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December 2022

  1. Two open source data lakehouse platforms will emerge, says db insight
  2. DataOS company TMDC moves into view, but some details are missing
  3. ‘It’s ugly’: Micron DRAM and NAND revenues down, layoffs coming
  4. Coldago supplier rankings for cloud, enterprise and high-performance file storage
  5. Ahana: Lakehouses need community-governed SQL
  6. StorONE reshuffles executive team
  7. Having an efficiency standard like SNIA’s is good. But what about public cloud?
  8. Aston Uni developing 5nm surface channel storage technology
  9. NVMe-oC
  10. MS-SSD
  11. And just like SPAC, MariaDB has gone public
  12. Trilio hires new CEO amid $17m funding round
  13. TrendForce: YMTC NAND could exit the market
  14. Tiger Technology enters digital pathology cloud file services market
  15. Storage titans face Turkish competitor inspired by VAST Data’s architecture
  16. Bringing the best of all technology worlds to next-gen laptops
  17. Storage news ticker – December 15
  18. VMware’s Cloud Flex Storage in AWS squares up to FSx for ONTAP
  19. SingleStore claims 100x speed boost for JSON queries
  20. Ondat beats Pure’s Portworx in container storage tests
  21. US to slap trade restrictions on China’s YMTC
  22. Backblaze pours cold water on immersion cooling for most disk drive setups
  23. Komprise speeds SMB data migration to cloud
  24. Why hybrid data storage needs a single managed console
  25. Catalogic protects Azure and GCP VMs against ransomware
  26. CTERA adopts more multi-cloud ideas
  27. Fungible sold to Microsoft for $190 million, say multiple sources
  28. Back up a minute: Backblaze on SMR, storage tiers, and Web3
  29. Azure Storage Mover competes with partners
  30. Backblaze predicts HDD prices will fall to 1¢/GB by mid-2025
  31. Catalog demos massively parallel DNA storage search
  32. Storage news ticker – 9 December
  33. Spanish startup Nuclia reveals language search models
  34. Resilience? We’ve heard of it. Forrester data durability study shows Big 3 are ahead
  35. Pure talks up all-flash in sustainability report as datacenter world awaits regulation
  36. SK hynix boosts DDR5 DRAM speed with parallel reads
  37. UUID
  38. Qumulo extends scaleout clusters , hardware support
  39. Atempo foresees structured data explosion
  40. Cleondris: Unofficial Swiss NetApp skunkworks talks backup and ONTAP
  41. Xinnor CEO on its high-speed RAID software and disks, DPUs, ZFS, ZNS, SMR and HPC
  42. Micron launches go-faster 232-layer NVMe client SSD
  43. Arcitecta promises data recovery for billions of files in seconds or less
  44. Web3 storage is not ready for enterprise backup
  45. Forrester’s translytical neologism and rankings – with Oracle on top
  46. AWS using Model9 as mainframe data pump to load S3 for replatformed mainframe apps
  47. Liquid disk drive cooling: much ado about nothing
  48. Cirrus Data and the next frontier: Moving SAN blocks to the cloud
  49. Storage news ticker – 2 December
  50. HPE Alletra: A storage appliance for all seasons
  51. Cohesity AWS integration picking up pace
  52. Nutanix sales lift as HPE reportedly mulls acquisition
  53. Pure continues growth with strong quarter

November 2022

  1. HPE sees no recession as revenues rise
  2. NetApp cuts costs as economic clouds gather
  3. Quantum developing AI-based media tagging
  4. Coldago finds no leaders among unstructured data suppliers
  5. Storage news ticker – November 29
  6. Web3 storage needs to ditch cryptocurrency
  7. Dremio pushes further into data warehouse land
  8. VAST Data fifth fastest growing US tech company
  9. In-memory DB vendor Redis inks multi-year collab deal with AWS
  10. As computational storage gets more buzz, ScaleFlux talks up latest CSDs
  11. Flit
  12. Storage news ticker – November 24
  13. Panzura signs data management deal with AWS
  14. Analyst reports major NAND market contraction
  15. OVH, IBM promoting Cold Archive in France
  16. QR Code
  17. Commvault looking to grow software and SaaS
  18. PC sales dive hits Dell’s quarterly revenues
  19. MinIO boss: Times are going to get very tough for appliance vendors
  20. Data lake protection, resilience, tiering, and DR
  21. Dell puts PowerFlex into AWS
  22. SFTP
  23. Xinnor is old RAID wine in a fresh new bottle
  24. Storage news ticker – November 18
  25. Astera Labs spears CXL chip funding
  26. Competition gets heated on Fungible’s DPU patch
  27. Scality adds dynamic data tiering to RING
  28. Dell refreshes data protection portfolio
  29. Decentralized storage provider Züs evolves from 0Chain with big claims about speed – and not much else
  30. Micron abruptly cuts DRAM, NAND production
  31. Storage news ticker – November 16
  32. Seagate doubles 18TB disk’s data transfer speed
  33. EIDF: Where tape storage meets artificial intelligence
  34. Escape the cloud egress trap with Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager
  35. Cohesity strengthens anti-ransomware strategy
  36. WEKA inhales more cash to fuel ‘hypergrowth’
  37. CopprLink
  38. ExaGrid shrinks backups with Veeam, Veritas
  39. VAST Data gets props from Nvidia for offloading energy-burning servers
  40. Data processor Kalray steps onto world stage
  41. Storage news ticker – November 14
  42. Seagate looks to sell property to cut costs
  43. Storage News ticker – 11 November
  44. Flex Files
  45. BackBlaze posts losses, but sales are up
  46. Panasas ups Atempo with Miria, a data-mover suite for HPC and AI
  47. Hammerspace picks up speed in three-legged race
  48. Yes, Virginia, it is possible to have too much money
  49. Virtual datacenter crew VergeIO appoints Mike Wall as board chairperson
  50. Acronis aims ML-boosted management software at MSP backup and security clients
  51. Storj gives the lowdown on Web3 decentralized storage
  52. Veeam and Datto rival N-able talks up Cove backup
  53. Storage news roundup
  54. Startup UnifabriX exits stealth mode with CXL 3.0 Smart Memory device demo
  55. Samsung to mass-produce 1 terabit flash chip
  56. VAAI
  57. vVols
  58. Google’s Cloud Hyperdisk to bring SAN features to GCP
  59. Solidigm roadmap promises 61TB SSD
  60. Storage news roundup – November 3
  61. Alation bags $123m in E-round investor funding
  62. Cohesity: Don’t rely on ransomware guarantees
  63. Solidigm CEO’s departure takes staff by surprise
  64. Kioxia brings SSDs to AI and Arm environments
  65. Supermicro partnering with GRAID and Qumulo
  66. VAST Data to ‘revolutionize’ data lake market
  67. How simple, stateful storage and Kubernetes streamlines developer productivity
  68. Backblaze: Buying less reliable disk drives can make financial sense
  69. Commvault delivers 10 quarters of growth
  70. NetApp introduces Blue XP data management

October 2022

  1. Data Dynamics and the era of irreplaceability
  2. Post-quantum Cryptography
  3. Web3 bros form Decentralized Storage Alliance
  4. Disk drive shipments fall in revenue and capacity
  5. IOR
  6. BAM
  7. Storage news ticker – October 31
  8. Seagate Lyve Cloud embraces Hammerspace
  9. Veeam launches Backup for Salesforce
  10. Western Digital profits plummet and revenues fall – but less than Seagate
  11. Pure Storage pumps up Portworx
  12. Storage news ticker – October 27
  13. Seagate to chop 3,000 jobs after revenues plunge
  14. Nutanix extends Kubernetes in HCI hypervisor
  15. Kioxia opens new fab as IPO plan shelved
  16. Flux decentralized compute service adds storage
  17. Eradicate data – don’t destroy unwanted drives
  18. Dell bulks out zero trust services portfolio to help protect Microsoft users
  19. Veritas exec gives lowdown on Alta cloud data management platform
  20. BaM
  21. Veritas unveils Alta cloud data protection
  22. Panzura positions and pans its competition
  23. Storage news ticker – October 24
  24. Cohesity, VAST arrive in Gartner’s object MQ
  25. S3 over RDMA
  26. Samsung wins on PCIe 4 SSD performance
  27. IBM builds Diamondback tape library for enterprise and cloud hyperscalers
  28. HPE looks to disaster recovery for storage growth
  29. IBM upgrades guidance after revenue uptick
  30. Frozen in time: Gartner Magic quadrant for primary storage
  31. Pliops unveils XDP-Rocks for RocksDB
  32. VAST Data chases zero trust, zero waste dragon
  33. SK hynix prototypes computational CXL memory
  34. Kioxia teases gumstick SSD with OCP compliance
  35. Solidigm pushes out gaming gumstick SSD
  36. Toshiba’s 20TB nearline spinner finally arrives at the party… later than rivals
  37. HYCU gets onramp to Okta’s 15,000-plus customers
  38. Storage news ticker – October 17
  39. US export controls may cripple YMTC fabs
  40. UDIMM
  41. Azure touts elasticated SAN service
  42. Broadcom refreshes connectivity portfolio
  43. Nutanix rumored to be for sale
  44. Smart IOPS packet-switching controller supercharges SSDs
  45. Infinidat ups capacity and cyber resiliency
  46. GRAID’s killer RAID competitive comparison
  47. Filecoin: The Airbnb of archival storage
  48. ExaGrid says it exceeds 3,600 customers in latest quarterly trading update
  49. Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died
  50. Disk drive market to plunge due to inflation, war and hyperscalers’ already high inventories
  51. Something’s missing from global file systems
  52. Storage news ticker – October 10
  53. NIS2
  54. DORA
  55. Nemo
  56. LDPC
  57. NIM
  58. Higher capacity disk drives leads to lower unit volumes shipped
  59. Storage and the Supercloud
  60. AWS sets up Lustre-based caching filesystem
  61. Dell has Liqid route to CXL memory pooling
  62. LRU
  63. Hammerspace extends Global Data Environment
  64. Storage news ticker – October 6
  65. Micron set for $100b DRAM fab in New York
  66. Storage news ticker – October 5
  67. Komprise tells users: Go do it yourself
  68. Dell adopts Zero Trust security principles
  69. IBM swallows Red Hat storage products
  70. Seagate DNA lab chip technology explored
  71. Gartner: Flash array revenue to overtake HDD
  72. COSI
  73. DASD
  74. UEC

September 2022

  1. Dremio data lakes can run on VAST Data storage
  2. Micron revenues drop, with worse to come
  3. Unravel Data raises $50m for data pipeline tech
  4. Fungible shifts focus to SAN performance, power
  5. HBM3E
  6. Storage news ticker – September 28
  7. VAST Data heading to the public cloud
  8. Fantom SSD makes faster use of Micron NAND than Micron
  9. Quantum enters reseller deal for Atempo backup
  10. Wasabi raises $250m to grow cloud storage biz
  11. e.MMC
  12. Storage upstart Storadera talks about its single sheet price list
  13. Nodeum scaling up for exabyte environments
  14. Storage news ticker – September 26
  15. OSI (Open Semantic Interchange)
  16. NVRAM
  17. Private equity as careful steward: Is it possible?
  18. GQL
  19. Spectra Logic partners with iRODS Consortium
  20. MinIO surpasses 1 billion downloads
  21. Data Mesh
  22. Lakehouse
  23. Data Lake
  24. Data Warehouse
  25. Dell talks up the green datacenter
  26. Pure Storage defends sustainability credentials
  27. Commvault adds malware honeypots to Metallic
  28. Storage news ticker – September 21
  29. IntelliProp has chips to build CXL fabric
  30. Nvidia unveils DGX BasePOD and partners
  31. CSAL
  32. Cirrus Data: Migration for blockheads
  33. Imply accelerates massive real-time analytics
  34. IBM extends backup products to SAP, Salesforce
  35. Toshiba’s second buyout bidding round underway
  36. Seagate DNA storage involvement predates Catalog deal
  37. Evaluating global file systems and NAS cloud filers
  38. PoINT object archive combines disk and tape
  39. Breaking down the storage supplier revenue tiers
  40. Storage news ticker – September 16
  41. Data diode
  42. iXsystems gets decentralized cloud storage
  43. RackTop tops ransomware protection rankings
  44. Weka revenues suggest ongoing hypergrowth
  45. Infinidat gets kudos for block array ransomware protection
  46. SaaS startup Revyz aims to protect Jira Cloud
  47. Biomemory describes DNA storage tech it hopes will replace tape
  48. VAST sustainability paper fires shots at Dell, Pure
  49. Asigra rolls out ransomware detection software
  50. Dell introduces customer-managed APEX storage
  51. Seagate Exos arrays get punchier RAID controller
  52. Nakivo adds Backblaze and Blob support
  53. Storage news ticker – September 12
  54. Google launches storage services with knobs on
  55. SerDes
  56. Spinning rust? No, now Seagate’s working with DNA
  57. HPE expands Alletra storage portfolio with hybrid arrays
  58. LTO tape to keep rolling for 5 more generations
  59. Pensando gets DPU flying with vSphere 8
  60. CD
  61. WORM
  62. UCIe
  63. Hitachi Vantara says SQream if you want your data to go faster
  64. Storage news ticker – September 6
  65. DoE stuffs $24m into data management R&D
  66. Easy infrastructure management across the edge and the cloud
  67. Storage news ticker – September 5
  68. Gartner hands mic to customers on HCI
  69. Liqid staff leave the business amid restructure
  70. Nutanix reports double digit revenue gains for fiscal 2022 amid buyers interest from Bain Capital
  71. Pure Storage revenue growth races past rivals in Q2, reports rare profits
  72. Seagate sales depressed by weakening demand

August 2022

  1. Hammerspace concept ready for market testing
  2. VMware adds single NVMe flash tier to vSAN
  3. HPE records flat revenues for third 2022 quarter
  4. Folio Photonics archive optical disk technology is real
  5. Astera Labs now sampling Leo CXL controllers
  6. SDXI
  7. Dell boosts VxRail with DPUs running vSphere
  8. NetApp, VMware join forces in Amazon’s cloud
  9. Storage news ticker – August 30
  10. Let’s examine VAST Data’s claims of superior backup restoration
  11. Tintri decouples VMstore software from hardware and embraces public cloud
  12. DPU startup Fungible lays off staff – sources
  13. NetApp, VMware build on NVMe-oF, multi-cloud support, and more
  14. E2
  15. Object First shares details on backup storage play
  16. Storage a bright spot in Dell second quarter
  17. Silo
  18. LLM
  19. Hammerspace’s full coverage in its market positioning radar diagram
  20. Does mission critical data mean taking things slow? Nah, let’s take it to the Max
  21. NetApp sees ‘early signs of relief in supply availability’
  22. Hammerspace fixes broken data access layering
  23. Zilliz raises $60m for cloud vector database
  24. XenData kit takes tape copies of cloud archives
  25. Storage news ticker – August 23
  26. StorPool adds NVMe/TCP and NFS and ports to AWS
  27. Burlywood launches FlashOS firmware for SSDs
  28. Storage news ticker – August 22
  29. FADU goes for SSD controller gold
  30. SingleStore integrates with SAS Viya
  31. CRUD
  32. Mainframers are keeping tape as they add cloud backup, archive storage
  33. OpenDrives now a backup target through Zmanda deal
  34. Cloudera SaaSifies CDP with data lakehouse service
  35. HYCU offers protection freebie on AWS EC2
  36. SD Express
  37. Barracuda sold to another private equity business
  38. Graph Database
  39. ANNS
  40. SLM
  41. Samsung said to be working on >200-layer NAND
  42. Bocada says automated BackupOps is coming
  43. Key:value SSD controller Pliops gains $100 million funding
  44. Dell’s PowerStore OS is even more agile as it hits the big 3.0
  45. Storage news ticker – August 17
  46. TidalScale and inverted server virtualization
  47. Storage suppliers make the top 5000 US fastest-growing companies list
  48. VergeIO adds GPUs to virtual datacenter systems
  49. Cloudian balances object storage access loads
  50. Talking about an AI revolution? Don’t forget the storage
  51. GRAID’s 3-4 year advantage arguably makes it acquisition bait
  52. Acquisitive backup crew N-able buys Spinpanel
  53. YMTC could ‘structurally change the NAND industry’, claims analyst
  54. ULTRARAM
  55. Write Amplification
  56. Dependable Backblaze’s revenues burn brighter
  57. Reasons for Western Digital partnering Micron in the push for US state financial handouts
  58. Macronix intros compute-in-NAND storage
  59. Gartner releases 2022 storage hype cycle
  60. Who should get to define your software defined storage setup?
  61. GFS
  62. Neo Semiconductor doubles X-NAND die speed
  63. NeuroBlade and the analytics supply chain
  64. LPDDR
  65. Infinidat alumni sue over stock dilution
  66. Infinidat guarantees one-minute data recovery
  67. Software defined storage IS the future. Get the definitive take right here
  68. Nutanix to layoff 270 employees
  69. Interview: Micron likes 3D DRAM and 3D NAND – and loves CXL
  70. ScaleFlux shows off third generation computational storage
  71. Tape (and DNA?) needed to meet archive demand by 2030
  72. Cohesity: The Poonen and Aron double act – part 2
  73. New protocols and standards push storage appliances upwards and outwards
  74. Cohesity: The Poonen and Aron double act – part 1
  75. Micron, Western Digital: US should fund memory research
  76. Flash Memory Summit thematic extraction
  77. YMTC’s empty Xtacking 3 announcement
  78. Samsung lays a clutch of tasty flash eggs at FMS 2022
  79. RLHF
  80. Kioxia updates XL-FLASH storage-class memory with MLC tier
  81. Western Digital disk drive revenues spin down in latest quarter, warns outlook is worse
  82. Netlist scores a win in Samsung DIMM patent case – with Google in its sights
  83. MAID and WORM PLC flash archive
  84. Gartner Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant says hello to newbie
  85. Compute this: NGD computational storage startup loses all three founders in one go
  86. MinIO slams Nutanix use of open source code: round 2
  87. Druva offers $10 million SaaS data protection service warranty
  88. SK hynix’s 238-layer flash gets nominal 6 layer advantage over Micron and YMTC
  89. Cohesity founder and CEO Mohit Aron steps down – Sanjay Poonen takes over
  90. Solidigm client SSD fresh out of the box for longer
  91. SK hynix announces CXL 2 memory cards and SDK
  92. Phison and Seagate unveil super high performance stats for their PCIe 4 SSD
  93. OpenCAPI to be absorbed by CXL
  94. Eight months in, Nutanix top sales honcho hops it
  95. Goodbye FTL – Kioxia reconstructing flash drives with software-enabled flash
  96. CAMM

July 2022

  1. Seagate signs orbital satellite storage drive collaboration
  2. Los Alamos Labs, SK hynix develop computational storage SSD
  3. HCI
  4. Storage news ticker – July 29
  5. Crossing the streams: ONTAP to inhale Kafka data
  6. Intel at 3D exit point: Alas poor Optane, I knew it well
  7. Dearly beloved: NeuroBlade goes to Silicon Valley to preach hyper compute for analytics message
  8. Nutanix apologizes to MinIO for Apache 2 licence infraction
  9. Backup security is hot! Insititutional investors splash more cash on Acronis
  10. Pure gets into mainframe backups with Model9
  11. SK hynix racks up memory and flash revenues, points to tougher times ahead
  12. StorONE drops capacity-based pricing and boosts software efficiency
  13. Kioxia’s PCIe 5 enterprise SSD doubles PCIe 4 drive’s performance
  14. First out of the gate: Micron wins the 200-plus layer NAND production race
  15. Commvault reports another growth quarter
  16. Google Cloud partners with startup Veza
  17. Wafers and layers: Fab advancements at China’s YMTC
  18. Fungible testing computational storage on DPUs
  19. NetApp CloudOps boss jumps ship to Palantir
  20. Pandemic, inflation and supply chain issues hurt Seagate revenues
  21. PowerMore: Dell gives hardware, networking and software boost to PowerStore
  22. Storage news ticker – July 21
  23. 2nd generation Samsung SmartSSD gets smarter
  24. Pure grows storage market share, but Huawei grew more
  25. OwnBackup gets serviced now
  26. SingleStore’s hard-driving and single-minded CEO
  27. After swimming up the Amazon, Cloudian’s object storage now stacks up with Azure
  28. Druva strengthens ransomware protection
  29. Redis is ready for CXL memory pooling
  30. Dell releases PowerMaxOS 10 array software
  31. MinIO accuses Nutanix of violating open-source license
  32. Western Digital first to ship 22TB drives
  33. IBM storage revenues up thanks to mainframe refresh
  34. Evaluating the Evaluator Group
  35. Ondat cuts headcount amid market pressures
  36. Storage news ticker – July 14
  37. Athinia sets up secure Micron collaboration net
  38. DeltaStream pockets funding for stream data processing concept
  39. Nvidia thoughts on composability – tail latency limits CXL
  40. NetApp adds Porsche race team to client list
  41. SingleStore raises $116m, preps for potential IPO
  42. ExaGrid’s regular as clockwork growth machine
  43. Non-legacy architecture Rubrik hoping for big win exit
  44. HCI player Scale Computing bags $55m funding
  45. Catalogic upgrades ransomware, hypervisor protection
  46. TRIE
  47. Tape is low cost and a low carbon storage winner
  48. Zettabyte era brings archiving front and center
  49. WANdisco contract wins drive growth sky high
  50. Data protection: a mature market with fabulous growth prospects for Veeam
  51. Dell’s PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and CyberSense heading into the cloud
  52. Nearline disk drive shipments stall in calendar Q2
  53. Storage news ticker – July 7
  54. StorCentric has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is looking for a sale
  55. CXL memory pools: Just how big can they be?
  56. Storage news ticker – July 6
  57. Huawei: Comparing OceanProtect to backup rivals
  58. Databricks updates Lakehouse Platform
  59. HPE: Getting ahead with corporate TV
  60. Data fragmentation needs a data intelligence fix
  61. The emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion
  62. Qumulo CEO speaks out on layoffs, growth and more: ‘Supply chain challenges are real’
  63. FDP
  64. SiPH
  65. Storage news ticker – July 1
  66. GigaOm on best hybrid cloud data protectors
  67. Micron forecasts downturn after record quarter
  68. Ocient discusses hyperscale data analysis problem

June 2022

  1. Dell adds federated management to PowerProtect
  2. Qumulo lays off 80 staff amid lackluster growth
  3. Bε-Tree – B-Epsilon Tree – Beta-Epsilon Tree
  4. Veritas Backup Exec sends data to Backblaze cloud
  5. Commvault adds Metallic features to Oracle Cloud
  6. Storage news ticker – June 29
  7. Micron updates SATA SSDs with 176-layer NAND
  8. HPE GreenLake spreads its storage wings
  9. Lightbits Labs inhales $42 million in funding
  10. VMware offers vSphere and vSAN as a service
  11. Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy
  12. Arcion CTO on building effective data pipelines
  13. Spectra Logic: A niche storage empire
  14. Iceberg
  15. Hudi
  16. Dell builds its own partner-based data lakehouse
  17. NetApp bucks trend for all-flash array revenues
  18. Nutanix Files 4.1 anti-ransomware: Through the Data Lens
  19. iXsystems adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS
  20. ASI
  21. AGI
  22. Odaseva points out API bottlenecks in SaaS backup
  23. Storage news ticker – June 23
  24. DNA data storage wants to standardize
  25. Nutanix ups ransomware shields with Files 4.1
  26. Switchless network supplier Rockport switches CEOs
  27. Panasas has become an MLCommons collaborator to develop a machine learning storage benchmark
  28. SingleStore rolls out speed and security updates
  29. Object and file-storing Scality battling climate change
  30. Retrospect backup platform adds cloud storage
  31. Jupiter supercomputer’s storage innards
  32. Storage news ticker – June 21
  33. Pure well-placed for hyperscale growth
  34. CXL-led big memory taking over from age of SAN
  35. Resilvering
  36. RF-2 and RF-3
  37. HeLC
  38. HLC
  39. If you really want to transform your business, get AI to transform your infrastructure first
  40. Boffins design NAND and persistent memory in single SSD reference architecture
  41. Quantum: LTO tape roadmap falls short
  42. Veritas takes autonomous data management moonshot
  43. WEKA v4.0 filesystem goes multicloud
  44. Storage news ticker – June 15
  45. MinIO plugs its object storage into Snowflake
  46. Storage news ticker – June 13
  47. Veeam founders launch Object First – for Veeam
  48. Nasuni vs NetApp: Low-speed architecture collision
  49. Storage comes together to fight cancer
  50. DiRAC’s Liqid pours GPUs into servers for cosmological research simulation runs
  51. Storage news ticker – 10 June
  52. Backup there – HYCU gets $53 million B-round funding
  53. Intel planning big Lightbits NVMe/TCP storage push
  54. Quantum’s slow growth needs rights issue to shore up balance sheet and pay off debt
  55. Western Digital open to splitting disk and NAND/SSD businesses
  56. Pure Storage reworks Evergreen subscription service
  57. Pure extends FlashBlade with more capacity and faster compute
  58. Pure Storage upgrades AIRI with FlashBlade//S
  59. StorONE adds NVMe-attached disk tier to its array
  60. Toshiba’s 2TB disk is a low-end gaming and archive drive
  61. VAST Data flash cost heading below nearline disk
  62. Storage news ticker – June 7
  63. NetApp crams ransomware, single subscription features and more into hybrid multi-cloud
  64. Storage news ticker – June 6
  65. Clumio cuts anti-ransomware SecureVault expense with lower-cost version
  66. Storage news ticker – June 4
  67. A quick primer on HPE Cray Frontier’s parallel file system storage
  68. The four storage horsemen of the epochalypse
  69. HPE revenues flat-line amid supply-chain woes
  70. NetApp grows revenues 8 percent just as it said it would – but CloudOps held it back
  71. SCSI
  72. UFS
  73. Pure’s blowout first fiscal 2023 quarter
  74. Namespace
  75. Folio Photonics joins Active Archive Alliance
  76. Phison demos PCIe 5 SSD performance
  77. Cisco + NetApp + Pure = CI as a service

May 2022

  1. Storage news ticker – May 31
  2. Venture capitalists issue startup funding warning
  3. UALink
  4. Upcoming Micron SSDs could have chip-level controller functions
  5. Hyperconverger Diamanti discusses Kubernetes lifecycle system
  6. Quantum positions ActiveScale as HPC secondary storage
  7. The possibilities of liquid memory
  8. Dell reports bumper Q1 results despite supply chain woes
  9. Storage news ticker – May 26
  10. Toshiba edging nearer to 26TB capacity nearline disk drives?
  11. Nutanix lowers outlook for fiscal ’22 amid server delays and sale rep departures
  12. Zadara edge cloud surpasses 400 points of presence
  13. SoftIron investor says the biz’s storage servers have a low carbon footprint
  14. Will tape play a ‘critical role’ in the zettabyte era as its supporters hope?
  15. NetApp previews cloud-native Astra Data Store
  16. Rockport flat network boosts UK supercomputer
  17. Italy’s biggest bank uses Optane DIMMs and in-memory software to speed apps
  18. Storage news ticker – May 24
  19. NetApp public cloud boss on CloudOps: It’s ‘becoming a really, really big space’
  20. Copilot
  21. Hammerspace and the decentralized cloud
  22. NetApp public cloud chief Anthony Lye on asking app devs to design infrastructure
  23. Storage news ticker – May 20
  24. SK hynix lays claim to fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD
  25. Veeam rolls out backup SaaS for Salesforce, updates its Microsoft 365 service
  26. Komprise automates data workflows from ingest to analysis
  27. NVLink
  28. DataCore launches Bolt: NVMe-oF Kubernetes storage
  29. Storage news ticker – May 18
  30. IDC says Veeam is at top of data protection market with Dell
  31. Pure Storage to make Portworx a Kubernetes/Ops offering
  32. IBM launches ESS Spectrum Scale box optimized for AI
  33. Rubrik launches Rubrik Security Cloud
  34. Analytics startup Imply raises $100m in Series D funding
  35. LucidLink slams foot down after $20m B-round
  36. NetApp puts cloud-delivered desktops on the Spot
  37. Dell lifts lid on computational storage work
  38. Veritas chases public cloud and IoT edge with retooled NetBackup
  39. Gartner: Enterprise SSDs will hit 35% of HDD/SSD exabytes shipped by 2026
  40. GigaOm assesses unstructured data management market
  41. Micron reveals flash roadmap to 500+ layer 3D NAND
  42. Storage news ticker – May 12
  43. N-able Cove Data Protection embraces disaster recovery
  44. Software startup Observe scores $70m funding round
  45. Western Digital: The flash roadmap
  46. Pure uses Snowflake to get FlashBlade up close and cloud-adjacent with customers’ co-los
  47. Western Digital: The disk drive roadmap
  48. Storage news ticker – 11 May
  49. Three suppliers add ransomware capabilities to line-up
  50. NetApp E-Series storage certified for Nvidia SuperPod
  51. Backblaze cloud revenues: Storage grows, but backup still nearly twice as big
  52. Samsung releases camera card designed to live long and prosper
  53. Seagate pushes Lyve Cloud into Hammerspace
  54. Wear Leveling
  55. APU
  56. Western Digital spins out 10-platter drives
  57. ZFS
  58. EiB
  59. YiB
  60. ZiB
  61. Zettabyte
  62. Zebibyte
  63. ZB
  64. Yottabyte
  65. Yobibyte
  66. YB
  67. XPoint
  68. Word Line
  69. Wireless LAN
  70. WLAN
  71. VTL
  72. VSS
  73. Zoned Namespace
  74. ZNS
  75. Volume
  76. VM
  77. VLAN
  78. Virtual Air Gap
  79. VADP
  80. USB
  81. UPS
  82. UDP
  83. U.3
  84. U.2
  85. TSV
  86. TRIM
  87. TLC
  88. TiB
  89. Terabyte
  90. Thin Provisioning
  91. Tebibyte
  92. TCP
  93. TCP/IP
  94. TB
  95. Tape Library
  96. Tape Cartridge
  97. Tape
  98. STT-MRAM
  99. Storage Engine
  100. STO
  101. SSD
  102. SR-IOV
  103. SRAM
  104. SPOF
  105. SPEC
  106. SPC
  107. SONiC-DASH
  108. SONiC
  109. SoC
  110. SNIA
  111. A glimpse at Dell’s future
  112. SMR
  113. SME
  114. SMB
  115. Smart NIC
  116. SMART
  117. SLC
  118. SI Units
  119. Serverless
  120. SDS
  121. SCM
  122. SATA
  123. SAS
  124. SAN
  125. SaaS
  126. S3
  127. Storage news ticker – May 5
  128. RTO
  129. RRAM
  130. RPO
  131. RoCE
  132. Robot
  133. ReRAM
  134. Replication
  135. RDIMM
  136. RDMA over IP
  137. RDMA
  138. RBOF
  139. RAS
  140. RAS
  141. Ransomware
  142. RAIL
  143. RAID
  144. QLC
  145. pNFS
  146. PMR
  147. PLC
  148. PIM
  149. PiB
  150. Physical Air Gap
  151. PHY
  152. Pebibyte
  153. PCM
  154. PCIe
  155. PBW
  156. Storage news ticker – May the 4th be with you
  157. Panasas updates flash-in-a-box HPC system plus high-capacity hybrid box
  158. Western Digital faces conundrum: to split or not to split?
  159. PBBA
  160. PB
  161. Phase-Change Memory
  162. PATA
  163. PaaS
  164. Over-Provisioning
  165. OPI
  166. OCP
  167. Object Storage
  168. Object Lock
  169. OSI
  170. NVMe KV
  171. 3D-XDRAM
  172. Commvault records best year and quarter in its history
  173. Dell supercharges storage hardware underlying its software-defined storage
  174. Project Alpine: native Dell storage services in the public cloud and CloudOps
  175. Nasuni buys DBM Cloud Systems
  176. NVMe/TCP
  177. NVMe FC
  178. NVMe-oF
  179. NVMe
  180. NOR
  181. NAS
  182. NFS
  183. Storing 25 exabytes in a 2-inch Kenzan diamond wafer
  184. Cyber-resilient Dell brings the cloud to its customers and their data to the clouds
  185. NDMP
  186. NAS
  187. NAND
  188. Storage news ticker – May 2
  189. Intel has Optane chip hoard with no plans to develop tech
  190. Mibibyte
  191. MiB
  192. Megabyte
  193. MB
  194. Mb
  195. MR-IOV
  196. MCR DIMM
  197. Metadata
  198. MMIO
  199. MRAM
  200. MAS-MAMR
  201. MAMR
  202. M.2
  203. MLC
  204. LUN
  205. LTO
  206. LTFS
  207. Lock
  208. LAN
  209. Kilobibyte
  210. Kilobyte
  211. KiB
  212. KB
  213. Kb
  214. KVS
  215. Key-Value Store
  216. K8S
  217. Kubernetes
  218. JEDEC
  219. JBOF
  220. JBOD
  221. iWARP
  222. iSER
  223. iSCSI
  224. IP
  225. IPU
  226. IPFS
  227. IO
  228. Blu-ray
  229. DVD

April 2022

  1. ILM
  2. IDE
  3. IB
  4. InfiniBand
  5. IaaS
  6. Hellabibyte
  7. Hellabyte
  8. Holographic Storage
  9. HPC
  10. HSM
  11. HDD
  12. High Bandwidth Memory
  13. HBM
  14. HBi
  15. HBA
  16. Host Bus Adapter
  17. HB
  18. HAMR
  19. Gigabyte
  20. Gibibyte
  21. GiB
  22. GB
  23. Gb
  24. GDS
  25. GPUDirect RDMA
  26. GPUDirect
  27. GPU
  28. GDDR
  29. FTP
  30. FTL
  31. FRU
  32. FPGA
  33. Floating Gate
  34. Flash
  35. Filer
  36. File
  37. FICON
  38. FEOL
  39. ESCON
  40. Peer Software replication spawning more features
  41. Western Digital: COVID, contamination dent profits
  42. Fibre Channel
  43. FERAM
  44. FC-MAMR
  45. FCOE
  46. AWS launches IceLake Nitro SSD instances
  47. Vector Embedding
  48. Storage facing trillion-row database apocalypse
  49. China lockdowns hit Seagate revenue growth
  50. Storage news ticker – April 27
  51. SK hynix celebrates its best first quarter
  52. Infinidat accelerates high-end array
  53. Solidigm upgrades datacenter SSDs for speed
  54. Trench 3D NAND: The solid-state future?
  55. Storage news ticker – April 26
  56. Exbibyte
  57. Exabyte
  58. ETL
  59. Ethernet
  60. Akamai launches managed database service
  61. SingleStore will measure your app’s ‘data intensity’
  62. Erasure Coding
  63. ePMR
  64. Endurance
  65. For sale: Toshiba considering a buyout
  66. Kasten founders involved in another startup – sources
  67. BEOL
  68. Ei
  69. ECC
  70. EB
  71. EAMR
  72. E3.S
  73. E3.L
  74. E1.L
  75. E1.S
  76. EDSFF
  77. LRDIMM
  78. JSON
  79. Disaster Recovery
  80. DWPD
  81. dStorage
  82. DRAM
  83. DRaaS
  84. Codec
  85. DPU
  86. DNA Storage
  87. DIMM
  88. Deduplication
  89. Decimal
  90. DDR6
  91. DDR5
  92. Decimal and Binary Prefixes
  93. DDR4
  94. DDR
  95. V-Tree
  96. DASE
  97. D2D2T
  98. D2D
  99. CSI
  100. CPU
  101. Container
  102. ROW
  103. Snapshot
  104. COW
  105. Compression
  106. Storage News Ticker – 22 April
  107. WEKA moves file data at 2TB/sec on Oracle’s cloud
  108. Pure Storage wants to work with data gravity, not against it
  109. It’s a snap: Nebulon’s four-minute TimeJump restore
  110. CrossBar tries to secure embedded ReRAM IoT market
  111. CXL
  112. Computational Storage
  113. Composable Systems
  114. CMOS
  115. Storage news ticker – April 20
  116. CIFS
  117. Charge Trap
  118. CBA
  119. CAS
  120. Cache
  121. LBA
  122. CHS
  123. Byte
  124. Bounce Buffer
  125. Blockchain
  126. Block
  127. Bit Line
  128. MR-MUF
  129. Bit
  130. Log-Structured Merge Tree
  131. Binary Search Tree
  132. B-Tree & B+ Tree
  133. Binary Number
  134. Binary
  135. Backup
  136. Azure
  137. AWS
  138. Autoloader
  139. ATA
  140. VAST links arms with Vertica for fast analytics
  141. Seagate object storage used in exascale computing projects
  142. ASIC
  143. ASCII
  144. Storage news ticker – April 19
  145. Intel FPGA used to hook non-x86 processors to Optane PMem
  146. Web3
  147. GCRAM
  148. Archive
  149. Anisotropy
  150. Air Gap
  151. RDMA
  152. RNIC
  153. Zoned SSD
  154. AFA
  155. Coercivity
  156. 5G
  157. 3D Point
  158. 3D NAND
  159. 3-2-1 Rule
  160. Storage Glossary
  161. Storage news ticker – April 14
  162. Nutanix’s CFO exits to join startup
  163. There’s no flash in ExaGrid’s plan, says exec
  164. Backblaze puts out cloud storage migration service
  165. SMART brings Optane memory to AMD and Arm
  166. Bechtle pulls HPE Primera array from datacenter over performance issues
  167. MAID
  168. StorageMAP charts uncharted unstructured data oceans, estimates carbon footprints
  169. Tiered backup storage player ExaGrid turns in Q1 numbers
  170. Storage news ticker – 12 April
  171. Kaseya buying Datto for $6.2 billion
  172. Nearline disk shipments flatten as COVID sales boom cools down
  173. Intel’s not updating XPoint media for gen 3 Optane products
  174. KVCache
  175. OEM
  176. CTERA: Not storage, but a cloud data services biz
  177. NetApp on the CloudOps acquisition trail
  178. Storage news ticker – April 8
  179. Parquet
  180. Infinidat sticks to its guns for on-premises growth
  181. Komodor on quest to tame Kubernetes troubleshooting
  182. Dell storage dives into Equinix colo private cloud pools
  183. NetApp grabs Instaclustr data-layer-as-a-service startup
  184. Storage news ticker – April 7
  185. Seagate and Phison get up close and SSD personal
  186. Storage news ticker – April 6
  187. It’s graphic – Fungible composes GPU-as-a-service offering
  188. Storage news ticker – April 5
  189. Big data? Bring it on – XenData’s multi-100PB active archive
  190. Watch out RocksDB – Speedb is on your key:value case
  191. Model9 sells counter to mainframe data gravity for analytics and AI
  192. IBM resells SingleStore as a service
  193. Dell PowerScale syncs to object storage
  194. Networkless Pliops XDP is not a DPU
  195. HYCU makes Isilon its Protégé
  196. Qumulo aims to be a multi-protocol, multi-hybrid-cloud data lake services company
  197. MCP

March 2022

  1. MinIO says S3 is primary storage on the public cloud
  2. Apple could buy Chinese flash chips for iPhones
  3. Storage news ticker – March 31
  4. Nvidia Eos AI supercomputer will need a monster storage system
  5. Storage news ticker – March 30
  6. Samsung, Western Digital partner on zoned storage
  7. Micron: Mobile lets the side down in bumper Q2
  8. CTERA and Backblaze partner on cloud file services
  9. How VAST Data could realize Thinking Machines’ vision
  10. Storage news ticker – March 29
  11. VMware adds cloud file store on AWS
  12. Storage news ticker – March 28
  13. NetApp all-flash array sales edge in front of Pure
  14. Seagate launches 10-platter 20TB video surveillance disk drive
  15. Storage news ticker – March 25
  16. Phison says SSDs will soon need cooling systems
  17. Liqid composes MemVerge DRAM and Optane memory pools
  18. Los Alamos builds flash box for data analysis
  19. SCADA
  20. Astronomer gets $213 million for Airbnb-sourced DataOps development
  21. Nasuni scores more cash to fight file services war
  22. Western Digital wins ethics award months after settling lawsuit over SMR scandal
  23. Qumulo opens the door to Kubernetes with CSI
  24. Storage news ticker – March 24
  25. Storage news ticker – March 23
  26. NetApp is increasing targets thanks to CloudOps biz
  27. Kioxia announces PCIe 5 SSD and new fab plan
  28. Apache Kafka
  29. Apache Iceberg
  30. Apache Spark
  31. Nyriad releases SAN arrays with CPU+GPU controllers
  32. VAST Data launches Ceres storage drive enclosure
  33. HPE adds block storage to GreenLake
  34. Arcserve StorageCraft platform woes continue
  35. VergeIO – an HCI curiosity shop survivor
  36. Datto looking for takeover or private equity sale
  37. SOCAMM
  38. Facebook investigates silent data corruption
  39. Could Russia plug the cloud gap with abandoned Western tech?
  40. Tokens
  41. Snowflake unveils medical data cloud
  42. Liqid pours GPUs, NVMe storage into ThinkTank
  43. Kubernetes data protection is being neglected
  44. NetApp and Cisco reshape FlexPod for hybrid cloud
  45. WEKA chooses Pi Day to serve up latest rev
  46. Rockset expands public cloud duopoly to include Azure
  47. Redis targets modern data models with JSON 2.0
  48. Catalogic partners with Backblaze to tackle ransomware and tape maintenance
  49. Vcinity turns to Dell to help customers defy data gravity
  50. Intel: Third-gen Optane to be announced in the coming weeks
  51. Storage news ticker – 11 March
  52. Western Digital CEO details how he got the storage juggernaut back on track
  53. Flash and software-defined storage are taking over the datacenter
  54. Azure Oracle database speed doubles with Silk storage: source
  55. Storage news ticker – 10 March
  56. Lightbits Labs heading towards the public cloud and MSPs
  57. InfiniFS: Scientists claim to have solved the 100-billion-file problem
  58. NetApp withdraws from Russia
  59. Druva adds all-in-one snapshot, backup, DR service for Amazon EC2
  60. Brains behind Intrinsic Semiconductor Technology on ramifications of ReRAM
  61. Dell builds containerised ObjectScale on ECS base
  62. Storage leaders weigh in on their industry for International Women’s Day
  63. Kioxia adds speed update to slimmed-down enterprise SAS SSD line
  64. Storage news ticker – 8 March
  65. Nvidia buys Excelero to speed GPU cluster block data access
  66. Nutanix on course to turn a profit
  67. Storage suppliers start to pull out from Russia
  68. Pure-as-a-Service: Why eliminating labour through vendor-managed SLAs is the future
  69. CAG
  70. Veeam stops sales in Russia over invasion of Ukraine
  71. Faster SQL engine and new metastore for Dremio’s ‘data lakehouse’
  72. Storage news ticker – March 3
  73. Intel still has plans for 3D XPoint
  74. Chemical contamination at Kioxia, Western Digital NAND fabs cleaned up
  75. Pure Storage makes a profit for the first time as revenue rises 41 per cent
  76. Storage news ticker – 2 March
  77. Index Engines’ CyberSense checks newer data first to speed up ransomware scans
  78. Quantum starts selling its custom hyperscaler tape library rigs
  79. Strong order growth at HPE but storage revenues drop 3 per cent
  80. VAST Data grows to $300m bookings run rate in 3 years
  81. Smile – Fungible’s FunOS 4.0 brings DPU delight to entry-level systems
  82. Hazelcast’s streaming data in-memory software features hopping, tumbling, and tiers
  83. Imply shapeshifters change Druid’s appearance
  84. Micron speeds out faster, bigger enterprise SSDs
  85. Storage news ticker – 1 March
  86. Rakuten plays 5G cloud-native Symphony with Robin.io

February 2022

  1. Dell EMC and NetApp missing from DCIG’s object storage software top 5
  2. Future imperfect – Nyriad changes CEO as Future of Storage event loses momentum
  3. Hitachi Vantara offers customers ARCs to control the DevOps beast
  4. SolarWinds spinout N-able’s revenues heading in the right direction
  5. Supply chain woes dampen Dell storage revenues in Q4 of fiscal ’22
  6. Storage news ticker – 25 February
  7. Storage news ticker – 24 February
  8. Up to $5m compensation if Rubrik Cloud Vault recovery busted
  9. Hammerspace nails an EMEA office
  10. NetApp’s cloud ops looking strong as it reports seventh consecutive growth quarter
  11. NetApp splashes the cash on Fylamynt
  12. Zadara scores compute place in Seagate’s Lyve Cloud
  13. Dell adds petabytes with update of PowerVault arrays
  14. Hitachi Vantara refreshes mid-range storage hardware, software, and management
  15. Pure Storage PortWorx Q&A: Why storage needs a data strategy
  16. Veritas chasing hyper-automation with NetBackup 10
  17. Merkle Tree
  18. Wasabi scores Liverpool Football Club goal
  19. Nvidia plus Excelero equals acquisition – maybe
  20. Amp It Up: Snowflake boss pens hands-on CEO toolkit
  21. Veeam Data Protection Trends: Assume you will be breached
  22. Storage news ticker – 21 February
  23. Streaming fast: Druid’s event-based database practices for sub-second trillion row response
  24. RAG
  25. Embarking on your digital transformation journey? Make sure you fix your data first
  26. Storage news ticker – 18 February
  27. Tiger Technology makes time for file tiering
  28. Backblaze invests to flame brighter
  29. Pure Storage and Nutanix – the new incumbents
  30. A peek inside the N-able stable
  31. Norwegian banks in icy NFT Piql over Svalbard money
  32. Storage news ticker – 16 February
  33. SK hynix unveils DRAM processor-in-memory chip
  34. Evidence for Intel’s gen-4 Optane program emerges
  35. The new cloud infrastructure software stack
  36. Nutanix simplifies product set into five bundles
  37. WD cuts out DRAM for performance boost on new midrange gaming SSD
  38. BPM
  39. Calamu scores funding for self-healing data protection tech
  40. We’ve done disk-to-disk backup. It’s time we talked about flash-to-flash
  41. MAMR Mia: Toshiba HAMRing on past 40TB disk drives
  42. HDMR
  43. HBF
  44. Ocient tames data munching adtech monster
  45. Storage news ticker – February 11
  46. Pure’s Portworx gets AWS cloud-native blessing
  47. How Pure Storage helps customers guard against ransomware
  48. Quantum’s revenues fall as savage supply chain issues ravage costs
  49. Storage news ticker – February 10
  50. Nasuni bids for a seat at the table with cloud titans and NetApp
  51. Infinidat strengthens InfiniGuard with automated network fencing and more throughput
  52. VAST becomes backend Commvault target and tech alliance partner
  53. Storage news ticker – February 8
  54. IBM constructs CyberVault around new FlashSystem family
  55. Cool it: Optane needs a DRAM fix, but legal restrictions may have hindered partner progress
  56. Ondat backs Trousseau secrets manager for Kubernetes as open source project goes live
  57. NetApp beefs up its Astra Control plane for Kubernetes apps
  58. Azure offers free inward migration with Data Dynamics and Komprise
  59. Storage news ticker – February 7
  60. WEKA and Cisco funding contribution: Now you see it, now you don’t
  61. Fractal Index Tree
  62. vLLM
  63. REST
  64. Optane’s 2020 half billion dollar operating loss
  65. ACID
  66. Extreme inbetweeners: The rise of long-life no-IPO, no-acquisition, storage startups
  67. Octopus-like Red Hat adds Ceph persistent storage to OpenShift Kubernetes
  68. Sprawling, fragmented data is a ticking time bomb. Here’s how to defuse it
  69. Tosh disk ships and capacity rise faster than WD and Seagate in 2021
  70. Pure Storage finding kinship with Kyndryl
  71. Panzura’s Cloud Mirror provides multi-cloud high availability
  72. Storage news ticker – 3 February 2022
  73. DDN adds midrange hybrid box to IntelliFlash storage array line
  74. A bigger splash: StorPool deepens revenue in 2021
  75. VAST Data becoming vaster in stagnant marketplace
  76. Coldago storage Gems report has decent hit rate
  77. Storage news ticker – February 2, 2022
  78. Nutanix paints go faster stripes on AOS 6.01 software, announces General Availability
  79. Penta-level cell flash and VAST Data
  80. MinIO says no to GPUDirect, goes for Apache Arrow
  81. ReRAM race ramps up – UK’s Intrinsic Semiconductor demos CMOS wafer success
  82. Storage news ticker – February 1 2022

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