Hitachi Vantara launches industry-specific AI systems with Nvidia

Hitachi iQ is a new set of industry-specific AI systems using Nvidia DGX and HGX GPUs and Hitachi Vantara storage.…

MemVerge uses CXL to drive Nvidia GPU utilization higher

MemVerge's DRAM virtualizing Memory Machine software can use CXL to give GPUs more memory and rescue them from being stranded…

Storage news ticker – March 15

ETL connector biz Airbyte announces that there are more than 5,000 data connectors, created by users with the Airbyte no-code…

Weka shines in cloud performance and efficiency benchmark

Weka running in the public cloud has made big gains in the SPECstorage Solutions 2020 benchmark arena with clear wins…

Meta hooks up with Hammerspace for advanced AI infrastructure project

Meta has confirmed Hammerspace is its data orchestration software supplier, supporting 49,152 Nvidia H100 GPUs split into two equal clusters.…

VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers

All-flash storage array supplier VAST Data has ported its storage controller software into Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPUs to get its stored…

Quantum adding AI focus and GPUDirect support to Myriad

Myriad, the new all-flash storage software from Quantum, will support Nvidia’s GPUDirect protocol to feed data faster to GPU servers.…

Storage news ticker – February 28

German system house weSystems is working with partner Atempo and its Miria data mover to archive 40 PB of data…

IBM adds real-time malware IO detection to flash drives

IBM has added real-time detection of ransomware and other attacks using machine learning to the firmware of its latest FlashCore…

Catching up with Hitachi Vantara after strategic overhaul

Five months ago Hitachi Vantara was reorganized with a spun-off services unit, new direction, and new CEO. What has happened…

Dell scales up PowerScale – adding models with faster CPUs and PCIe 5

Dell has upped its PowerScale scaleout filer game with two models featuring Sapphire Rapids Xeon controllers and PCIe 5 buses…

Data speed limit breakers: Vcinity and Zettar

There’s data moving and there’s high-performance computing data moving, which needs to shift massive data sets at high speed with…

Simplyblock heads towards AI-powered storage tiering from fast AWS block storage base

German startup Simplyblock has won seed funding for its fast cloud-native block storage software and aims to build on it…

HPE extends GreenLake for Block Storage

HPE has expanded its GreenLake for Block Storage offering with an Alletra MP-based high-end system. It first announced subscription-based GreenLake…

Storage news ticker – February 9

Acronis released its “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” which says…

Pure Storage cuts workforce amid competitive pressures 

Pure Storage has chopped up to 275 employees globally, marking another round of layoffs. Update: Zeoli attribution of VAST having…

QiStor secures funding for key-value data store acceleration

Startup QiStor has scored pre-seed funding to develop hardware acceleration for key-value data store access. Generalized server CPUs have been…

NetApp and VAST Data take rivalry to the F1 racetrack

NetApp has partnered with the Aston Martin Aramco Racing team and VAST Data is linking up with the Williams Racing…