Supermicro says Fibre Channel is on the way out, but SAS lives on and...
Interview: We had the opportunity to discuss storage servers with Supermicro and find out how it designs and customizes them for its customers, and how interfaces are changing. Wendell...
MinIO hires business and marketing execs amid object AI rush
Open source object code developer MinIO has appointed its first chief business and marketing officers as AI training and inferencing take hold of enterprise customers.
MinIO didn’t need the classic...
Storage news ticker – March 4
Cloudian will present two technical sessions and demos of its AI-optimized storage at Nvidia GTC 2025, Booth 219, in the San Jose Convention Center, March 17-21. Michael Tso, CEO...
Storage challengers threaten incumbents as acquisition pressure mounts
Comment Massive scale-out, file, and object storage winds are blowing through the incumbent storage supplier halls and threaten to become a cat 4 hurricane that will upend them. Yet...
Storage news ticker – February 28
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze announced results for Q4 2024 and the full year. Q4 revenues were $33.8 million, up 18 percent, with a GAAP loss of $14.4...
Private equity pair make Egnyte majority buy
Cloud content collaborator Egnyte is now majority-owned by a pair of private equity companies.
GI Partners (GI) and TA Associates (TA) have bought a majority investment to “infuse Egnyte with the...
DDN on files, objects and AI training and inference
Interview DDN has been supplying high speed file access with its EXAScaler Lustre parallel file system software for many years. This supports Nvidia’s GPUDirect protocol. It has just announced...
StorONE advances auto-tiering with AI-driven TierONE
StorONE is offering updated storage tiering with AI-powered TierONE software and improved data protection with SnapONE.
The company claims customers don’t need all-flash array (AFA) systems to get fast performance,...
DDN unveils Infinia 2.0 object storage for faster AI data pipelines
DDN has announced the Infinia 2.0 object store for AI training and inference, making big claims for up to 100x improvement in AI data acceleration and 10x gain in...
VAST Data expands into block storage and event broking
VAST Data has added block access to its existing file and object protocol support along with Kafka event broking to provide real-time data streaming to AI, ML, and analytic...
How constant frustration drives storage developments
Comment Storage is always in flux, from underlying media to new ways to access on-drive storage and specialized large language model databases. Workloads need more data. They need it...
Storage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Aerospike says v...