Nvidia AI supercomputer shows its Lustre in Oracle cloud
Nvidia is running its AI supercomputer on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure with its Lustre file system relying on NVMe block access SSDs.
An Nvidia blog details how its DGX Cloud uses...
CECT tops SPC-1 for price with Optane SSDs
SPC-1, the performance benchmark dominated by Chinese suppliers, has claimed a new price/performance champion – CECT using 240 Optane SSDs.
The Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark measures storage array business-critical...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
Volumez swells thanks to $20M A-round
SaaS-based storage orchestrator Volumez has raised $20 million.
This A-round of funding was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from existing investors Viola Ventures and Pitango. Viola and Pitango's...
Storage news ticker – April 14
Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems announced GA of the fully-managed 11:11 Managed SteelDome in partnership with SteelDome Cyber. This provides secure, scalable and cost-efficient storage of customers’ unstructured,...
Feel the Power: IBM intros Direct PCIe-attach drives
IBM now provides direct, switchless access to a Power server’s flash drives, the aim being to enable more cores to access more drives with higher data access bandwidth.
The Power...
Alletra Storage MP: A first look
With its Alletra Storage MP tech HPE is standardizing its storage array hardware on scale-out storage nodes; Proliant server chassis with all-flash NVMe-fabric connected local storage, and Aruba switches....
StorPool: The traditional SAN is dead. Arise, software-defined multi-controller block storage
Interview StorPool CEO Boyan Ivanov and his team see their block storage access software, running on multiple controllers, as an example of the "post-SAN" storage that’s needed in an...
Storage news ticker – April 5
Sorin Faibish has resigned from his director of product solutions role at block storage migrator Cirrus Data Solutions. He is now a performance engineer at NAS supplier OpenDrives.
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ALTR, an...
HPE GreenLake taps VAST Data for file storage
HPE has added block and file storage services to its GreenLake subscription program, based on new Alletra Storage MP hardware, with the file service itself based on VAST Data...
Quantum enters storage software with Myriad
Quantum has written a unified and scaleout file and object storage software stack called Myriad, designing it for flash drives and using Kubernetes-orchestrated microservices to lower latency and increase...
Pliops looking to move onto BlueFields
Accelerated NVMe JBOF controller supplier Pliops is thinking about porting its software to NVIDIA’s BlueField DPUs.
Pliops supplies its XDP (eXtreme Data Processor) to offload low-level storage stack processing from...