Pure gets Meta (Facebook) blessing
Meta (Facebook as was) has announced its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) which it claims is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the...
Decentralised storage provider Filebase reveals its roadmap
CEO and co-founder of Filebase, Joshua Noble, told attendees at a virtual IT press tour about items on the Filebase roadmap.
We first learnt about Filebase in April last year,...
Cloudian provides object back end to WEKA’s file-munching front end
Cloudian and WEKA have partnered to add exabyte-scalable backend HyperStore object storage to WEKA's scale-out, parallel Data Platform for AI filesystem software.
The two say their combined products, integrated through...
Dell amps up its APEX hybrid multi-cloud portfolio – with more to come
Dell Technologies is announcing storage and data protection services across the on-premises and multiple public cloud environments, along with enhanced Kubernetes support for enterprises adopting hybrid multi-cloud and cloud-native...
Hyve: busy hyperscaler bees buy hardware, not software
Hyve Solutions sells storage hardware to its hyperscaler customers, but not software — because they don’t want it. What, then, do hyperscalers want?
Hyve is a TD Synnex business unit...
Strategic move: NetApp’s top legal eagle becomes Chief Strategy Officer
In a seemingly unusual move, NetApp has appointed Matt Fawcett, its now ex-General Counsel, as Chief Strategy Officer.
Fawcett has been NetApp's top internal lawyer for 10 years, being appointed...
Exec advisors to guide Hammerspace on strategy and tactics
Global data access software startup Hammerspace has set up an Executive Advisory Board to help ensure its products and messages respond to the right business problems – and so...
Brrr – Coldago goes on its annual file and object mapping exercise
Research analyst Philippe Nicolas, otherwise known as monsieur Coldago, has issued its 2021 editions of its file and object storage maps, which list and ranks vendors. Surprisingly WekaIO is...
Panzura sets up white glove migration service to its cloud
Cloud-based file collaborator Panzura has launched Managed Migrations — a service to move customers’ on-premises and hybrid NAS and object data to its cloud.
Managed Migrations includes dedicated engineering experts,...
NetApp’s all-flash range-topping A900: new stuff in an old box
NetApp has a new high-end all-flash array, the A900, more than doubling the capacity of the previous top end A800 system and a performance upgrade for the existing A700....
NetApp appoints chief product officer who doesn’t look after all products
NetApp has appointed its first chief product officer, Harvinder (Harv) Bhela, who will look after most — but not all — of NetApp’s products.
Bhela starts in January 2022, and...
Storage news ticker – December 3
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An AWS blog contains a great summary of re:Invent 2021 announcements.
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Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS helps developers using Amazon Aurora databases to detect, diagnose, and resolve database performance issues...