PowerStore stores more, has better file ops and resiliency power

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Dell has updated its PowerStore array, adding more capacity and resiliency while making file operations slicker  PowerStore is Dell’s dual-controller,…
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Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage

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Wasabi has closed a second late-stage funding event to strengthen its AI data cloud storage infrastructure. It provides cloud storage…

VAST Data’s Flash Reclaim attacks competitors' installed bases

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VAST Data thinks the SSD and HDD supply shortage problem is so severe that it has a Flash Reclaim initiative…

ExaGrid logs record Q4 as customer and booking growth continue

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Backup target appliance supplier ExaGrid had a record fourth 2025 quarter with its highest-ever overall revenue and bookings, record revenue…

Storage news ticker - 12 January

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Commvault will be a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe. It ill…

Nvidia's basic context memory extension infrastructure

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In an effort to get to know the basic Nvidia KV cache extension infrastructure, the ICMSP (Inference Context Memory Storage…

Backup that flexes to counter rising ransomware risks

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Over-provisioning? Not with a consumption model, says Object First Ransomware continues to top the list of most feared cyberthreats, and…

Storage News Ticker - 9 January

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AIC expanded its Nvidia BlueField accelerated storage portfolio with the F2032-G6 2U JBOF, optimized for accelerating AI inference by storing…

Eon turns cloud backups into SQL-searchable Parquet data lakes

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Interview. Israeli startup Eon pulled in $127 million in funding in October 2024 for its cloud backup posture management (CBPM)…

Coldago offers fresh trio of file storage maps

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French storage research house Coldago has released a 2025 file storage map report and, as  it did a year ago,…

Sky-high flash prices: data reduction or tier to disk?

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As SSD prices rise we wonder whether we’re seeing a panic-buying storage media price rise bubble or is AI-driven demand…

Rubrik’s booming base offering and two side bets

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Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha and CFO Kiran Choudary, recently sat down with William Blair financial analysts and discussed its business…

Sandisk and high-bandwidth flash efforts

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Analysis: Sandisk has published a blog about an interview with high bandwidth memory (HBM) pioneer Professor Joung-ho Kim from KAIST’s…

Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW

Chris Mellor -
Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe…

WD Black and Blue replaced by Sandisk Optimus branding

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Sandisk, which became independent from disk drive maker Western Digital last February is replacing its inherited WD branded SSDs with…

Phison extends aiDAPTIV+ to boost AI inference on PCs

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Phison is extending its aiDAPTIV+ SSD technology to target AI key-value cache workloads, aiming to expand effective GPU memory and…

Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs

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The Micron 3610 NVMe SSD is the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 QLC client SSD, powered by Micron G9 NAND and…

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