...
Market optimism grows among some storage VARs
A report tracking enterprise VARs (value-added resellers) by analyst William Blair provides insights into the current state of the enterprise IT infrastructure market and the prospects and challenges for...