Lenovo reports third straight quarter of double-digit growth
Lenovo reported its third consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth, with all three business units contributing at double-digit levels.
Revenues in the quarter ending December 31, 2024 were $18.8 billion...
VAST Data expands into block storage and event broking
VAST Data has added block access to its existing file and object protocol support along with Kafka event broking to provide real-time data streaming to AI, ML, and analytic...
How constant frustration drives storage developments
Comment Storage is always in flux, from underlying media to new ways to access on-drive storage and specialized large language model databases. Workloads need more data. They need it...
Azure Files on disk get SSD-style provisioned billing
Microsoft is offering more predictable billing costs on its Azure public cloud service for disk-based file storage similar to the provisioning style of its SSD file storage as an...
StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs
StorPool is developing a Disaster Recovery Engine (DRE) for Linux-based virtual machines based on site-to-site replication between its storage arrays.
A Linux KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) system has, like VMware,...
Storage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Aerospike says v...
Backblaze reveals best and worst disk drives with 2024 failure rate stats
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report.
The company had 301,120 hard drives used to store data as of the end of last...
Qumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge.
Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its...
Panzura’s upgraded software has halfway-house high availability and faster remote office data access
Just two months after Panzura released v8.4 of its CloudFS core technology, it has pumped out v8.5, claiming it delivers instant recovery and “unparalleled resilience.”
CloudFS is the underlying global...
Flash-centric Regatta OLxP database working on faster access for AI agents
Israeli startup Regatta is building a scale-out, transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP) relational database (OLxP) with extensibility to semi-structured and unstructured data. The company says it is a drop-in replacement...
Very large AI model training uses object storage
HPC expert Glenn Lockwood says that the largest AI language models are being trained with object storage, not file storage.
AI model training needs unstructured data. Most unstructured data is...
Storage news ticker – February 3
The UK-based part of Rubrik Backup-as-a-Service supplier ADP (Assured Data Protection) is partnering cyber-security, comms and tech MSP Wavenet – the UK's largest independent IT MSP – to provide...