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...
China’s YanRong integrates KVCache with its filesystem to accelerate AI inferencing
By integrating KVCache into its filesystem, YanRong says it has dramatically improved the KV cache hit rates and long-context processing, making AI inferencing cheaper.
Chinese storage software supplier YanRong provides...
Google Cloud’s NetApp Volumes will link to Vertex AI
Google Cloud and NetApp are extending the NetApp Volumes storage service to work better with Vertex AI, support larger data sets, separately scale capacity and performance, and meet regional...
Google Cloud offering managed Lustre service with DDN
DDN is partnering Google Cloud with its Google Cloud Managed Lustre, powered by DDN offering.
The Lustre parallel file system enables Google Cloud to offer file storage and fast access...
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...
Storage winners and losers in Trump’s tariff-happy world
Analysis Trump’s tariffs will affect US companies with multinational supply chain components and finished products imported to America, and products from foreign suppliers imported to the US. They will...
Panzura Symphony taps IBM tape tech to cut cloud costs for cold data
The Symphony unstructured data estate data manager from Panzura has extended its reach into IBM Storage Deep Archive territory, integrating it with S3-accessed Diamondback tape libraries.
Symphony is Panzura's software...
CoreWeave tops new GPU cloud rankings from SemiAnalysis
Research firm SemiAnalysis has launched its ClusterMAX rating system to evaluate GPU cloud providers, with performance criteria that include networking, management software, and storage capabilities.
SemiAnalysis aims to help organizations...
XenData Z20 slings media files from SMB to cloud and back
XenData has launched an on-prem gateway appliance for moving Windows SMB media files to and from public cloud object storage.
XenData provides storage products, such as on-prem X-Series tape archives...
Arcitecta rolls out Mediaflux Real-Time to streamline global media workflows
Arcitecta is rolling out a real-time content delivery and media management aimed at media production pros.
Australia-based Arcitecta provides distributed data management software, its Universal Data System, supporting file and...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has been granted. The planning documents say: “This datacenter will...