Storage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw…
GigaOm ranks top UDM and STaaS vendors – but are there too many?
Research house GigaOm has re-evaluated unstructured data management (UDM) and Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) suppliers in updated Radar and Sonar reports. It reviewed…
IBM boosts Storage Scale with content-aware AI integration
IBM Storage Scale, the longstanding parallel file system, now includes content-awareness to enhance its retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capability. Storage Scale…
DDN unveils Inferno and xFusionAI with hybrid file-object tech
Analysis: DDN launched its Inferno fast object appliance and xFusionAI hybrid file+object technology at Nvidia’s GTC 2025. We examine both…
Pure Storage expands AI capabilities with Nvidia certification
Pure Storage has worked with Nvidia to enable existing and new FlashBlade customers to provide data storage for AI models…
Storage vendors rally behind Nvidia at GTC 2025
Twelve storage suppliers lined up in a carefully choreographed parade at Nvidia GTC 2025 to help Jensen Huang sell more…
Legacy systems fade as arrays shift to extreme scale and parallelism for AI
Analysis: The storage array industry is undergoing a massive pivot to extreme scale and parallel, multi-protocol data delivery for AI…
MinIO AIStor 2.0 embraces Nvidia GPUDirect, BlueField-3, and NIM for faster AI inference
The MinIO v2.0 AIStor update adopts Nvidia GPUDirect, BlueField superNICS and NIM microservices to bring object data faster to AI…
Budget data service IDrive adds replication to object storage buckets
IDrive has jacked up its e2 offering, adding object replication and a brace of other enterprise level services. Customers of…
Storage news ticker – March 6
Kubernetes app data protector CloudCasa has integrated with SUSE Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension. Users can install…
Supermicro says Fibre Channel is on the way out, but SAS lives on and NVMe is rising
Interview: We had the opportunity to discuss storage servers with Supermicro and find out how it designs and customizes them…
MinIO hires business and marketing execs amid object AI rush
Open source object code developer MinIO has appointed its first chief business and marketing officers as AI training and inferencing…
Storage news ticker – March 4
Cloudian will present two technical sessions and demos of its AI-optimized storage at Nvidia GTC 2025, Booth 219, in the…
Storage challengers threaten incumbents as acquisition pressure mounts
Comment Massive scale-out, file, and object storage winds are blowing through the incumbent storage supplier halls and threaten to become…
Storage news ticker – February 28
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze announced results for Q4 2024 and the full year. Q4 revenues were $33.8 million,…
Private equity pair make Egnyte majority buy
Cloud content collaborator Egnyte is now majority-owned by a pair of private equity companies. GI Partners (GI) and TA Associates (TA)…
DDN on files, objects and AI training and inference
Interview DDN has been supplying high speed file access with its EXAScaler Lustre parallel file system software for many years.…
StorONE advances auto-tiering with AI-driven TierONE
StorONE is offering updated storage tiering with AI-powered TierONE software and improved data protection with SnapONE. The company claims customers…