Storage news ticker – February 2, 2022
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Infinidat has appointed Troy Fortune as the president of Infinidat Federal, Inc. Previously he was VP and GM for immixGroup, the public sector business unit of Arrow Electronics. Infinidat...
Storage news – January 28
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A person close to events here tells me it's likely Cohesity and Morgan Stanley are filling out an S1 form for Cohesity's IPO. First news on the IPO came...
WEKA dominates new SPECsolution 2020 benchmark tests
WEKA has announced in a blog that it dominates the SPECstorage Solution 2020 benchmark test with four wins in the five categories.
This benchmark is a Storage Performance Council (SPEC)...
Seagate has great fiscal 2022 second quarter and could have a boom year
Disk drive manufacturer Seagate could be positioned for a breakout fiscal 2022. It reported revenues of $3.12 billion for its second fiscal 2022 quarter, ended December 31, and up...
Storage news ticker – January 25
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SQL data lakehouse company Dremio has closed a $160 million series E funding round, bringing the company's valuation to $2 billion. The preemptive fundraising round, led by Adams Street Partners,...
Pure gets Meta (Facebook) blessing
Meta (Facebook as was) has announced its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) which it claims is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the...
ESG says Commvault + ExaGrid gets up to 15:1 dedupe ratio
Analysis house ESG says users can get a fifteenfold reduction in backup size by using an ExaGrid array as a backup target for Commvault.
Commvault's backup software delivers a 5:1...
Billion-dollar startup Solidigm is working on enterprise penta-level cell SSDs
Solidigm is not an SSD design and manufacturing weakling cast off by parent Intel because it was failing. It went because Intel needed the capital invested in it to...
Cloudian provides object back end to WEKA’s file-munching front end
Cloudian and WEKA have partnered to add exabyte-scalable backend HyperStore object storage to WEKA's scale-out, parallel Data Platform for AI filesystem software.
The two say their combined products, integrated through...
Two new Optane drives surface in New Hampshire
Intel has two new Optane 3D XPoint drives coming, if tests at a New Hampshire Interoperability Lab are anything to go by.
As reported in Tom’s Hardware, the SSD DC...
Kioxia announces detail-free speedy QLC phone flash card
Flash fabber Kioxia is sampling a thinner and denser phone flash drive, saying it has faster read and write speeds — but with no details about that, its 3D...
Storage news ticker – January 14
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A Backblaze blog claims public cloud service provider data retention minimum periods are like a data deletion tax. “Let’s call retention minimums what they really are: delete penalties. We...