Storage news ticker – November 22
Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, Backblaze expects...
Quantum wants to claw its way back to profitability – and growth
Analysis. Quantum has been wading through the mire. After two reverse stock splits, a hyperscaler tape system buying stop, a second set of financial reporting problems, and an abrupt...
Capitalize on your edge with AI
COMMISSIONED: As the AI era unfolds, I have been reflecting on my journey in the tech industry.
What’s happening with AI at the edge right now reminds me of...
Pure Storage intros on-prem VMware migration service to Azure
On-prem VMware users with external block storage can face problems moving to the Azure cloud, and Pure Storage is hoping to attract customers who have those issues with its...
Panzura intros CloudFS 8.4, with improved access security
Panzura has released version 8.4 of its CloudFS core technology, claiming the latest update increases access security and lowers cloud storage costs.
CloudFS, billed by Panzura as being built on...
Lenovo hires WD disk exec to head infrastructure business
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla has been hired away from running Western Digital’s disk drive operations to lead the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) business at Lenovo.
At Lenovo, from November 11, he will...
Storage news ticker – 17 October 2024
Governance and data quality consultant Agile Lab ran a data management survey at Big Data London in September 2024. It revealed the majority of UK organizations are being held back by...
Storage hacks for hungry GPUs
COMMISSIONED: In the fast-paced world of AI, GPUs are often hailed as the quiet powerhouse driving innovation.
They’re the brainpower behind everything from chatbots and self-driving cars to algorithms detecting...
Hammerspace and Parallel Works simplify AI/HPC workload orchestration
Hammerspace and Parallel Works are collaborating on a combined offering enabling IT infrastructure, research computing, and AI teams to orchestrate compute, storage, and data workloads across sites and clouds, and...
SingleStore acquires BryteFlow to better digest ERP and CRM data
High-capacity database provider SingleStore has bought data integration platform BryteFlow to help it ingest key data workflows more easily from CRM and ERP platforms, including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and...
Pliops XDP LightningAI is a memory tier for GPU compute
The Pliops LightningAI product functions as a memory tier for GPU servers and can provide a more than 2x speed up for large language model (LLM) responses.
Pliops is an...
NetApp responds to VAST with ONTAP Data Platform for AI
Analysis NetApp is one of the first of the major incumbent storage vendors to respond to VAST Data's parallel NFS-based data access for AI work, with its internal ONTAP...