Astera Labs spears CXL chip funding
Silicon valley startup and new unicorn Astera Labs has raked in $150 million in funding on top of delivering its Leo CXL Memory pooling and sharing controllers.
CXL, the Compute...
Competition gets heated on Fungible’s DPU patch
Data processing unit startup Fungible is facing increasing competition as its avenues for growth become restricted and ever more fiercely contested.
The company was founded in 2015 to develop and...
Scality adds dynamic data tiering to RING
Scality has added NVMe flash and tiering support to its RING object storage product and extended its integrations at API level with Veeam backup, VMware Cloud Director, and Prometheus...
Storage news ticker – November 16
Taiwan-based Ambedded Technology has released the UniVirStor Flash Mars500 Ceph Storage Appliance: software-defined storage integrating Ceph, Ampere Altra Arm servers, and Ambedded’s Ceph management web UI. This turn-key appliance...
EIDF: Where tape storage meets artificial intelligence
The Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) has combined Spectra Logic tape storage with Cerebras wafer-scale AI so that archived datasets can be mined for insights.
Spectra's cold data storage tape...
VAST Data gets props from Nvidia for offloading energy-burning servers
Nvidia has given VAST Data an unexpected lift by publishing a report showing customers using its Bluefield server-offloading DPU in large enough numbers need fewer servers. VAST's Ceres storage...
Storage news ticker – November 14
ATTO Technology and Nyriad have teamed to integrate ATTO FastFrame 3 SmartNICs and ThunderLink Thunderbolt adapters with the Nyriad UltraIO storage system, powered by a GPU-CPU combination. The combination quadruples...
Hammerspace picks up speed in three-legged race
Hammerspace Global Data Environment (GDE) users can access files from servers, across datacenters, and global Internet links, and Hammerspace has upped the speed of all three stages, with parallel...
Storage news roundup
The SNIA has set up a Blockchain Storage Committee to address the needs of the technical community’s desire to engage in alliance-building and marketplace-driven activities, whereby all interested parties...
Supermicro partnering with GRAID and Qumulo
Supermicro is partnering with GRAID and Qumulo in two separate deals to have customers buy its servers fitted with GRAID’s GPU-powered RAID cards or used to run Qumulo's scale-out...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has announced better than expected preliminary results for Q3 2022. Revenue is expected to be between $22.0 and $22.1 million versus previous guidance...
Pure Storage pumps up Portworx
Pure Storage has announced a trifecta of Portworx upgrades for containerized app developers: a data access speed bump, new object storage and faster disaster recovery, and a fully managed...