Nvidia’s GPUDirect Storage vanquishes AI bounce buffers
The datasets used in big data analytics and AI model training can be hundreds of terabytes, involving millions of files and file accesses. Conventional X86 processors are poorly suited...
This week in storage, featuring Nexsan and GitHub’s Arctic rolls
This week's data storage news roundup covers some new Nexsan arrays, and GitHub adventures in an Arctic coal mine.
Nexsan’s gen 3 Unity arrays
StorCentric’s Nexsan business unit has launched...
Catalogic copy data management adds support for HPE Nimble
Catalogic copy data management software now works with HPE Nimble storage arrays. This has been a long time coming - Catalogic said this was a roadmap objective in 2016.
Copy...
Tintri delivers database-aware storage
Tintri has released an update to its VM-aware storage platform that delivers the same level of management granularity for SQL databases. Benefits include making it easier to clone databases...
Fujitsu OEMs NetApp flash and hybrid arrays
Update: Fujitsu questions answers added 3 July 2020.
Fujitsu has switched up from reselling NetApp arrays to OEMing them. The ETERNUS AF all flash and DX hybrid arrays now get...
Ceph suppliers play catch-up in software-defined block storage market
Kaminario, Commvault and DataCore are the top software-defined block storage suppliers. However, open source Ceph is a follower in this market.
So says GigaOm, the tech analyst firm, which has...
This week in storage: Teradata in the cloud, WD Zoned SSDs and more
Teradata has become much more serious about working in the public clouds and Western Digital has an NVMe Express-bolstering present for its zoned QLC SSD initiative.
Teradata’s head...
Dell EMC rebrands VxFlex to PowerFlex, adds async rep, DR and safe snapshots
Dell EMC has confirmed PowerFlex as the new name for its scale-out, multi-hypervisor, virtual SAN and HCI VxFlex product set, and added data safety features to the OS.
PowerFlex, sold...
Let the SAN shine: Nebulon drops cloak, reveals DPU-enhanced, cloud-managed server SAN
Startup Nebulon has come out of stealth to reveal scale-out, on-premises, server SAN, block-based storage using commodity X86 servers bolstered with storage processing offload cards, along with ...
SmartX produces Optane DIMM DAX cached hyperconverged system
SmartX has announced what is probably the fastest hyperconverged infrastructure appliance in the world, if the speeds it has reported are verified.
The Chinese hyperconverged vendor has launched a Halo...
Lightbits Labs adds Kubernetes table stakes: CSI support
All-flash array startup Lightbits Labs has launched a software update that provides NVMe-based persistent volume storage for Kubernetes.
It says LightOS v2.0 provides virtual NVMe volumes to Kubernetes, delivering low...
Clouds part, soon-to-decloak startup Nebulon’s plans emerge: to start with, hardware-assisted storage
Update: No QLC, no GPU. June 24, 2020
Storage startup Nebulon plans to come out of stealth on Wednesday with a hardware-assisted, scale-out, all-flash storage array featuring real-time AI Ops...