Nutanix posts solid Q1 but warns of delayed deals ahead

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Hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix reported continued growth and increased profitability in its latest quarter, but forecast a slowdown due to…
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Parallel file systems explained: Metadata, striping, and throughput

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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

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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

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

Nvidia SCADA offloads storage control path to the GPU

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The Nvidia SCADA scheme is ushering in GPU-controlled storage IO for AI inferencing workloads that will be faster than GPUDirect…

Wasabi sets itself on Fire

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Wasabi is taking on public cloud hyperscalers with fast-access object storage for AI use. Traditionally, Wasabi supplies single-tier, S3-compliant object…

CXL 4.0 doubles bandwidth and stretches memory pooling to multi-rack setups

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The fourth CXL memory sharing spec adds speed and extends distance for multi-rack systems. Derek Rohde The Computer eXpress Link…

Storage News Ticker, 21 November 2025

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Atempo is a France-based data protection company with data managing, moving and protection software products like Miria, Tina and Lina.…

Solidigm: NAND industry facing fab shortfall

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The NAND industry is facing a 3-year NAND chip output shortage as new fabs will take years to build. This…

Keepit's AI-driven SaaS app connector expansion

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SaaS app protector Keepit is using AI to increase the number of AaS apps it can protect. The company provides…

Taming data chaos: building AI-ready data platforms for the enterprise

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PARTNER CONTENT: Enterprise AI has reached a critical inflection point. Organizations are eager to build generative, agentic, and domain-specific AI…

Cohesity strategically collaborating with AWS

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Cohesity has inked a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to tie its data protection, cyber-resilience, and AI-driven analysis tools more…

Why don't storage systems last 12 years?

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PARTNER CONTENT Storage systems once followed a predictable refresh pattern: every three-to-four years for performance and every four-to-five years for…

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

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

Veeam’s lucky thirteen has twenty updates

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Version 13 of Veeam’s Data Platform software ups the company’s game in data protection coverage, security, resilience AI assistance for…

Hitachi Vantara's high-end block storage array news

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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

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

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