Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
Pure Storage updates FlashArray Purity OS
Pure Storage has added integrated block, file and virtual machine management facilities to its FlashArray Purity OS, saying this enables its array to run all three workloads simultaneously with...
IBM looks to M&As after pancake-flat Q1
IBM revenues grew just 0.4 percent year-on-year in Q1 2023, held back by its Infrastructure business unit but with storage hardware a bright spot. It sees M&A possibilities ahead...
Storage news ticker – April 19
The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program announced the completion of new school construction in Sierra Leone and Guatemala, in partnership with GoDaddy. The Barbara Junior Secondary School in Sierra Leone...
Cache me if you can: Infinidat claims accelerated growth rate
Infinidat says it has accelerated its business, claiming a 59 percent annual bookings growth rate in calendar Q1 of 2023.
The privately held company, which didn't release revenue numbers, has...
Volumez swells thanks to $20M A-round
SaaS-based storage orchestrator Volumez has raised $20 million.
This A-round of funding was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from existing investors Viola Ventures and Pitango. Viola and Pitango's...
IDrive speeds cloud object storage with SSDs
Cloud and backup storage provider IDrive has launched an all-flash version of its e2 object storage service, with fast access to files stored as objects.
Up until now, all-flash object...
Burlywood software aims to supercharge SSDs
SSD controller software startup Burlywood is claiming its FlashOS software outperforms Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SK hynix and Solidigm drives in write speed and latency consistency, saying it achieves vastly...
Storage news ticker – April 14
Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems announced GA of the fully-managed 11:11 Managed SteelDome in partnership with SteelDome Cyber. This provides secure, scalable and cost-efficient storage of customers’ unstructured,...
Feel the Power: IBM intros Direct PCIe-attach drives
IBM now provides direct, switchless access to a Power server’s flash drives, the aim being to enable more cores to access more drives with higher data access bandwidth.
The Power...
StorPool: The traditional SAN is dead. Arise, software-defined multi-controller block storage
Interview StorPool CEO Boyan Ivanov and his team see their block storage access software, running on multiple controllers, as an example of the "post-SAN" storage that’s needed in an...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Wall Street analyst Aaron Rakers reckons that AMD’s Pensando DPU adoption will be mostly driven by hyperscale cloud deployments and there is a $5-6 billion total addressable market for...