Storage news ticker – 10 May
AWS has announced general availability of new storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I4g instances featuring AWS-designed Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs. With up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GiB...
Dell PowerStore gets more snapshots than a tourist
Dell is giving its all-flash PowerStore array direct integration with PowerProtect backup appliances, enabling it to provide storage nodes to VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure compute nodes for separate...
Invested: WANdisco appoints turnaround CEO
WANdisco investor Stephen Kelly, who called out the company's management when the sales misreporting crisis erupted in mid-March, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO by...
Western Digital beats guidance by gnat’s whisker
Western Digital saw Q3 2023 revenues sink 36 percent annually as the HDD and SSD downcycle continues, but it did beat its guidance – just.
Confluent profitability keeps streaming away
Streaming data storage and analysis platform Confluent continued making heavy financial losses during calendar Q1 of 2023, according to recently filed profit and loss accounts.
Storage news ticker – May 4
Apricorn has announced the release of the USB 10Gbps Aegis NVX, the first Apricorn encrypted device to feature an NVMe SSD inside. The NVX’s high-speed read/write capabilities at...
Gartner: Begun the cloud file services wars have
A report put out at the end of February titled “Modernize Your File Storage and Data Services for the Hybrid Cloud Future” by Gartner research VP Julia...
Commvault sees fewer large deals in flat but guidance-exceeding quarter
Commvault's earnings were hit in the last quarter by a degree of large deal buyer reluctance, as revenues flattened.
Update: Financial analysts and earnings...
Storage news ticker – May 2
Open source data synchronizer Airbyte has a new API, complementing its existing cloud UI, that makes it possible to automate data movement and manage large deployments. Other...
Nvidia AI supercomputer shows its Lustre in Oracle cloud
Nvidia is running its AI supercomputer on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure with its Lustre file system relying on NVMe block access SSDs.
An Nvidia blog...