How Pure Storage developed the FlashBlade//EXA system
Interview. What led up to Pure Storage developing a new disaggregated system architecture for its FlashBlade//EXA?
Pure Storage was founded as an all-flash storage array (AFA) vendor, surviving and prospering...
Hammerspace secures $100M to chase AI-driven data growth
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has ingested $100 million in funding to accelerate its global expansion.
Up until two years ago, Hammerspace, founded in 2018, was financed by founder and CEO David...
NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner
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NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner.
The NFL is a trade association and sports league consisting of 32...
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Qumulo cranks up AI-powered NeuralCache
Qumulo has added a performance-enhancing NeuralCache predictive caching feature to its Cloud Data Fabric.
The Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) was launched in February and has a central file and object...
Panzura Symphony taps IBM tape tech to cut cloud costs for cold data
The Symphony unstructured data estate data manager from Panzura has extended its reach into IBM Storage Deep Archive territory, integrating it with S3-accessed Diamondback tape libraries.
Symphony is Panzura's software...
CoreWeave tops new GPU cloud rankings from SemiAnalysis
Research firm SemiAnalysis has launched its ClusterMAX rating system to evaluate GPU cloud providers, with performance criteria that include networking, management software, and storage capabilities.
SemiAnalysis aims to help organizations...
MinIO joins agentic AI gold rush with MCP support in AIStor
MinIO is staking its claim in the large language model (LLM) market, adding support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its AIStor software – a move sparked by...
XenData Z20 slings media files from SMB to cloud and back
XenData has launched an on-prem gateway appliance for moving Windows SMB media files to and from public cloud object storage.
XenData provides storage products, such as on-prem X-Series tape archives...
Arcitecta rolls out Mediaflux Real-Time to streamline global media workflows
Arcitecta is rolling out a real-time content delivery and media management aimed at media production pros.
Australia-based Arcitecta provides distributed data management software, its Universal Data System, supporting file and...