Storage news ticker – 19 April 2024
Cohesity says the French Red Cross (Croix-Rouge française) has been a customer in migrating, backing up, and protecting its data for almost two years. Cohesity’s DataProtect and Data Cloud...
Micron unveils QLC NAND SSD with more than 200 layers
Micron has launched a 2500 QLC NAND internal fit client product that’s faster than its 2550 TLC predecessor, despite TLC NAND typically being quicker than QLC NAND.
TLC (triple level...
Seagate, Storj, Tuxera and Western Digital get NABbed
It's time for the National Association of Broadcasters show – NAB 2024 – at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and storage suppliers are vying to see who has the...
Quantum getting SMB speed boost for StorNext and Myriad
Quantum is using SMB IP from Finnish outfit Tuxera to boost its StorNext file management and Myriad operating system software products.
Tuxera produces embedded file systems and data networking software....
Storage news ticker – March 27
DataStax has integrated with Microsoft's Semantic Kernel to help developers build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and vectorize data with Astra DB and Semantic Kernel's extensible open source SDK for AI...
Samsung to offer SSDs on subscription
Samsung has published a blog discussing customers renting its petabyte-scale SSD (PBSSD) architecture products through a MinIO partnership.
It's not that Samsung actually has a petabyte-capacity SSD – more that...
Hitachi Vantara launches industry-specific AI systems with Nvidia
Hitachi iQ is a new set of industry-specific AI systems using Nvidia DGX and HGX GPUs and Hitachi Vantara storage.
Hitachi Vantara is reshaping itself with a renewed focus on...
MemVerge uses CXL to drive Nvidia GPU utilization higher
MemVerge's DRAM virtualizing Memory Machine software can use CXL to give GPUs more memory and rescue them from being stranded waiting for memory loading.
Update: GDDR6 is not HBM and...
Storage news ticker – March 15
ETL connector biz Airbyte announces that there are more than 5,000 data connectors, created by users with the Airbyte no-code builder, in active use. Its revenues increased by four...
Weka shines in cloud performance and efficiency benchmark
Weka running in the public cloud has made big gains in the SPECstorage Solutions 2020 benchmark arena with clear wins in four of its five categories.
SPECstorage Solutions 2020 is...
Meta hooks up with Hammerspace for advanced AI infrastructure project
Meta has confirmed Hammerspace is its data orchestration software supplier, supporting 49,152 Nvidia H100 GPUs split into two equal clusters.
The parent of Facebook, Instgram and other social media platforms,...
VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers
All-flash storage array supplier VAST Data has ported its storage controller software into Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPUs to get its stored data into the heart of Nvidia GPU servers, transforming...