Don’t mind if I DPU: Pliops and Kalray continue merger talks as former shows...
Two DPU startups, Kalray and Pliops, have been working on a merger for several months, with Pliops recently announcing an integration with data orchestrator Hammerspace.
Pliops is an Israeli data...
Eminent Sun alumnus says NFS must die
Tom "Pugs" Lyon, Sun’s eighth employee and NFS architect, argues that NFS must die and give way to a block-based protocol for large dataset sharing in the cloud.
He gave...
Nutanix expands AI initiatives with new partnerships
Nutanix is building on its Cisco deal, Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, the GenAI boom, containerization, PostgreSQL interest, and green initiatives with a slew of announcements at its .NEXT conference in...
Dell unveils PowerStore Prime with enhanced NVMe performance and scalability
Dell is upgrading its PowerStore software to PowerStore Prime at Dell Technologies World 2024 in Las Vegas, as well as introducing a QLC (4 bits/cell) model to increase storage...
Dell PowerScale storage upgraded in grab for AI model training
Dell has announced a PowerScale F910 system with a parallel file system.
PowerScale is Dell’s name for the acquired EMC Isilon scaleout filers. Up until now there were five all-flash...
HPE expands GreenLake block storage to AWS
HPE has extended its block storage offering to AWS and scaled up its Alletra MP block service.
The GreenLake company says it can now “manage block storage across hybrid cloud...
Panasas pivots to SaaS under VDURA brand
Legacy parallel file system supplier Panasas is exiting the hardware biz and embracing the public cloud as it rebrands itself VDURA.
Currently, Panasas supplies scale-out PanFS software with DirectFlow, NFS...
Storage Ticker – May 3, 2024
Dremio is partnering with STACKIT, a data-sovereign cloud provider in Europe to provide European organizations with the first fully managed, cloud-based lakehouse offering capable of meeting today's data residency...
HPE launches cost-effective storage system for HPC and AI
HPE has built a downsized ClusterStor supercomputer storage array for entry-level and mid-range HPC and AI compute clusters.
Update. C500 does support Nvidia's GPU Direct protocol. 7 May 2024.
The ClusterStor...
Storage news ticker – May 1
SaaS backup startup Alcion founder and CEO Niraj Tolia tweets: "Let me be blunt. On-prem backup is an evolutionary dead end, especially for SaaS services like Microsoft 365."
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Storage news ticker – 25 April 2024
Data connector company CData Software has appointed of Adam DeMichele as its CRO, Marie Forshaw as SVP of Product Marketing and Arielle Daigle as VP of Growth &...
IBM takes on Dell, HPE, Pure in FlashSystem fight
The latest IBM FlashSystem 5300 array has a PCIe 4 bus, computational drives, and Ice Lake CPUs, accompanied by a Storage Assure scheme to upgrade hardware and software during...