Pure Storage and Nutanix – the new incumbents
Though Pure Storage and Nutanix can now be regarded as incumbents, they still behave like growth-hungry startups.
Nutanix went public in 2016 following Pure's 2015 IPO. Since then Nutanix has...
Storage news ticker – 16 February
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Broadcom announced the availability of the industry's most secure and highest density Gen-7 64Gbit/sec Fibre Channel switch platform: the Brocade 128-port G730 Switch. It also announced the industry's first...
SK hynix unveils DRAM processor-in-memory chip
Memory and NAND manufacturer SK hynix has demonstrated processor-in-memory (PIM) technology with a sample graphics memory chip using it.
Its GDDR6-AiM chip (AiM meaning Accelerator in Memory) adds computational functions...
WD cuts out DRAM for performance boost on new midrange gaming SSD
Western Digital has quietly slipped a new PCIe 4 SSD for gaming into its range, which is faster than the old PCIe 3 model but not as quick as...
We’ve done disk-to-disk backup. It’s time we talked about flash-to-flash
With 1990 to 2010 being the era of disk-to-disk (D2D) backup, doesn't it make sense – with the rise of all-flash arrays – to have flash-to-flash (F2F) backup?
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Ocient tames data munching adtech monster
Customer Story. Real-time bidding to place online ads on websites like the one you are looking at now is fuelling enormous growth in stored bid records for analysis by ad...
Storage news ticker – February 11
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The CXL (Computer Express Link) Consortium announced the acceptance of Gen-Z Consortium's assets and the Gen-Z specification, and will post the Gen-Z specification as an archive on CXL Consortium's public...
VAST becomes backend Commvault target and tech alliance partner
Commvault backup data can be stored in VAST Data's scale-out file storage systems in a new partnership.
VAST's all-flash Universal Storage system provides fast backup data ingest and restoration and...
IBM constructs CyberVault around new FlashSystem family
IBM is fortifying its new PCIe 4-enhanced FlashSystem family with CyberVault features designed to detect, prevent and recover from malware attacks.
Update; gen 3 FlashCore Module information added. More...
Storage news ticker – February 7
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Computational storage startup Eideticom has been assigned two patents: 10,996,892 for "Apparatus and Method for Controlling Data Acceleration" and 11,231,868 for "System and Method for Performing Computational Storage Utilizing...
Pure Storage finding kinship with Kyndryl
All-flash array vendor Pure Storage is partnering with IBM infrastructure services spin-off Kyndryl in a global alliance.
Kyndryl says it will become a key delivery partner for Pure and deliver...
VAST Data becoming vaster in stagnant marketplace
All-flash storage supplier VAST Data has international expansion and development plans for Europe and Asia.
VAST has opened up operations in the UK, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, Czech Republic, Middle...