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...
How VAST Data could realize Thinking Machines’ vision
Comments by VAST Data co-founders CEO Renen Hallak and CMO Jeff Denworth suggest the company is going to develop data infrastructure software that can help fulfill the vision of...
Storage news ticker – March 29
Cisco's HyperFlex hyperconverged system is embracing disaggregated storage. A HyperFlex iSCSI feature can provide storage outside of the HyperFlex cluster. This makes it equivalent to HPE Nimble's DHCI design....