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...
Storage news ticker – November 15
Data orchestrator Arcitecta has partnered with Wasabi Technologies to enable organizations to seamlessly and transparently integrate Wasabi's cloud storage into their workflows. Arcitecta's data management platform enables organizations to...
Hammerspace boosts GPU server performance with latest update
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has discovered how to add a GPU server’s local NVMe flash drives as a front end to external GPUDirect-accessed datasets, providing microsecond-level storage read and checkpoint...
MinIO releases AIStor with GPUDirect-like S3 over RDMA
Open source supplier MinIO has evolved its Enterprise Object Store software to develop the faster and more scalable AIStor for GenAI workloads, including training.
GenAI training requires shipping data at...
Solidigm, Phison both break 100 TB SSD capacity barrier
Solidigm has announced a 122 TB version of its D5-P5336 SSD the same day that Phison announced a Pascari D205V SSD with the exact same capacity.
Update: Phison drive capacity...
Micron launches world’s fastest 60 TB PCIe 5 SSD
Micron's 6550 ION SSD matches the 61.44 TB capacity of Samsung, Solidigm, and WD's competing drives, but promises higher performance as it uses the PCIe gen 5 bus instead...
Storage news ticker – November 8
An Apache Cassandra community survey found that:
Cassandra is moving to the cloud
50 percent will move to cloud – this is split evenly across different cloud deployment options
24 percent will...
Nutanix tightens ties with AWS on hybrid cloud solutions
Nutanix is getting closer to AWS, with on-prem/public cloud hybridity front and center, to both ease app migration to AWS and use AWS for on-prem extension.
It's doing this through...
NAKIVO adds Microsoft 365, Proxmox, and Spanish language support
NAKIVO has boosted its backup offering with additional VM support, Microsoft 365 protection, Spanish language adoption, and extended cybersecurity.
Sparks, Nevada-based NAKIVO was founded in 2011, five years after industry...
Veeam partners with Continuity Software to fend off ransomware attacks
Backup vendor Veeam is increasing its data security capabilities via an anti-ransomware partnership with Continuity Software to boost customer cyber-resiliency.
Continuity Software’s StorageGuard solution analyzes the security configuration of storage...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cohesity has hired Vasu Murthy as SVP and chief product officer. He comes from Rubrik, where he was VP of products – responsible for the core product, platform, and...
Paradigm4’s flexFS puts fast file front end on cloud object storage
Object storage is ill-suited to supporting AI, ML, and HPC workloads because it can't pump data fast enough to the many processors involved. File systems can do that but...