Storage news ticker – June 26
Google has announced GA of BigLake support for Apache Iceberg, which has been in preview since October 2022. BigLake is a storage facility that unifies data warehouses and lakes...
Seagate etailers leak PCIe 5 gaming SSD details
The first Seagate PCIe gen 5 SSD, FireCuda 540, is incoming and we know because Amazon and another etailer leaked the details before Seagate had announced the drive.
Tom’s Hardware...
Storage news ticker – June 23
Real-time data platform supplier Aerospike has unveiled a new graph database with native support for the Gremlin query language. Aerospike claims today’s graph databases fail to perform at scale...
Commvault and VAST team up for faster restores
VAST Data and Commvault are developing a co-engineered system to store backups in less space and restore them faster.
Commvault’s data protection software is widely used by enterprises while VAST...
Micron doubles phone card flash speed
Using 232-layer NAND and the JEDEC UFS v4.0 standard, Micron has doubled its smartphone card speed compared to previous 176-layer product.
Update: Micron UFS card specificity for smartphone memory...
Xinnor, ScaleFlux squish the RAID rebuild
Xinnor says its software RAID with ScaleFlux compressing SSDs mitigates RAID rebuild impact, meaning less node-level redundancy with distributed data apps.
RAID is used to guard against drive failures when...
InterSystems taps Volumez to provide storage
Block storage provisioning startup Volumez is rapidly expanding its capabilities, adding Azure cloud support to the existing AWS cloud and supplying storage for InterSystems’ IRIS cloud database.
Volumez provides a...
Storage news roundup – 19 June
Open-source data integrator Airbyte has launched checkpointing, column selection, and schema propagation features, now available on both Airbyte Cloud and Airbyte Open Source. By creating a saved state of...
Pure Storage sneaking up on NetApp in AFA Olympics
Analysts have ranked Pure Storage third in revenue share in the all-flash external storage market in a placement that shows its sales just under those of storage giant NetApp.
The...
VAST Data’s Elemental Pixarification for Disney
VAST Data's single tier flash storage has been used by Pixar to feed data to the 150,000 cores needed to render the Elemental movie – six times more cores...
Western Digital HAMR tech ’18 months away’
Western Digital could have HAMR disk drives in volume production in 12 to 18 months, according to the company's CFO. He also denied that SSDs will make HDDs obsolete.
This...
Pure intros fresh FlashArray features for enterprise
Pure Storage announced improved FlashArray hardware and software, an unstructured data storage FlashArray system, and a ransomware recovery guarantee at its Las Vegas Pure Accelerate event.
FlashArray is Pure’s line...