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...
Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework
Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range.
The main storage system suppliers are all scrambling to provide customers with reference architecture-type frameworks that place...
UALink Consortium invites new members to shape open AI interconnect standard
The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium, led by data processing and connectivity industry heavyweights, is now inviting new members to join.
The UALink effort was initiated in May 2024, and...
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...
Dell expands AI factory scope with PowerScale upgrade
Dell has enhanced PowerScale scale-out clustered file system arrays with full stack components for AI factory workloads.
We have written about VAST Data’s AI stack approach, and NetApp’s AI architectural...
VAST links up with Equinix and Cisco
VAST data is putting its AI storage and processing kit in Equinix colos and running its software on Cisco’s UCS servers as it broadens its routes to market.
The company...
Ugreen flies the flag for AI entry-level network-attached storage
Network-attached storage supplier Ugreen, which targets small firms, home offices, and consumers, has launched a new range of its NASync Series devices, bundling new AI and management features.
The devices...
VDURA appoints former Cray CEO to the board and brings back founder to drive...
VDURA, which rebranded from Panasas earlier this year, has boosted its board and formed a technical advisory board to drive its AI and HPC data infrastructure software efforts.
It has...
Storage news ticker – August 22
Open source ETL provider Airbyte says its PyAirbyte Python library, introduced in late February, has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers sync over 6 billion records of...
Western Digital all-flash OpenFlex box outpaces NetApp in GPUDirect data serving
Western Digital claims its OpenFlex Data24 system loaded with NVMe SSDs and an NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) adapter does read and write IO across an Nvidia GPUDirect link faster...
VAST’s Data Engine previewed
Analysis. VAST Data is getting ready to launch its DataEngine software, providing automated pipeline operations to make AI faster and more responsive to events. We referenced a VAST Data...
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...