Storage news ticker – 2 June 2023
CloudCasa says it’s one of the available Kubernetes applications in the new Microsoft Transactable Container (aka Kubernetes Apps) in the Azure Marketplace. CloudCasa already provides native integration with Azure Kubernetes Service...
Qumulo cosies up to HPE, makes upgrades easier
Qumulo has introduced non-disruptive upgrades, adjustable protection policies enabling capacity reclamation from large clusters, and HPE Alletra 4110 support.
The scale-out, parallel file system...
Pliops and phoenixNAP team up to turbocharge Redis
Hardware-accelerated box-of-flash startup Pliops is partnering with IaaS provider phoenixNAP to offer petabyte-scale Redis clusters to users with in-memory-class performance.
Redis is a distributed...
ChatGPT, LLMs, and storage
Analysis: The IT analytics world is being dominated by a storm of interest in Large Language Model (LLM) machine learning and generative AI (GAI). The release of...
Panasas shrinks HPC powerhouse into edge-sized box
Panasas has halved the size of its ActiveStor Ultra parallel file system node to make a lower-cost edge datacenter box.
The ActiveStor range runs...
Kioxia doubles capacity, write speed of client gumstick SSD
Kioxia has replaced its gumstick client SSD with a new model with twice the capacity and double the random write speed of its predecessor.
DDN generates QLC SSD array for generative AI training
DDN has unveiled an upgraded A1400 X2 ExaScaler array for AI and machine learning storage workloads that uses QLC SSDs and adds a compression facility for higher...
Dell wields NeuroBlade to cut analytics time
Dell is partnering with startup NeuroBlade to put SQL query-accelerating PCIe cards in select PowerEdge servers to speed up high throughput data analytics.
NeuroBlade...
Kioxia CD7 SSD: PCIe 5 drive hits HPE servers
Kioxia has announced its datacenter SSD series is for HPE servers and arrays, using 3D NAND two generations behind its latest tech but with the latest PCIe...
Micron declares TLC NAND war on Solidigm
Micron has built a TLC SSD with 232-layer tech that's faster and more efficient than Solidigm's lower cost QLC drives. It's also launched a fast SLC SSD...
NetApp wants to be cool kid of SAN with latest all-flash array
NetApp has doubled down on its all-flash systems with a new SAN array, the ASA A-Series, and a new StorageGRID object storage system, and has added a ransomware...
New moves in AFA driven by QLC flash
A new chapter is opening in the all-flash storage array (AFA) world as QLC flash enables closer cost comparisons with hybrid flash/disk and disk drive arrays and...
Storage news ticker – 10 May
AWS has announced general availability of new storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I4g instances featuring AWS-designed Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs. With up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GiB...
Dell PowerStore gets more snapshots than a tourist
Dell is giving its all-flash PowerStore array direct integration with PowerProtect backup appliances, enabling it to provide storage nodes to VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure compute nodes for separate...
NetApp gets file storage benchmark boost
NetApp has a world-record SPEC Electronic Design Automation (EDA) score of 6300, easily exceeding the previous best result: 3,600 from a WEKA system.
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Storage news ticker – May 4
Apricorn has announced the release of the USB 10Gbps Aegis NVX, the first Apricorn encrypted device to feature an NVMe SSD inside. The NVX’s high-speed read/write capabilities at...
Solidigm makes SSD file access zippier
Solidigm has smartened up its Synergy software to make reading data from its client SSDs faster, with the P41 Plus’s QLC flash delivering up to 858,000 random...
Nvidia AI supercomputer shows its Lustre in Oracle cloud
Nvidia is running its AI supercomputer on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure with its Lustre file system relying on NVMe block access SSDs.
An Nvidia blog...