Storage news roundup – 9 August 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze pulled in $31.3 million revenues during calendar Q2, up 27 percent YoY, and it reported a $10.3 million loss versus the $14.3 million net loss...
SK hynix computational object storage accelerates analytics
SK hynix has worked on developing a computational object storage system (OCS) with Los Alamos Nuclear Labs (LANL) and is showing it at FMS 2024.
It involves having object data...
Pliops and Kalray merger is off
The merger talks between DPU accelerator card builder Pliops and massively parallel DPU supplier Kalray have ended.
Israel-based Pliops is adding an AI feature set to its XDP (Extreme Data...
IBM Storage Scale using Blue Vela AI supercomputer
IBM's Vela AI supercomputer, described here, was not powerful enough for IBM Research’s AI training needs. In 2023, it began the Blue Vela development to supply the major expansion...
Storage news ticker – August 2
Data protector Acronis has shared research from the first half of 2024 in its biannual cyberthreats report, “Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2024” The report found that email attacks have...
IBM uses Storage Scale in its AI model training
Big Blue developed its own Vela cluster, using Storage Scale, to train its AI models.
IBM’s next generation AI studio, watsonx.ai, which became generally available in July of 2023, was...
China’s DapuStor using Pliops to accelerate NoSQL storage engine
DapuStor storage systems will run NoSQL databases faster through a Pliops data processing unit partnership, we're told.
Israel-based Pliops has developed its XDP (Extreme Data Processor) AccelKV, with key:value store...
Next-gen data storage market to be worth $90 billion by 2029
The next-generation global data storage market is projected to grow from $65.1 billion in 2024 to $90 billion by 2029, according to analyst house MarketsandMarkets.
The growth is attributed to...
Australia launches Virga cluster with Dell AI rackservers for health research
Dell XE9640 AI rackservers are being used in Australia’s Virga cluster, with a BeeGFS flash backing store, to improve cystic fibrosis diagnosis and treatment among other research areas.
Australia’s Commonwealth...
StorONE improves auto-tiering and data protection features with latest update
StorONE has refreshed its software to accelerate auto-tiering, strengthen snapshot-based data protection, and recover faster after a malware attack.
The company provides clusterable storage nodes through its S1 software, now...
MaxLinear upgrades storage accelerator with PCIe generation and lane count bumps
MaxLinear has launched the MxL8900 storage accelerator as an upgrade to its MxL8800 series, lowering latency and adding upcoming support for PCIe 5.
MaxLinear's Panther III accelerator cards are similar...
IBM unveils uStore for faster remote data access using NVMe-oF in Storage Scale
IBM is planning a "uStore" for Storage Scale to get data from remote drives faster using NVMe over Fabrics.
Update: Added that Frank Kraemer's quote comes from a LinkedIn post,...