Synology appoints US subsidiary CEO to drive enterprise expansion
Synology vet James Chen has been appointed CEO for Synology America to spearhead its enterprise storage market business growth with data protection appliances taking the lead role.
Taiwan-based Synology, founded...
Weaviate launches vector embeddings generation service
Vector database supplier Weaviate says its Weaviate Embeddings enable data items to be converted into vectors and stored for use by GenAI apps. It launches with Snowflake’s Arctic-Embed open...
AWS introduces Data Transfer Terminals for high-speed cloud uploads
AWS has announced Data Transfer Terminal locations to move data from customer-provided storage devices to the AWS cloud.
The Data Transfer Terminal (DTT) scheme was announced at its re:Invent event....
Pinecone integrates AI inferencing with vector database
GenAI inferencing can now be run directly from the Pinecone vector database to improve retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Pinecone supplies a vector embedding database to be used by AI language models...
NetApp supplies block volumes to AWS Outposts
NetApp ONTAP arrays can now be plugged into an AWS Outpost system to provide external block storage in datacenters and edge locations.
An AWS Outpost is a fully managed Amazon...
Nutanix getting GPUDirect ducks lined up
A Nutanix technical white paper confirms Nutanix will support AI foundation model training with distributed data set access and fast file data delivery to NVIDIA GPU servers.
Foundation models, also...
Amazon Web Services pledges cheaper and 12x faster AI speeds with Lustre storage
Scalable file storage service Amazon FSx for Lustre is promising GPU throughputs 12 times faster, to aid AI learning workloads and “reduce costs”.
To achieve this, says Amazon Web Services,...
Nutanix beats forecast with 16% revenue growth for Q1 FY25
Nutanix revenues grew 16 percent year-on-year to $591 million as it comfortably beat its $575 million high point outlook.
It made a GAAP profit of $29.9 million in its first...
Storage News Ticker – 26 November
45Drives has announced the Stornado F16, its most powerful storage server to date. It has a 2RU chassis with:
AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs, expandable to 4TB of memory,...
Quantum DXi9200 hybrid backup appliance replaces previous models
Quantum has launched a high-end DXi9200 target backup appliance as its sole hybrid (flash+disk) hardware accompanying the two all-flash T-series and two V5000 virtual appliances.
As a consequence, its DXi...
N-able acquires Adlumin for $266M
MSP backup service supplier N-able has acquired Adlumin after OEMing the company's malware detection offering for many months.
N-able provides data protection and other services to more than 25,000 managed...
Rubrik rolls out improved data protection for Azure Blob Storage
Rubrik has released a new cyber resilience solution for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, bringing enhanced security posture and recovery to Blob customers.
Blob Storage provides object storage for cloud-native workloads,...