Quobyte v4 revamps storage for AI farms and cloud giants
Quobyte has developed v4 of its eponymous parallel file system software with an AI focus in mind.
Quobyte v4 adds cloud object storage, Arm support, and end-to-end observability. Previous point...
Backblaze offers low-cost, fast B2 cloud storage tier
Cloud storage provider Backblaze is now selling B2 Overdrive cloud storage with accelerated data access speed for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Backblaze offers its existing S3-compliant B2 service...
Varonis and Pure Storage team up on security system
Cybersecurity supplier Varonis Systems is partnering with Pure Storage to provide a data security and cyber resilience system to prevent breaches and deliver rapid recovery if disaster strikes.
Varonis competes...
Discovering Diskover’s data management discipline
US startup Diskover is a top-down open source metadata management software company with relatively few but significant customers in Media, EDA, Energy, and Life Science, and appears to have...
Scality and Veeam bundle backup and object storage in single-server appliance
Scality has combined its ARTESCA object storage with Veeam’s Backup & Replication in a single software appliance running on commodity x86 servers.
Having a single server with co-located, integrated Scality...
How Pure Storage developed the FlashBlade//EXA system
Interview. What led up to Pure Storage developing a new disaggregated system architecture for its FlashBlade//EXA?
Pure Storage was founded as an all-flash storage array (AFA) vendor, surviving and prospering...
Hammerspace secures $100M to chase AI-driven data growth
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has ingested $100 million in funding to accelerate its global expansion.
Up until two years ago, Hammerspace, founded in 2018, was financed by founder and CEO David...
NetApp joins NFL roster as official tech partner
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NetApp is sponsoring the US National Football League (NFL) becoming its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner.
The NFL is a trade association and sports league consisting of 32...
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Qumulo cranks up AI-powered NeuralCache
Qumulo has added a performance-enhancing NeuralCache predictive caching feature to its Cloud Data Fabric.
The Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) was launched in February and has a central file and object...