Sandisk investor day outlines roadmap post WD spin-off
Western Digital’s about to be spun-off Sandisk business unit held an investor day session and revealed details of three new SSDS coming later this year along with plans for...
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage news ticker – August 22
Open source ETL provider Airbyte says its PyAirbyte Python library, introduced in late February, has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers sync over 6 billion records of...
Ferroelectric RAM looking rusty and stuck
Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) is a fast, non-volatile memory that's stuck in the same trap as Optane – and currently going nowhere.
There have been – and are – several fast,...
Storage Ticker – 25 July 2024
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has appointed its first CRO, Jason Wakeam, whose past experience includes serving as the VP of global sales and OEM at SnapLogic. He’s also worked...
GridGain in-memory data and generative AI
Interview: GridGain software provides a way for clustered servers to share memory and therefore run apps needing more memory than that supported by a single server.
Lalit Ahuja, GridGain CTO,...
Everspin’s MRAM revenues spin down a tad
MRAM supplier Everspin saw its first FY2024 quarter make a loss after 11 consecutive profitable quarters.
Everspin's Magneto-resistive RAM (STT-MRAM) is non-volatile memory with DRAM-level speed, and comes in two...
VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers
All-flash storage array supplier VAST Data has ported its storage controller software into Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPUs to get its stored data into the heart of Nvidia GPU servers, transforming...
Storage news ticker – January 17
Data intelligence biz Alation has gained accreditation from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore enabling it to sell more effectively to government and large enterprise buyers there.
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VAST Data claims vast cost-saving over Elastic File Service in Amazon’s cloud
VAST Data has released v5.0 of its VAST Data platform software and claims customers can save up to 80 percent of the cost of Amazon's EFS by using VAST's...