Dell scales up PowerScale – adding models with faster CPUs and PCIe 5
Dell has upped its PowerScale scaleout filer game with two models featuring Sapphire Rapids Xeon controllers and PCIe 5 buses to move data faster around the system.
PowerScale systems are...
Data speed limit breakers: Vcinity and Zettar
There’s data moving and there’s high-performance computing data moving, which needs to shift massive data sets at high speed with minimal interference from transmission protocol chatter. We’ve previously written...
Kioxia’s 5-quarter-long slump bottoming out
NAND and SSD supplier Kioxia’s latest results show its multi-quarter revenue trough is has passed its low point.
The Japanese foundry and flash drive manufacturer announced its third fiscal 2023...
Storage news ticker – February 19
Data intelligence supplier Alation has put out a Data Culture Maturity Assessment framework to help organizations measure the value of their data culture. The assessment applies the four core tenets...
Professor Onur Mutlu and team win Huawei OlympusMons award for storage research
Computer science Professor Onur Mutlu has won a Huawei OlympusMons award for far-reaching research on data placement tech and NAND chips.
The OlympusMons awards started in 2019 to recognize and...
Run:ai in full AI stack deal with VAST Data
VAST Data is hooking up with AI stack orchestrator Run:ai to provide storage and data infrastructure services for Run:ai’s AI tool chain and framework management for GPUs in a...
HPE extends GreenLake for Block Storage
HPE has expanded its GreenLake for Block Storage offering with an Alletra MP-based high-end system.
It first announced subscription-based GreenLake for Block Storage – with general purpose Alletra 5000, Alletra...
Storage news ticker – February 9
Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says that AI-enhanced phishing affected more than 90 percent of...
Pure Storage cuts workforce amid competitive pressures
Pure Storage has chopped up to 275 employees globally, marking another round of layoffs.
Update: Zeoli attribution of VAST having a 6 percent share of the data center all-flash array...
NetApp, SpectraLogic link up for on-prem archival storage
SpectraLogic is providing validated on-premises object archival storage on tape for NetApp StorageGRID systems as an affordable alternative to S3-based public cloud long-term retention.
StorageGRID is NetApp’s S3-based object storage...
QiStor secures funding for key-value data store acceleration
Startup QiStor has scored pre-seed funding to develop hardware acceleration for key-value data store access.
Generalized server CPUs have been augmented by specialized hardware accelerators for some time now, ranging...
Storage news ticker – February 4
Data protector Acronis has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP). MISA members have...