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...
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 – July 17 2024
Data protector Acronis says its flagship Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office product is reverting to its original name – Acronis True Image – with a new version release. It has...
Storage news ticker – July 1
Cloud-native data protector Alcion has joined Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Venture Network as an inaugural startup partner. Several members of its leadership team – including co-founders Niraj Tolia and Vaibhav...
Don’t mind if I DPU: Pliops and Kalray continue merger talks as former shows...
Two DPU startups, Kalray and Pliops, have been working on a merger for several months, with Pliops recently announcing an integration with data orchestrator Hammerspace.
Pliops is an Israeli data...
Storage news ticker – June 14
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VAST Data joins forces with Cisco to boost AI datacenters
VAST Data is the first storage provider to be integrated with Cisco’s Nexus 9000 Ethernet switches in the networking giant’s Nexus HyperFabric for Ethernet AI stacks connected to Nvidia...
Storage news ticker – June 4
Startup AirMettle has joined the STAC Benchmark Council. AirMettle's analytical data platform is designed to accelerate exploratory analytics on big data – from records to multi-dimensional data (e.g. weather)...
Why GenAI has IT in the catbird seat
COMMISSIONED: In baseball, “sitting in the catbird seat" means holding a position of strategic advantage. Like a batter with no strikes and three balls.
The legendary commentator for the Dodgers,...
Dell unveils PowerStore Prime with enhanced NVMe performance and scalability
Dell is upgrading its PowerStore software to PowerStore Prime at Dell Technologies World 2024 in Las Vegas, as well as introducing a QLC (4 bits/cell) model to increase storage...
RAAAM wants to shrink SRAM on-chip memory
Israeli startup RAAAM Memory Technologies has announced $4 million in seed funding to develop a System-on-Chip (SoC) SRAM replacement.
Robert Giterman, RAAAM co-founder and CEO, said in a statement: “RAAAM’s...
StoneFly serves up triple-decker air-gap sandwich
StoneFly has over 10,000 customers, but you've probably never heard of it. It supplies a unified SAN, NAS and object storage system has a three-layer virtual air gap system.
The...