Storage news ticker – February 21
Cloud and backup storage provider Backblaze is partnering with Kandji to deploy Backblaze with zero-touch across a fleet of Macs to back up their data. More info here.
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Nvidia says Spectrum-X adaptive routing can boost storage fabric bandwidth
Nvidia says its InfiniBand technology-infused Spectrum-X Ethernet networking can increase storage fabric network read bandwidth by almost 50 percent.
Spectrum-X is a combination of the Spectrum-4 ASIC-based Ethernet switch offering...
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global.
The deal will give Quantum access to additional equity capital and liquidity. Limited initially...
Broadcom unveils Emulex Secure HBAs with post-quantum encryption
Emulex Secure host bus adapters (HBAs) from Broadcom now include post-quantum encryption algorithms and zero trust architecture to secure storage area network (SAN) data in flight.
HBAs are the endpoints...
Spectra Logic optical SAS switch expands tape connectivity
Spectra Logic has an optical SAS switch supporting 100 meter distances between servers and tape drives, providing connectivity cheaper than Fiber Channel.
Its OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch supports the SAS-4...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage News Ticker – 26 November
45Drives has announced the Stornado F16, its most powerful storage server to date. It has a 2RU chassis with:
AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs, expandable to 4TB of memory,...
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...
All flash array sales give NetApp Q2 topline a boost
The latest quarterly results for NetApp were lifted again by record all-flash array sales.
Revenues in its Q2, ended October 25, 2024, were $1.66 billion, up 6.1 percent year-over-year...
HPE announces object storage software for Alletra MP
The HPE Alletra file and block storage portfolio has gained object storage with the Alletra MP X10000 for large-scale unstructured data lakes and digital repositories.
It is designed for exabyte...
WEKA unveils WARRP reference architecture and previews Nvidia Grace-powered storage cluster
WEKA is previewing its parallel file system working on a storage server cluster powered by Nvidia’s Grace Superchips, and has developed its WEKA AI RAG Reference Platform (WARRP) reference architecture to...
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...