Hammerspace boosts AI data access performance three ways

Chris Mellor -
Hammerspace has accelerated its data orchestrating platform software with faster and more scalable metadata reads, and better data placement in…
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Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel

Chris Mellor -
Dell announced Project Lightning has parallelized PowerScale, to speed file read and write performance, along with more PowerScale and ObjectScale…

VAST Data storage to star in Taiwan AI Factory

Chris Mellor -
GMI Cloud’s AI Factory datacenter in Taiwan will use VAST Data storage to feed data to 7,000 Blackwell GPUs. The…

FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost

Chris Mellor -
FMC, a Dresden, Germany-based fabless Ferro-Electric Memory company, has raised €100 million ($116.2 million) in C-round funding to take its…

MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy

Chris Mellor -
MinIO is combining its AIStor object software with Supermicro Intel Xeon 6 servers and Solidigm SSDs to craft 1 EiB…

Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals

Chris Mellor -
Quantum has sped up part-object retrieval from its ActiveScale tape backend with a Ranged Restore feature. It says customers can…

Storage news ticker - 13 November

Chris Mellor -
Anomalo introduced AIDA, its AI Data Analyst built directly on top of its data quality platform. With AIDA, every data user…

Commvault Shift event audience gets security and protection hybrid cloud news blitz

Chris Mellor -
The integration of security and data protection across the on-premises, public clouds and SaaS area at Commvault is getting broader…

InfiniBox G4 Family enhancements change the game in high-end enterprise storage

David Gordon -
The new InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 offers a lower footprint and more storage. Who wouldn't want that? Storage updates often…

Druva extends Microsoft cloud protection lineup

Chris Mellor -
The scope of customer data protection in public clouds is constantly increasing, and Druva is announcing five additional Microsoft cloud…

Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3

Chris Mellor -
Backblaze’s monthly disk drive stats tell a different story this month with odd failure rate rises Cloud storage supplier Backblaze…

CoreWeave launches ‘zero egress’ push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds

Chris Mellor -
Neocloud market leader CoreWeave wants customers to pull their AI-relevant unstructured data out of the hyperscalers and into its own…

LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut

Chris Mellor -
The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10…

The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B

Colin Gallagher, senior director, product marketing, HPE Storage -
How to stay stable when the market shifts around you After decades of stability, the virtualization landscape is shifting fast.…

VDURA Data Platform adds snapshots, SMR support to boost scale and cut costs

Chris Mellor -
Version 12 of VDURA Data Platform (VDP) scales out metadata compute, adds system-wide snapshots, and supports shingled magnetic recording (SMR)…

Qumulo adds autonomous AI management and GPU server data delivery features to Cloud Data Fabric

Chris Mellor -
Qumulo has introduced three new, AI-relevant, software capabilities: Helios AI Agent, CloudConnectAI Accelerator, and AI Networking, to its Cloud Data…

PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server

Chris Mellor -
All-flash and software-defined storage business PEAK:AIO has a single-node metadata server technology which it has evolved into a multi-node, scale-out…

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