Pure gets Meta (Facebook) blessing
Meta (Facebook as was) has announced its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) which it claims is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the...
ESG says Commvault + ExaGrid gets up to 15:1 dedupe ratio
Analysis house ESG says users can get a fifteenfold reduction in backup size by using an ExaGrid array as a backup target for Commvault.
Commvault's backup software delivers a 5:1...
MRM
MRM - Managed-Retention Memory (MRM). A January 2025 Microsoft research paper said that MRM is different from volatile DRAM as it can retain data without power and does not...
Billion-dollar startup Solidigm is working on enterprise penta-level cell SSDs
Solidigm is not an SSD design and manufacturing weakling cast off by parent Intel because it was failing. It went because Intel needed the capital invested in it to...
Cloudian provides object back end to WEKA’s file-munching front end
Cloudian and WEKA have partnered to add exabyte-scalable backend HyperStore object storage to WEKA's scale-out, parallel Data Platform for AI filesystem software.
The two say their combined products, integrated through...
Two new Optane drives surface in New Hampshire
Intel has two new Optane 3D XPoint drives coming, if tests at a New Hampshire Interoperability Lab are anything to go by.
As reported in Tom’s Hardware, the SSD DC...
Kioxia announces detail-free speedy QLC phone flash card
Flash fabber Kioxia is sampling a thinner and denser phone flash drive, saying it has faster read and write speeds — but with no details about that, its 3D...
WAF
WAF - Write Amplification Factor - indicates the extra NAND media write operations the SSD performs in response to the host writes (WAF = total NAND media writes /...
QSFP
QSFP – Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable standard referring to transceivers for optical fiber or copper cabling, and providing speeds four times their corresponding SFP (Small Form-factor Pluggable) standard. The QSFP28...
Storage news ticker – January 14
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A Backblaze blog claims public cloud service provider data retention minimum periods are like a data deletion tax. “Let’s call retention minimums what they really are: delete penalties. We...
Fewer disk units shipped in Q4 ’21 as nearline rises
There were fewer disk drives shipped in 2021’s last quarter than a year ago, but the nearline segment saw a 38 per cent unit ship rise.
Approximately 64 million drives...
Storage News ticker – January 11
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Cobalt Iron, which provides SaaS-based enterprise data protection, has received US Patent 11206306 on its technology for analytics-based cloud brokering of data protection operations. The patented techniques use unique operational...