Storage news ticker – March 15
ETL connector biz Airbyte announces that there are more than 5,000 data connectors, created by users with the Airbyte no-code builder, in active use. Its revenues increased by four...
Weka shines in cloud performance and efficiency benchmark
Weka running in the public cloud has made big gains in the SPECstorage Solutions 2020 benchmark arena with clear wins in four of its five categories.
Update. Weka blog point...
Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services
Global datacenter services heavyweight Equinix is to replace its CEO as part of a planned transition in "late Q2."
Update. Merrie Williamson hire note added at end of story, 14...
Storage news ticker – March 14
Virtual distributed file system supplier Alluxio has been included for the second consecutive year in Forbes's "America's Best Startup Employers" which ranks the 500 top startups displaying excellence across...
Meta hooks up with Hammerspace for advanced AI infrastructure project
Meta has confirmed Hammerspace is its data orchestration software supplier, supporting 49,152 Nvidia H100 GPUs split into two equal clusters.
The parent of Facebook, Instgram and other social media platforms,...
ScaleFlux makes go-faster computational storage SoC
Computational storage drive developer ScaleFlux has a new System-on-Chip (SoC) that it claims quadruples capacity, doubles sequential read/write bandwidth and random read IOPS, and nearly doubles the random write...
VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers
All-flash storage array supplier VAST Data has ported its storage controller software into Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPUs to get its stored data into the heart of Nvidia GPU servers, transforming...
Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions
Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the latter.
Western Digital, under activist investor engagement from Elliott Management,...
NetApp brings AI-driven ransomware detection to ONTAP
NetApp is using AI/ML in ONTAP arrays to provide real-time file ransomware attack detection. Its AIPOD has also been certified by Nvidia so customers can use NetApp storage for...
Quantum adding AI focus and GPUDirect support to Myriad
Myriad, the new all-flash storage software from Quantum, will support Nvidia’s GPUDirect protocol to feed data faster to GPU servers.
Myriad was initially devised by technical director Ben Jarvis, who...
NetApp revenue surges as competitors struggle
NetApp revenue rose 5 percent for Q3 FY24 on the back of record all-flash array sales.
It reported $1.6 billion in revenues with profits of $313 million versus $65 million...
Dell eyes AI-fueled revival after fiscal 2024 downturn
Strong sequential growth in storage revenues at Dell was not enough to prevent an 11 percent revenue fall for the final fiscal 2024 quarter as the company waits in...