Storage news ticker – February 28
German system house weSystems is working with partner Atempo and its Miria data mover to archive 40 PB of data in the Azure public cloud's Blob Storage Archive Tier....
IBM adds real-time malware IO detection to flash drives
IBM has added real-time detection of ransomware and other attacks using machine learning to the firmware of its latest FlashCore Modules (FCMs).
Update. IBM comments added at end. 4 March...
Catching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul
Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened since then?
Hitachi Vantara was the US-based storage and IT...
Dell scales up PowerScale – adding models with faster CPUs and PCIe 5
Dell has upped its PowerScale scaleout filer game with two models featuring Sapphire Rapids Xeon controllers and PCIe 5 buses to move data faster around the system.
PowerScale systems are...
Data speed limit breakers: Vcinity and Zettar
There’s data moving and there’s high-performance computing data moving, which needs to shift massive data sets at high speed with minimal interference from transmission protocol chatter. We’ve previously written...
Simplyblock heads towards AI-powered storage tiering from fast AWS block storage base
German startup Simplyblock has won seed funding for its fast cloud-native block storage software and aims to build on it to develop AI-powered storage tiering.
Two founders, CEO Robert Pankow...
HPE extends GreenLake for Block Storage
HPE has expanded its GreenLake for Block Storage offering with an Alletra MP-based high-end system.
It first announced subscription-based GreenLake for Block Storage – with general purpose Alletra 5000, Alletra...
Storage news ticker – February 9
Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says that AI-enhanced phishing affected more than 90 percent of...
Pure Storage cuts workforce amid competitive pressures
Pure Storage has chopped up to 275 employees globally, marking another round of layoffs.
Update: Zeoli attribution of VAST having a 6 percent share of the data center all-flash array...
QiStor secures funding for key-value data store acceleration
Startup QiStor has scored pre-seed funding to develop hardware acceleration for key-value data store access.
Generalized server CPUs have been augmented by specialized hardware accelerators for some time now, ranging...
NetApp and VAST Data take rivalry to the F1 racetrack
NetApp has partnered with the Aston Martin Aramco Racing team and VAST Data is linking up with the Williams Racing team as the two file storage suppliers duke it...
Storage news ticker – January 31
Australia-based data manager and orchestrator Arcitecta has hired Eric Polet as Director of Product Marketing. Previously, he served as Product Marketing Manager at Spectra Logic, where he developed strategic...