VirtualZ and x86 server/public cloud mainframe bridging software
Two years ago we reviewed VirtualZ with its Lozen IBM mainframe data access and PropelZ mainframe data extract products. Now it has two more, FlowZ and Zaac, and is...
Pure’s control plane gets more intelligent, more secure
Control plane enhancements for Pure Storage arrays and software stack are enabling customer admins to manage and secure fleets of Pure arrays and cloud instances, and their workloads more...
Dell refreshes storage lines with QLC flash and beefed-up security
Storage market leader Dell has updated four of its block, file, and backup storage product lines with higher-capacity SSDs and stronger cyber-resilience.
The company says these updated arrays and appliances...
VDURA names RAID pioneer Garth Gibson as CTO
VDURA has appointed RAID and parallel file system developer Garth Gibson as its first chief technology and AI officer (CTAIO) to reinvent the storage stack for AI.
Gibson co-invented RAID...
Storage News Ticker – 22 August
Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says...
Storage and data teams need to talk
Interview. Blocks and Files is a storage-focussed outlet that has progressed, with the industry, into data access, management and AI pipeline feeding. We know, as does everyone else, that...
Exploring Liqid’s composability
Interview. Liqid has announced composability products enabling host server apps to access dynamically-orchestrated GPU server systems built from pools of GPU, memory, and storage, focused on AI inferencing and...
Storage news ticker – 4 August
Data manager and protector Arctera has updated its Arctera Insight Platform to reduce the compliance risks associated with AI deployments. The new capabilities enable organisations to capture the input and output...
Where to point your RAG: Sourcing proprietary data for LLMs and AI agents
Analysis: There are many places within IT infrastructure that organizations can use to get a single proprietary data source for their large language models and AI agents doing RAG...
Storage news ticker – July 18
AWS said customers can boot Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts using boot volumes backed by NetApp on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage FlashArray,...
Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount
Beleaguered storage vendor Quantum, which replaced CEO and chairman Jamie Lerner in June and CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard earlier this month, has made “a very large reduction” in staff,...
Quantum and Chief Revenue Officer to part ways
Henk Jan Spanjaard, Quantum Corp's Chief Revenue Officer, will be the latest exec to leave the company, according to an SEC filing by the beleaguered business. The 8-K, filed...