Micron launches world’s fastest 60 TB PCIe 5 SSD
Micron's 6550 ION SSD matches the 61.44 TB capacity of Samsung, Solidigm, and WD's competing drives, but promises higher performance as it uses the PCIe gen 5 bus instead...
Storage news ticker – November 8
An Apache Cassandra community survey found that:
Cassandra is moving to the cloud
50 percent will move to cloud – this is split evenly across different cloud deployment options
24 percent will...
Nutanix tightens ties with AWS on hybrid cloud solutions
Nutanix is getting closer to AWS, with on-prem/public cloud hybridity front and center, to both ease app migration to AWS and use AWS for on-prem extension.
It's doing this through...
NAKIVO adds Microsoft 365, Proxmox, and Spanish language support
NAKIVO has boosted its backup offering with additional VM support, Microsoft 365 protection, Spanish language adoption, and extended cybersecurity.
Sparks, Nevada-based NAKIVO was founded in 2011, five years after industry...
Veeam partners with Continuity Software to fend off ransomware attacks
Backup vendor Veeam is increasing its data security capabilities via an anti-ransomware partnership with Continuity Software to boost customer cyber-resiliency.
Continuity Software’s StorageGuard solution analyzes the security configuration of storage...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cohesity has hired Vasu Murthy as SVP and chief product officer. He comes from Rubrik, where he was VP of products – responsible for the core product, platform, and...
Paradigm4’s flexFS puts fast file front end on cloud object storage
Object storage is ill-suited to supporting AI, ML, and HPC workloads because it can't pump data fast enough to the many processors involved. File systems can do that but...
Wharton Business School study claims enterprises buying into Gen AI
Organizations are increasingly adopting Gen AI in business functions, according to research – with its use in operations, purchasing and procurement doubling since 2023.
This is shown by the “Growing...
Methylated DNA storage goes parallel
A new DNA-based storage approach, faster than coding data in DNA's four nucleic bases, works by setting DNA sections on or off, with the presence or absence of methyl...
Seagate revenues soar on strong high-capacity drive demand
Seagate’s disk drive slump is over with a revenue rise due to US cloud providers buying more mass-capacity drives, and more to come from enterprises.
Revenues jumped 49 percent...
YanRong leads MLPerf AI benchmarks on GPUs supported per compute node
Chinese supplier YanRong Technology says it has the leading performance in the MLPerf Storage v1.0 benchmark, ranking first in the CosmoFlow, ResNet50 and UNet3D workloads.
The firm sells its all-flash...
Irish researchers score €4M grant to work on DNA storage
An Irish university research team has been awarded €4 million ($4.34 million) to research DNA storage and computation.
The team, led by professor Damien Woods at Maynooth University’s Hamilton Institute...