Storage news ticker – December 18

DNA storage startup Atlas Data Storage CEO Varun Mehta has written a blog, "Woolly Mammoth DNA Can Last 1.2 M…

Quobyte brings GPU-converged storage to AI clusters

Quobyte has introduced GPU-converged storage to bring data in its parallel file system and object storage software closer to GPUs,…

Nutanix provides tranche of sovereign cloud updates across its software portfolio

Nutanix has announced a Distributed Sovereign Cloud (DSC) offering adding more secure operations and management to multi-cloud environments. It says…

The nature of the VAST Data beast

Analysis. VAST Data has had a hectic year as the Generative AI training boom has provided an enormous tailwind for…

And then there were three - Qumulo embraces Google Cloud

Qumulo has ported its scale-out filesystem to the Google Cloud platform, making it available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. Cloud…

CTERA cites lab tests to claim its AI can head off ransomware

CTERA says independent tests show its AI-powered detection finds ransomware attacks before encryption is completed. The company provides cloud-based distributed…

Storage news ticker - 4 December 2025

Filmmaker Joseph DiGiovanna (covered by CNN, Live With Kelly and Mark, and more) has been capturing 1 frame every 30…

HPE Storage in 2025: Alletra rises

HPE doubled down on its Alletra storage products in 2025, and focussed in selling its own storage software rather than…

VAST Data says AI needs a new kind of parallel file system

Interview. Our article attempting to explain parallel file systems prompted Jan Heichler, Director of AI/HPC PreSales EMEA at VAST Data, to…

Review: Lenovo in 2025

Lenovo bought its way into the PC and x86 server businesses by buying IBM’s PC business in 2005 and x86…

Storage news ticker - 28 November 2025

Datadobi has unveiled Advanced Storage Optimizer, which is available in the latest release of StorageMAP 7.4. It is designed to…

Dell surfs AI server wave in Q3, storage was a wipeout

Dell reported record Q3 revenues of $27 billion, up 11 percent year-on-year, driven by explosive AI server demand. However, the…

Parallel file systems explained: Metadata, striping, and throughput

Parallel file systems can be confusing. They are needed in high-performance computing (HPC) to provide sufficiently high aggregate I/O bandwidth…

NetApp Q2 tops guidance with rising flash and cloud revenue

NetApp reported steady revenue growth in its latest quarter, breaking the $4 billion annual run rate level for flash array…

Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software

Hammerspace says IO500 results show its standard Linux plus NFS system software achieves HPC-class performance without proprietary parallel file system…

WEKA's new appliances can run its GPU memory wall-busting software

WEKA has made its AI-accelerating Augmented Memory Grid commercially available in the NeuralMesh AI filesystem product and launched two new…

Hitachi Vantara's high-end block storage array news

HItachi Vantara has revamped its mainstream VSP One 5000 enterprise storage arrays from a hybrid SSD+HDD design to all-NVMe flash…

Dell pushes Azure PowerScale portation, puts PowerStore in Azure Local private cloud

Dell’s PowerScale filesystem storage is available as a managed service from Azure, and its PowerStore block storage is an option for…