Storage news ticker – March 29
ATTO ExpressNVM NVMe Smart Switch Host Adapters and Xinnor Software RAID (xiRAID) are combining to create a RAID system for compute-intensive, high-performance systems. Xinnor xiRAID is a...
Ruler SSDs rule Supermicro petascale servers
Supermicro has launched PCIe gen 5 storage servers in 1RU and 2RU form factors supporting 16, 24 or 32 NVMe SSDs and up to a petabyte of...
The holy Graid: RAID card with faster sequential writes
GPU-powered RAID card supplier Graid has a coming software release designed to accelerate sequential writes to 90GBps or more in RAID-5 configurations.
It ascribes...
Storage news ticker – 13 March
Data protector and manager Atempo has a partnership with Microsoft’s Azure cloud to migrate unstructured datasets to the Azure cloud using its Miria software. The Azure Storage...
Storage news ticker – March 8
AWS engineer Andy Warfield has a FAST'23 technical session entitled "Building and Operating a Pretty Big Storage System (My Adventures in Amazon S3)" which is viewable on Youtube.
PEAK:AIO provides HPC-level performance for AI with NAS simplicity and low cost
UK startup PEAK:AIO has rewrittten some of the NFS stack and LInux RAID code to get a small 1RU server with a PCIe 5 bus sending 80GB/sec...
Huawei lifts covers off unstructured data storage kit for carrier data centers
Huawei made a slew of storage announcements at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, including Blu-ray archival storage, the diskless OceanDisk for carriers’ cloud datacenters, ransomware protection...
Pure Storage growth fails to impress Wall Street
Pure Storage grew Q4 revenues by 14 percent year-on-year, reported its biggest ever profit, and overtook NetApp for all-flash array run rates. Yet Wall Street analysts expected...
Pure claims 300TB flash drives coming 2026
Pure Storage says it will build a 300TB flash drive by 2026. The company manufactures its own SSDs, called Direct Flash Modules (DFMs), which are basically a...
Pure swings FlashBlade//E at unstructured data
Pure Storage says it has a new FlashBlade//E product optimized for capacity, designed to replace mainstream disk-based file and object stores with an acquisition price comparable to...
Storage news roundup – March 1
Avery Design Systems has announced a validation suite supporting the Compute Express Link (CXL) industry-standard interconnect. It enables rapid and thorough system interoperability, validation and performance benchmarking...
Kioxia in spaaace… as part of Spaceborne Computer-2 project
Kioxia today announced that HPE servers fitted with Kioxia SSDs are being used on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the NASA and HPE Spaceborne...
VAST Data rolling out biggest ever software release
Single QLC flash tier storage upstart VAST Data is making a song and dance about its biggest software release ever, saying it will aid VAST's larger data...
Panasas’s halfway HPC house approach to the public cloud
HPC parallel scale-out file system software supplier Panasas has decided that full scale adoption of the public cloud, with its PanFS software ported there, is not needed...
Storage news roundup – February 22
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has announced a preview of Azure HPC Cache Premium Read-Write designed to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency access to files similar to local NVMe storage. It...
Storage news collection – 17 February
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Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support...
IBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
Analyst house DCIG has produced a list of the biggest market movers and shakers in the world of high-end arrays, yet it doesn't include IBM or HPE...
Storage news roundup – February 8
Data analytics startup Blockfenders is today announcing a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round from a range of institutional and angel investors. It’s developing software to help IT...