Storage news ticker – April 6
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Data protector Arcserve announced the availability of Arcserve Backup 19, an enhanced version of its tape air-gapping product. It delivers improved performance, security, and reliability over previous releases. Enhancements...
It’s graphic – Fungible composes GPU-as-a-service offering
Fungible has announced GPU-Connect with its DPU dynamically composing GPU resources across an Ethernet network, enabling cloud and managed service providers to offer GPUs-as-a-service.
The startup has specially designed data...
Storage news ticker – April 5
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Unstructured data manager Aparavi and cloud storage supplier Wasabi Technologies announced a partnership agreement and validated interoperability of the Aparavi Platform with Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage to deliver improved...
Watch out RocksDB – Speedb is on your key:value case
Speedb, a startup only 18 months old, has reinvented the RocksDB storage engine code and offers an API-compatible plug-in replacement speeding RocksDB-using applications.
A storage engine is the low-level code...
Networkless Pliops XDP is not a DPU
Israeli startup Pliops wants to replace the existing block interface to SSDs, based on disk drive-era thinking, with key:value store technology that enables vastly more efficient SSD operation. It...
MinIO says S3 is primary storage on the public cloud
Can an object storage system function as primary storage? The general assumption is that primary storage is the fastest storage you can get to support important applications such as...
Apple could buy Chinese flash chips for iPhones
Apple may buy NAND chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation following the loss of production at the Kioxia/Western Digital joint venture foundries due to chemical contamination.
Bloomberg reports that...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Danish cloud backup supplier Keepit announced the opening of its first two datacenters in Canada. Keepit is partnering with Equinix, enabling Keepit to provide a data storage offering that...
Nvidia Eos AI supercomputer will need a monster storage system
Nvidia is building an AI supercomputer called Eos for its own use in climate science, digital biology, and AI workloads. Eos should provide 18.4 exaFLOPS of AI performance and...
Storage news ticker – March 30
Data storage management software biz Open-E has certified Kioxia’s FL6 NVMe SSD series with its flagship ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS data storage software. A solution document has details.
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Kioxia is sampling new...
Samsung, Western Digital partner on zoned storage
Samsung and Western Digital are allying to standardize and drive broad adoption of next-generation zoned SSD data placement, processing and fabrics (D2PF) storage technologies.
The pair will initially focus on...
Micron: Mobile lets the side down in bumper Q2
Mobile devices was the one weak spot in Micron's second quarter of fiscal 2022 ended 3 March - datacenter, automotive, and storage DRAM and NAND all grew briskly otherwise
Revenues...