Storage news roundup – 9 August 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze pulled in $31.3 million revenues during calendar Q2, up 27 percent YoY, and it reported a $10.3 million loss versus the $14.3 million net loss...
Pliops and Kalray merger is off
The merger talks between DPU accelerator card builder Pliops and massively parallel DPU supplier Kalray have ended.
Israel-based Pliops is adding an AI feature set to its XDP (Extreme Data...
Bringing Lucidity to AWS, Azure and GCP block storage
Startup Lucidity claims its Autoscaler can automatically scale public cloud block storage up or down dynamically – depending on workload – without downtime, saving up to 70 percent of...
IBM Storage Scale using Blue Vela AI supercomputer
IBM's Vela AI supercomputer, described here, was not powerful enough for IBM Research’s AI training needs. In 2023, it began the Blue Vela development to supply the major expansion...
Storage news ticker – August 2
Data protector Acronis has shared research from the first half of 2024 in its biannual cyberthreats report, “Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2024” The report found that email attacks have...
Surprise move as Pure Storage invests in ceramic storage tech
Fast access all-flash array vendor Pure Storage has indicated an interest in long-term archival storage by investing in ceramic storage startup Cerabyte and gaining a board seat.
Cerabyte is developing...
Pure Storage CTO discusses future scalability challenges in data storage
Pure Storage's International CTO thinks we’re rushing towards scalability limits in storage, networking, and software dataset size.
Alex McMullan offered Pure Storage's stance on the scalability topic, its dimensions and...
ePlus offers NetApp’s Keystone storage system as-a-service
US-headquartered ePlus has expanded its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) portfolio by taking the wraps off ePlus STaaS with NetApp Keystone.
As part of the NetApp Keystone Partner program, the ePlus offering combines...
Panzura goes on a Moonwalk, acquires hybrid cloud outfit
Panzura says it is buying Moonwalk Universal for its hybrid cloud unstructured data estate scanning, migration and tiering technology, to help customers get AI-ready.
Update: Waldschmidt views on Panzura enablement...
China’s DapuStor using Pliops to accelerate NoSQL storage engine
DapuStor storage systems will run NoSQL databases faster through a Pliops data processing unit partnership, we're told.
Israel-based Pliops has developed its XDP (Extreme Data Processor) AccelKV, with key:value store...
CTERA gets $80m war chest for AI and acquisitions
CTERA has raised $80 million in primary and secondary funding from private investor PSG Equity.
A week after cloud file services supplier Nasuni secured a majority investment of up to...
DataCore gets AI development funding dollars
Storage software biz DataCore has loaded up its AI development coffers with $60 million to fuel the integration of AI technologies.
The company, founded in 1998, is historically averse to...