Storage news ticker – March 8
AWS engineer Andy Warfield has a FAST'23 technical session entitled "Building and Operating a Pretty Big Storage System (My Adventures in Amazon S3)" which is viewable on Youtube.
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WANdisco aims to defy laws of data gravity
Live data mover WANdisco says that for mass data needing hyperscale compute analysis, users need to move the data to compute in the cloud, and claims normal data gravity...
IBM reboots storage portfolio
IBM reckons its customers face three pressing data challenges and is realigning its storage product portfolio to measure up to them.
Update. SVC and Storage Virtualize note added at end...
Pure Storage growth fails to impress Wall Street
Pure Storage grew Q4 revenues by 14 percent year-on-year, reported its biggest ever profit, and overtook NetApp for all-flash array run rates. Yet Wall Street analysts expected higher revenues...
Pure claims 300TB flash drives coming 2026
Pure Storage says it will build a 300TB flash drive by 2026. The company manufactures its own SSDs, called Direct Flash Modules (DFMs), which are basically a collection of...
Pure swings FlashBlade//E at unstructured data
Pure Storage says it has a new FlashBlade//E product optimized for capacity, designed to replace mainstream disk-based file and object stores with an acquisition price comparable to disk-based systems,...
Storage news roundup – March 1
Avery Design Systems has announced a validation suite supporting the Compute Express Link (CXL) industry-standard interconnect. It enables rapid and thorough system interoperability, validation and performance benchmarking of systems...
VAST Data rolling out biggest ever software release
Single QLC flash tier storage upstart VAST Data is making a song and dance about its biggest software release ever, saying it will aid VAST's larger data platform agenda.
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Hammerspace: Other vendors are trying to copy us
Hammerspace says it is making such good progress that other vendors are trying to replicate its data orchestration technology.
Hammerspace's Global Data Environment (GDE) provides a global namespace within which...
Storage news roundup – February 22
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has announced a preview of Azure HPC Cache Premium Read-Write designed to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency access to files similar to local NVMe storage. It provides lower...
Storage news collection – 17 February
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Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support releases with a support lifetime of up to three years. They are...
Two open source data lakehouse platforms will emerge, says db insight
Research house db insight says it's likely Delta Lake and Iceberg will become the main data lakehouse platforms, with proprietary alternatives being a transitional stage.
This prediction is made by...