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December 2023

1. 27 DecUltiHash – making better dedupe hash technology
2. 22 DecB&F Christmas crossword answers
3. 21 DecDRAM sales surge shows Micron recovery strengthening
4. 21 DecStorage Ticker – December 21
5. 20 DecCerabyte shows off prototype ceramic archival system
6. 19 DecStorage Ticker – December 19
7. 18 DecQumulo makes another round of layoffs
8. 18 DecB&F Christmas crossword
9. 15 DecHard disk capacity slightly expanded in 2023 amid SSD competition
10. 15 DecToshiba exec: HDDs have a bright future
11. 15 DecStorage news ticker – December 15
12. 14 DecInfinidat goes down Arrow Electronics manufacturing route
13. 14 DecInspeere’s peer-to-peer backup storage protects against ransomware
14. 13 Dec2024 IT management trends: It’s generative AI and everything else
15. 13 DecNasuni’s post-$100 million ARR growth continues unabated
16. 13 DecStorage ticker – December 13
17. 12 DecVirtualZ mainframe data access inspired by female Apache warrior
18. 12 DecPEAK:AIO GPUDirect performance validated by HPE
19. 11 DecIBM Storage Ceph gets locked objects and more
20. 11 DecAI needs a data platform, and VAST wants to be it
21. 11 DecStorage news ticker – December 11
22. 11 DecGigaOm ranks NetApp as leader in scaleout file storage
23. 8 DecDisk Archive Corporation offers an alternative to LTO
24. 8 DecXenData touts advanced disk-based archive for media industry
25. 7 DecDell angles for PowerScale SuperPOD validation
26. 7 DecStorage news ticker – December 7
27. 6 DecDataCore bringing block-level tiering to SANsymphony
28. 6 DecVAST Data secures $118M in Series E funding
29. 6 DecMicron debuts 232-layer NAND 3500 workstation SSD
30. 5 DecKioxia launches RM7 value SAS SSD to prove there is life after SATA – this time, in space
31. 5 DecRubrik expands SaaS app data protection to Jira Cloud
32. 5 DecCloudian taps ex-3PAR CEO David Scott for board seat
33. 4 DecPure sees GPU servers constraining datacenter power budgets
34. 4 DecStorage news ticker – December 4
35. 1 DecHPE enhances GreenLake for File Storage
36. 1 DecDell revenues droop but hint at server and storage recovery ahead

November 2023

1. 30 NovNetApp and AWS boost FSx for ONTAP performance
2. 30 NovVAST Data claims vast cost-saving over Elastic File Service in Amazon’s cloud
3. 30 NovPure Storage revenues grow amid competitor declines
4. 30 NovNutanix hits record revenues amid evolving market
5. 29 NovHPE fails to crack $8 billion quarter barrier
6. 29 NovAWS radically speeds up small S3 object access with new tier
7. 29 NovNetApp’s Q2: Down we go again but things are getting better
8. 28 NovNvidia launches RAG-enhanced service to reduce AI errors
9. 28 NovStorage news ticker – November 28
10. 28 NovTrendForce anticipates diversification in HBM market
11. 27 NovSave your tiers: Wasabi supplies single-tier S3 cloud storage only
12. 27 NovIridia looks to DNA for archival storage solutions
13. 27 NovPanmnesia intros CXL 3.0-enabled memory sharing AI accelerator
14. 24 NovStorage news ticker – November 24
15. 24 NovNodeum punching above its weight in Euro HPC market
16. 23 NovSAS roadmap hits speed bump as NVMe cruises in
17. 22 NovMicrosoft advances toward glass-based archival storage
18. 22 NovNebulon unveils compact DPU for edge servers
19. 22 NovCerabyte demos ceramic-coated glass storage system
20. 21 NovLucidLink secures $75M to boost remote collaboration
21. 21 NovArcitecta upgrades Mediaflux to add streamlined data management
22. 20 NovAccelerating High-Bandwidth Memory to light speed
23. 20 NovDell places multi-cloud storage navigation in its APEX
24. 20 NovStorage news ticker – November 20
25. 20 NovHammerspace hammering out AI ref architecture
26. 17 NovHuawei gives OceanStor Dorado array all-flash teeth
27. 17 NovHYCU reaches 50 SaaS app connector landmark
28. 16 NovWestern Digital shipping 24 TB and 28 TB nearline drives
29. 16 NovWestern Digital denies hardware flaws in SanDisk SSDs
30. 15 NovStorage news ticker – November 15
31. 15 NovScality debuts ARTESCA hardware appliance for Veeam users
32. 15 NovLiqid unveils single server reference architecture with 16 GPUs
33. 15 NovSeagate HAMR drives come to Corvault
34. 15 NovCubbit’s DS3 Composer builds virtual private public clouds
35. 14 NovDell infrastructure embraces Hugging Face, pair have deal on open-source GenAI models
36. 14 NovCloudian object store gets bi-modal file and object access and global fleet control
37. 14 NovXinnor scores benchmark record with PCIe gen 5 RAID
38. 14 NovQuantum delays filing latest results amid financial reporting issues
39. 13 NovCohesity tuning Turing data cloud front end into context-aware answer generator
40. 13 NovHammerspace using Vcinity tech as remote data delivery and access pump
41. 13 NovPure Storage gets new Cisco FlashStack for AI certification added to Nvidia BasePOD validation
42. 13 NovStorage news ticker – 13 November
43. 13 NovPanasas accelerates bulk data access in latest software release
44. 10 NovNetApp doubles down on Microsoft Azure partnership
45. 10 NovNutanix veep talks HCI, SAN, and AI storage solutions
46. 10 NovBackblaze hits $100M ARR, but computer backup stalls
47. 9 NovGigaOm highlights key players in cloud storage landscape
48. 9 NovQumulo file system goes native on Azure
49. 9 NovGenerative AI: It’s not just for the big guys
50. 9 NovCommvault launches multi-vendor cyber resilience partnerships
51. 8 NovRubrik runs Ruby copilot on GenAI rails
52. 8 NovDell unveils AI and analytics storage appliance
53. 8 NovCommvault announces Arlie GenAI copilot at Shift shindig
54. 8 NovDDN’s petabyte scale and fast Infinia object store developed from the ground up
55. 7 NovNetApp sets up all-flash SME reseller deal with Fujitsu virtualized servers
56. 7 NovCohesity leaves Gartner distributed files and object storage MQ
57. 7 NovVMware will have different object storage integrations with MinIO and NetApp
58. 6 NovCohesity SmartFiles becomes Snowflake analytics playground
59. 6 NovCloud storage pusher Volumez talks up ‘age of OpEx’
60. 3 NovStorage News Ticker – November 3
61. 3 NovXinnor soups up Lustre for HPC and AI with xiRAID
62. 3 NovBackblaze blitzes cloud storage speeds with ‘shard stash’ cache
63. 2 NovNebulon’s Medusa2 DPU casts snake eyes at enterprise server fleet customers
64. 2 NovGraid GPU-powered RAID card outperforms Xinnor software
65. 2 NovYMTC first to ship 232-layer QLC NAND despite sanctions
66. 1 NovSnowflake unleashes Snowday announcement blizzard
67. 1 NovIBM unveils Storage Scale System 6000 for AI workloads
68. 1 NovCommvault dives into cyber-resilience

October 2023

1. 31 OctStorage news ticker – 31 October
2. 31 OctWestern Digital sees shoots of growth after HDD winter
3. 31 OctOxide on-prem cloud computer reinvents the server rack
4. 30 OctWestern Digital spinning out Flash business
5. 30 OctHitachi Vantara gives birth to AI-led Digital Services unit
6. 30 OctPure Storage exec shuffle combines FlashBlade and FlashArray product managment
7. 27 OctIBM reports robust Q3 revenue growth, with GenAI a catalyst for expansion
8. 27 OctVMware and Nutanix lead pack in Forrester HCI report
9. 27 OctSeagate revenue decline continues amid slow HDD sales
10. 26 OctOpenShift users now have a Dell APEX service just for them
11. 26 OctBackblaze B2 cloud / Stores HYCU backup data / In a low cost vault
12. 26 OctNetApp tells analysts it’s focusing on full AI lifecycle
13. 26 OctSK hynix talks up AI demand as memory market recovers
14. 25 OctNetApp intros QLC block array amid AI push
15. 25 OctCohesity adopts RHEL for Data Cloud
16. 25 OctPanasas overhauls leadership to target AI and HPC
17. 24 OctVeritas shores up cyber resiliency with partner network
18. 24 OctWhat is the best choice of storage in the container era?
19. 23 OctGigaOM names Druva and Commvault as cloud-based data protection front-runners
20. 23 OctOCP 2023 Summit unveils cutting-edge storage solutions
21. 23 OctVAST Data bags second GPU cloud customer, Lambda Labs
22. 23 OctKomprise adds zero cutover downtime to data migration
23. 20 OctHPE and Dell diverge on AI strategy
24. 19 OctDruva releases GenAI copilot for SaaS backup
25. 19 OctStorage news ticker Oct 19
26. 19 OctSk hynix said to have concerns over Kioxia-Western Digital merger
27. 18 OctSeagate pips Toshiba and WD to 24 TB drive
28. 17 OctStorPool: erasure coding protects against drive and node failure
29. 17 OctDell PowerMax update boosts green credentials
30. 16 OctDDN’s Paul Bloch: Race to AI has companies making purchase orders just weeks after they decide they need it
31. 16 OctMicron introduces advanced 7500 datacenter SSD
32. 16 OctNetApp and Equinix deliver bare metal storage as a service
33. 13 OctIndex Engines gains traction with major OEM partnerships
34. 13 OctExagrid passes 4,000 customer count
35. 12 OctStorage news ticker – 12 October
36. 12 OctRubrik brings data protection to MSP market
37. 12 OctEgnyte launches secure Virtual Data Room service
38. 11 OctAlation rolls out AI co-pilot, Analytics Cloud
39. 11 OctOwnBackup becomes Own Company, launches Discover SaaS data analyzer
40. 11 OctCerio datacenter composability tech uses decoupled PCIe
41. 11 OctHitachi Vantara unifies hybrid storage product range
42. 10 OctPure introduces DRaaS, offers rebate deal
43. 10 OctCloudian does a fast object storage speedrun with AMD CPUs and Micron flash
44. 10 OctBuilding cyber resilience with data vaults
45. 9 OctWestern Digital boss most disliked tech CEO in survey
46. 8 OctInterpreting the MLPerf storage benchmark
47. 8 OctStorage news ticker – October 9
48. 6 OctDatabricks report asks GenAI hungry biz to look at its lakehouse
49. 6 OctHow to stop ransomware thieves WORMing their way into your data
50. 6 OctDell goes all-out on GenAI
51. 6 OctCoreWeave lists Backblaze as customer data store
52. 5 OctCERN’s exabyte-plus of data needs exabyte-class EOS filesystem
53. 5 OctStorj is Adobe’s Premiere Pro storage cloud
54. 5 OctThe generative AI easy button: How to run a POC in your datacenter
55. 4 OctVeeam moves into backup-as-a-service for Microsoft fans with Cirrus grab
56. 4 OctNutanix boosts Data Lens to hunt ransomware faster
57. 4 OctNasuni hires new chief marketeer in go-for-more-growth push
58. 4 OctIntel semi-detaching Altera business for future IPO
59. 4 OctPublic cloud ephemeral storage can’t be persistent – right?
60. 3 OctBlockheads note: Dell refreshes PowerFlex and intros APEX Block Storage for Azure
61. 3 OctHuawei number 2 in all-flash array market, say analysts
62. 3 OctCohesity strengthens cloud data security reach
63. 3 OctCTERA fuses file and object access to data
64. 2 OctEphemeral cloud, decentralized solutions, and the future of block storage
65. 2 OctStorage news ticker – October 25

September 2023

1. 29 SepMeta Ray-Ban smart glasses use eMMC flash
2. 29 SepHPE establishes GreenLake-focused business unit
3. 29 SepStorage news ticker – 29 Sep 2023
4. 28 SepMicron’s revenues plunge 40% amid weak economy and China sanctions, execs banking on GenAI boost
5. 28 SepBullet the Blue Sky: Weka visits Vegas’s Sphere for U2 concert
6. 27 SepPanzura gets edgy with smartphone and tablet access
7. 27 SepFujitsu reselling Qumulo software on Gen 4 Xeon servers
8. 27 SepStorage news ticker – September 27
9. 26 SepDell APEX Cloud Platform comes to Azure Stack HCI
10. 26 SepToshiba’s 22TB disk drive arrives, catching it up to Seagate, WD
11. 26 SepCoreWeave GPU-as-a-Service cloud farm using VAST storage
12. 26 SepLightbits switches on block storage in Azure Marketplace
13. 25 SepVAST Data, model collapse and an ‘arms race’ for human-generated data
14. 25 SepDecentralized Storj positions itself against CDNs and AWS for AI model distribution
15. 25 SepNeuroBlade aims to be ‘the Nvidia of data analytics’
16. 22 SepWhat a mesh. How to tell a lakehouse from a data lake
17. 21 SepStorage news ticker – September 22
18. 21 SepKomprise wants to help monitor sprawling data estates
19. 21 SepKioxia reportedly refinancing loan for possible WD flash merger
20. 21 SepAllocating AI and other pieces of your workload placement puzzle
21. 21 SepSolidigm SSD looks to outpace rivals on random writes
22. 21 SepHYCU CEO wrote the book on SaaS data apocalypse
23. 21 SepGartner primary storage MQ shows consistency at the top
24. 20 SepStorage news ticker – September 20
25. 20 SepInfinidat adds AFA inside hybrid InfiniBox
26. 19 SepWilliam Blair downgrades NetApp, but storage firm remains ‘confident’
27. 19 SepVeeam pumps money into SaaS backup startup Alcion
28. 19 SepSeagate pushes green mass storage for media industry
29. 18 SepIt’s magic – the Billion Year Archive’s nickel hyper-DVD
30. 18 SepEgnyte brings AI classification to construction industry
31. 18 SepMLCommons publishes storage benchmark for AI
32. 18 SepStorage news ticker – September 18
33. 15 SepAcronis aims cloud data services solution at smaller MSPs
34. 14 SepQuantum provides plenty of solace to those seeking cheaper cold data
35. 14 SepEuropean server and storage sales through the channel plummet
36. 14 SepIndex Engines revs up with two data industry heavy hitters
37. 13 SepAI: Intelligent data needs intelligent solutions
38. 12 SepCTERA launches Vault WORM for better data compliance
39. 12 SepEnfabrica raises $125M for AI interconnect chip
40. 12 SepSQream screeches to $111M funding mark in big GPU data processing play
41. 11 SepIt’s no dance still at ailing data management artist formerly known as WANdisco
42. 11 SepIncreased cloud costs pulls focus of some SMEs to on-site storage
43. 8 SepUber takes the fast lane with Alluxio
44. 8 SepDruva flying higher in SaaS data protection
45. 7 SepFive emerging memory technologies, with MRAM in pole position
46. 7 SepGartner unveils hottest storage trends for 2023
47. 7 SepStorage news ticker – September 7
48. 6 SepEverspin MRAM revenue growth up by single digits
49. 6 SepIn conversation with new Panasas CEO Ken Claffey
50. 6 SepNasuni working with Presidio to manage AWS costs
51. 5 SepLenovo storage man talks market share, all-flash and more
52. 4 SepHuawei adds 5-in-1 scale-out all-flash array to portfolio
53. 4 SepStorage news ticker – September 4
54. 4 SepCerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage
55. 1 SepDell Q2 revenues better than expected, sees AI everywhere
56. 1 SepNutanix scents profitability after bumper Q4

August 2023

1. 31 AugQuantum improves private-public cloud data integration
2. 31 AugInfinidat data protection box bumps up restore speed with Veeam
3. 31 AugCirata rises from the ashes of WANdisco
4. 31 AugPure Storage revenues bounce back in Q2
5. 30 AugHPE storage biz holds its own against rivals
6. 30 AugHuawei OceanStor A310 feeds Nvidia GPUs at speed
7. 29 AugVAST Data making its presence known in the HPC market
8. 29 AugCisco partnership with Nutanix raises questions over HyperFlex
9. 29 AugFive steps to mastering multicloud management
10. 29 AugVMware separates out HCI storage in vSAN Max
11. 25 AugA deeper look at high-end storage challenges and opportunities: No more tiers, cries storage architect
12. 25 AugNetApp and Google deepen Cloud Volumes Service collab
13. 24 AugStorage news roundup – 24 August
14. 24 AugFrore goes insane in the membrane with cooling tech
15. 24 AugNetApp revenue drops for yet another quarter
16. 23 AugInfinidat leads in GigaOm ransomware protection reports
17. 23 AugProject Monterey: No word yet on Broadcom backing
18. 23 AugUnlocking the potential of multicloud
19. 23 Aug50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
20. 23 AugGraid enhances RAID card speed with software update
21. 22 AugTD SYNNEX gets into data migration transport biz
22. 22 AugTintri launches software-only VMstore and managed infrastructure service
23. 22 AugKioxia has killed its Kumoscale networked flash system
24. 22 AugPure Storage extends Azure Cloud Block Store to lower-cost SSD instances
25. 21 AugDatabricks reportedly seeking VC funding
26. 21 AugDRAM, that’s fast: SK hynix reaches for HBM3E sky
27. 18 AugHDDs may be greener than SSDs
28. 18 AugSamsung has 300-layer NAND coming, with 430 layers after that – report
29. 17 AugHammerspace CEO pushes NFS SSD concept
30. 17 AugIBM developing S3 interface tape library
31. 17 AugData recovery service for corrupted WD SanDisk SSDs
32. 16 AugStorage news ticker – August 16
33. 16 AugBroadcom beefs up Fibre Channel Director switches with more 64Gbps ports
34. 16 AugSupermicro preps storage servers for AI
35. 15 AugUK startup wins gong for accelerating CPU memory access
36. 15 AugNutanix puts ChatGPT in a turnkey box
37. 15 AugCoughlin: SSDs will not kill disk drives
38. 15 AugIBM tops Nvidia GPU data delivery charts
39. 14 AugUsing SSD data placement to lessen SSD write amplification
40. 14 AugThe challenges and opportunities for high-end storage
41. 11 AugHammerspace notches up AWS global rendering partnership
42. 11 AugSamsung pulls sheets off 256TB SSD
43. 11 AugStorage news ticker – August 11
44. 11 AugScaleflux ups computational storage SSD capacity
45. 10 AugLenovo picks Cigent data protection for its PC fleet
46. 10 AugPanmnesia CXL memory pool 3x faster than RDMA
47. 10 AugWestern Digital enhances OpenFlex JBOF
48. 9 AugRubrik buys Laminar to shore up security position
49. 9 AugIndustry giants push CXL memory frontiers
50. 9 AugSK hynix breaks barriers with 321-layer 3D NAND
51. 9 AugGartner sees shifting players in enterprise backup
52. 8 AugScality claims disk drives can use less electricity than high-density SSDs
53. 8 AugWhen hyperscalers catch a cold, Quantum sneezes
54. 8 AugMaxLinear pushes out 3rd gen Panther storage accelerator
55. 8 AugOptionality: The key to navigating a multicloud world
56. 7 AugXinnor RAIDs Kioxia datacenter SSDs for performance
57. 7 AugToshiba: $14B buyout offer led by Japanese businesses is go
58. 7 AugKioxia speeds up in datacenter SSD refresh
59. 7 AugCobalt Iron touts tech to migrate backups to its SaaS vaults
60. 3 AugStorage news roundup – 3 August
61. 3 AugBlancco champions permanent data erasure solutions
62. 3 AugBackblaze sees uptick in 8 and 10TB drive failures
63. 3 AugOrg puts nanofiche disks in lunar library in latest ‘billion-year’ archive effort
64. 2 AugFortra battles misuse of its cyber security tools
65. 2 AugWANdisco wants CEO and CFO bonuses back
66. 1 AugVAST reveals AI data platform vision and new database
67. 1 AugCommvault revenues static as subscriptions soar
68. 1 AugInfinidat reckons it’s bucked storage array sales downturn trend
69. 1 AugFlickers of light appear at the end of Western Digital’s tunnel

July 2023

1. 31 JulStorage system speed serving data to Nvidia GPUs
2. 31 JulChucking it in: Co-COO Whitten quits Dell
3. 28 JulNutanix’s looming profitability helped by Cisco deal, Broadcom-VMware concerns and NVidia support
4. 28 JulDDN says generative AI/ML work needs balanced read/write IO mix
5. 28 JulStorage news collection – 28 July 2023
6. 27 JulEgnyte rolls out chatbot AI concierge
7. 27 JulMicron sets high bandwidth memory benchmark
8. 27 JulSeagate cites ‘profound downturn in demand’ as revenues dip… and it won’t get better soon
9. 26 JulMemVerge puts lowering carbon emissions in AWS cloud app on the Spot
10. 26 JulSK hynix says memory market’s recovering thanks to AI, but it will cut NAND output
11. 26 JulHPE pitches Zerto ransomware product as a ‘real-time’ detector that’s data-aware
12. 25 JulBackblaze warns of AI-assisted cyber threats
13. 25 JulWANdisco readmitted to AIM stock market
14. 25 JulVAST Data wins TACC supercomputer storage contract
15. 24 JulDataCore reinvents itself with AI, containers, and edge-first strategy
16. 24 JulMarket optimism grows among some storage VARs
17. 24 JulDLP could not prevent Fortra, MOVEit breaches
18. 21 JulGartner storage hype cycle has selective memory
19. 21 JulNetApp, Pure Storage witness dip in all-flash market share
20. 21 JulStorage news roundup – July 21
21. 20 JulQuobyte is cool – liquid nitrogen cool
22. 20 JulDataStax goes vector searching with Astra DB
23. 20 JulSolidigm has world’s highest capacity PCIe SSD
24. 19 JulSocial media’s reaction to generative AI proves just how valuable data is
25. 19 JulAzure MANA smartNIC boosts network speed
26. 19 JulMicrosoft intros user content backup for M365
27. 18 JulHammerspace bags $56.7m in first funding round
28. 18 JulLenovo revs up NetApp and Azure Stack systems
29. 18 JulDell thinks generative AI will generate storage sales
30. 17 JulWestern Digital, Kioxia merger talks near completion
31. 17 JulCode42 confirms ‘difficult but necessary’ layoffs
32. 14 JulStorage news ticker – July 14
33. 14 JulWANdisco files going concern warning in 2022 annual report
34. 14 JulWe need network air traffic control for files
35. 13 JulCould NAND capacity replace HDDs by 2029?
36. 13 JulScale finds edgy replacement now that Intel’s shut down NUC
37. 12 JulDell cosies up to Microsoft with services for Azure and 365 users
38. 12 JulIBM intros safer entry-level FlashSystem
39. 11 JulVeeam CTO on SaaS backup, chatbots and ransomware
40. 11 JulNetApp renews DreamWorks Animation deal as latest film flops
41. 11 JulDisk drive shipment numbers take a dive
42. 11 JulExaGrid claims it’s heading towards 4,000 customers
43. 10 JulSeagate inks sale and leaseback deal for Colorado campus
44. 10 JulUnsure about your generative AI plans? Start with your data
45. 10 JulStorage news ticker – July 10
46. 7 JulCloudSoda brings some fizz to data migration
47. 7 JulPublic cloud spending rising faster than private
48. 7 JulSilk extends its Azure high end base down to mid-market
49. 6 JulSpanner in the works at Kaseya’s Spanning
50. 6 JulOpen source data lakehouse Dremio has a new boss
51. 5 JulWANdisco delays footwork to raise funds
52. 5 JulStorage old guard needs to have its cache and eat it too
53. 5 JulResearchers devise even faster 3D DRAM
54. 4 JulWANdisco raises funds for new dancefloor turn
55. 4 JulStorage news ticker – July 4
56. 4 JulCubbit storage is a hybrid of Web2 and Web3
57. 3 JulCloudian sacrifices some snapshots for software update
58. 3 JulGenerative AI has democratized AI – what does this mean for COEs?

June 2023

1. 30 JunZesty aims to take on cloud cost control
2. 30 JunDell-commissioned report praises APEX file services speed in AWS cloud
3. 30 JunWestern Digital boosts Blue consumer SSD line
4. 29 JunStorj claims edge in reducing carbon footprint
5. 29 JunWANdisco CEO laments ‘wasted year’
6. 29 JunDisruptive innovation? Storage has heard of it
7. 29 JunMicron still bumping along memory trough
8. 28 JunSnowflake, Databricks set to collide over AI
9. 28 JunStorage news ticker – June 28
10. 28 JunVirtuozzo pitches MSPs an alternative cloud
11. 27 JunCost-cutting fast Lightbits block storage available for AWS and Azure
12. 27 JunHitachi Vantara taps CTERA’s cloudy file services
13. 27 JunPliops founder hands CEO reins to Nvidia veteran
14. 26 JunDatabricks buys AI darling MosaicML for $1.3B
15. 26 JunNAKIVO ups backup game with malware scan
16. 26 JunStorage news ticker – June 26
17. 23 JunSeagate etailers leak PCIe 5 gaming SSD details
18. 23 JunMinIO: Open source object storage will rule the cloud
19. 23 JunStorage news ticker – June 23
20. 22 JunNetApp names new chief commercial officer
21. 22 JunDIY data science hits the Spot for MemVerge
22. 22 JunCommvault and VAST team up for faster restores
23. 22 JunA last line of defense against ransomware
24. 21 JunMicron doubles phone card flash speed
25. 21 JunSmartX releases IOMesh Kubernetes-native storage software
26. 21 JunXinnor, ScaleFlux squish the RAID rebuild
27. 20 JunInterSystems taps Volumez to provide storage
28. 20 JunStarburst takes on Presto with distributed data lake source silo access
29. 20 JunGenerative AI and automation: accelerating the datacenter of the future
30. 20 JunSeagate bringing HAMR and online drive regeneration to Corvault
31. 20 JunPanmnesia speeds up vector search with CXL
32. 19 JunGlean is the name, gleaning insights the game
33. 19 JunStorage news roundup – 19 June
34. 16 JunDatadobi charts course for AI with StorageMAP
35. 16 JunPure Storage sneaking up on NetApp in AFA Olympics
36. 15 JunVAST Data’s Elemental Pixarification for Disney
37. 15 JunDremio lines up hat-trick of AI enhancements
38. 15 JunWestern Digital HAMR tech ’18 months away’
39. 14 JunGigaOm gurus say three Cs lead large enterprise hybrid cloud backup
40. 14 JunPure intros fresh FlashArray features for enterprise
41. 14 JunZilliz offers access to database to combat AI hallucinations
42. 13 JunDDN revenues ride high on generative AI wave
43. 13 JunAI inferencing feels the need – the need for speed
44. 13 JunVergeIO launches IOfortify ransomware defense
45. 13 JunCTERA the latest file systems crew to add ransomware detection
46. 13 JunVersity open-sources S3 gateway with no poison pill
47. 13 JunQumulo running its own race, not looking over its shoulder
48. 12 JunPhison is the largest SSD supplier you’ve never heard of
49. 12 JunStorage news ticker – June 12
50. 12 JunWANdisco investors approve turnaround plan
51. 12 JunFrame no longer in the picture at Nutanix
52. 8 JunSeagate CFO dishes dirt on HAMR capacities
53. 8 JunCohesity cuts jobs – including its CMO
54. 8 JunSpectra BlackPearl targets secondary NAS market
55. 8 JunSeven steps for using zero trust to protect your multicloud estate
56. 7 JunWatch out malware actors! Commvault ramps up security measures
57. 7 JunCommvault security news Q&A
58. 7 JunA Quantum of growth, with more to come
59. 6 JunNyriad emerges from makeover to seek funding
60. 6 JunUnstructured data manager StrongLink heads OEMwards
61. 5 JunCisco and HPE reselling Cohesity Cloud Services
62. 4 JunRubrik co-founder reappears at AI analytics biz
63. 2 JunCloudFabrix wants to put the ‘AI’ in AIOps
64. 2 JunScality reckons there’s life in HDDs yet
65. 2 JunStorage relative bright spot in dismal Q1 for Dell
66. 2 JunStorage news ticker – 2 June 2023
67. 1 JunQumulo cosies up to HPE, makes upgrades easier
68. 1 JunAlcion sets sights on M365 backup-as-a-service
69. 1 JunNetApp’s sales slide, with no relief in the outlook
70. 1 JunPure Storage revenues show a ‘clear leader’ in denial

May 2023

1. 31 MayKomprise and relevance in the AI age
2. 31 MayStorj positions itself as Uber of storage world
3. 31 MayAruba gives HPE the edge and HPC glory offsets server gloom
4. 31 MayCompetitors cry foul over CloudCasa claims of Velero dominance
5. 30 MayN2WS: The backup rebels of AWS and Azure
6. 30 MayVAST Data makes moves towards Thinking Machines: it’s no longer a storage company
7. 26 MayPliops and phoenixNAP team up to turbocharge Redis
8. 26 MayStorage news ticker – May 26
9. 25 MayChatGPT, LLMs, and storage
10. 25 MayNutanix sales up but customer acquisition rate drops
11. 24 MaySeagate waits for HAMR time amid debt paydown
12. 24 MayHow to master multicloud from the ground to cloud (and back again)
13. 24 MayInfinidat upgrades to hybrid cloud storage
14. 24 MayPanasas shrinks HPC powerhouse into edge-sized box
15. 24 MayDell unveils Databricks deal, plus storage hits Apex cloud
16. 23 MayDell gets edgy with chatbots, Zero Trust, backup
17. 23 MaySpectra Logic and Arcitecta take on NAS market
18. 23 MayMemVerge, SK hynix say memory is endless now
19. 23 MayCohesity RAGs large language models coming through Google Cloud
20. 22 MayKioxia doubles capacity, write speed of client gumstick SSD
21. 19 MayStorage news ticker – May 19
22. 18 MayDDN generates QLC SSD array for generative AI training
23. 18 MayLearn to speak storage with our glossary
24. 18 MayCloudCasa bets on Velero Kubernetes backup
25. 17 MayVAST Data and Nvidia form SuperPOD squad
26. 17 MayDell wields NeuroBlade to cut analytics time
27. 17 MayScality plugs security, scalability and Veeam v12 support into ARTESCA
28. 17 MayKioxia CD7 SSD: PCIe 5 drive hits HPE servers
29. 16 MayMicron declares TLC NAND war on Solidigm
30. 16 MaySolidigm pumps out new QLC datacenter SSD
31. 16 MayNetApp wants to be cool kid of SAN with latest all-flash array
32. 15 May4 ways CIOs can optimize IT and boost business value
33. 15 MayStorage races to innovate in face of data explosion
34. 15 MayWANdisco has 2 months to raise $30M or crash
35. 12 MayGigaOm has fresh rankings for infrastructure unstructured data management market
36. 12 MayNew moves in AFA driven by QLC flash
37. 12 MayStorage news ticker – May 12
38. 11 MayHammerspace buys RozoFS for erasure coding tech
39. 11 MayIBM’s lowercase watsonx.data capitalizes on lakehouses
40. 10 MayStorage news ticker – 10 May
41. 10 MayDell PowerStore gets more snapshots than a tourist
42. 10 MayNebulon sets up TripLine for ransomware scum
43. 9 MayPure: No more hard drives will be sold after 2028
44. 9 MayInvested: WANdisco appoints turnaround CEO
45. 9 MayWestern Digital beats guidance by gnat’s whisker
46. 8 MayConfluent profitability keeps streaming away
47. 8 MayWestern Digital’s online store still closed six weeks after cyberattack
48. 5 MayNetApp gets file storage benchmark boost
49. 5 May3D DRAM could be revolutionary – if it works
50. 4 MayStorage news ticker – May 4
51. 4 MaySolidigm makes SSD file access zippier
52. 4 MayWANdisco cuts staff in wake of sales scandal
53. 3 MayNEO Semiconductor claims 3D X-DRAM has 8x density of rivals’ DRAM
54. 3 MayThe bigger HDDs come, the harder they fall. Well, kind of
55. 3 MayGartner: Begun the cloud file services wars have
56. 2 MayCommvault sees fewer large deals in flat but guidance-exceeding quarter
57. 2 MayStorage news ticker – May 2
58. 2 MayNvidia AI supercomputer shows its Lustre in Oracle cloud
59. 2 MayKinetica: AI is a ‘killer app’ for data analytics

April 2023

1. 28 AprChatGPT hype snags database startup $100M
2. 28 AprUniFabriX ‘doubles’ rack server density with CXL
3. 28 AprSingle sales rep inflated WANdisco numbers
4. 27 AprKomprise service auto tiers files to Azure blobs
5. 27 AprCECT tops SPC-1 for price with Optane SSDs
6. 27 AprBackup and security one and the same for CISOs
7. 26 AprStorage news ticker – April 27
8. 26 AprPure Storage updates FlashArray Purity OS
9. 26 AprBMC buys virtual tape library biz Model9
10. 25 AprRubrik, Zscaler double down on data protection
11. 25 AprWeebit Nano raises $40M to break ReRAM resistance
12. 25 AprPanmnesia boosts recommendation models with CXL
13. 24 AprHPE: Alletra is our storage brand to rule them all
14. 24 AprSingleStore embraces ChatGPT
15. 21 AprHungry hungry GPUs: SK hynix feeds 12-layer HBM chip to AI chatbot market
16. 21 AprHey Presto! IBM buys VC-backed SaaS player Ahana
17. 21 AprSeagate HAMRs way to top of nearline capacity
18. 20 AprWANdisco probed by UK financial watchdog
19. 20 AprSeagate hit by hellish Q3, with worse to come
20. 20 AprIBM looks to M&As after pancake-flat Q1
21. 19 AprStorage news ticker – April 19
22. 19 AprCache me if you can: Infinidat claims accelerated growth rate
23. 19 AprVolumez swells thanks to $20M A-round
24. 18 AprGartner anoints file systems and object storage ‘peer insights’ winners
25. 18 AprIDrive speeds cloud object storage with SSDs
26. 18 AprZadara hires new CEO in bid to keep cloud edge
27. 17 AprIt’s not about money: MinIO vs WEKA – round 2
28. 17 AprEqualum talks up its ETL, change data capture-fed, real-time data streamer
29. 17 AprImpossible Cloud skips crypto in Web3 storage
30. 14 AprRookout: our DevOps tools help squash bugs faster
31. 14 AprAttackers try to shake down WD for eight figures, claim to have 10TB of data
32. 14 AprBurlywood software aims to supercharge SSDs
33. 14 AprStorage news ticker – April 14
34. 13 AprSeagate arrives at the 22TB disk capacity level
35. 13 AprDatabricks wheels in Dolly chatbot
36. 12 AprWANdisco wins two contract renewals
37. 12 AprFeel the Power: IBM intros Direct PCIe-attach drives
38. 12 AprDataCore positions AI-enabled Perifery as its edge
39. 12 AprAlletra Storage MP: A first look
40. 11 AprStorPool: The traditional SAN is dead. Arise, software-defined multi-controller block storage
41. 11 AprStorage news ticker – April 11
42. 6 AprData management biz Nasuni eyes data intelligence
43. 5 AprStorage news ticker – April 5
44. 5 AprULTRARAM: potential new storage-class memory from the UK
45. 4 AprHPE GreenLake taps VAST Data for file storage
46. 3 AprQuantum enters storage software with Myriad
47. 3 AprWANdisco CEO and CFO step down as chairman becomes CEO

March 2023

1. 31 MarBack up a minute.. what day is it?
2. 31 MarKioxia researchers devise hepta-level cell NAND
3. 31 MarKioxia and WD’s BiCS 8 tech takes YMTC route: Separately fabs NAND control logic and cell stacks
4. 31 MarOpenAI operating on Cohesity data structures
5. 30 MarPliops looking to move onto BlueFields
6. 30 MarStartup Finout offers FinOps to stop SaaS spend disasters
7. 30 MarSamsung forecasts petabyte SSD in a decade
8. 30 MarStorage drive channel hopping defeats attackers: NexiTech
9. 30 MarStorage news roundup – 30 March 2023
10. 29 MarMicron bumps along bottom of the memory trough
11. 29 MarIs cloud repatriation part of your multicloud strategy?
12. 29 MarStorage news ticker – March 29
13. 29 MarCTERA appoints new CEO, adopts data governance business model
14. 28 MarEnfabrica takes a shot at fixing AI compute scaling problem
15. 27 MarLakefs brings Git-like version control to virtual dataset copies
16. 27 MarStorONE boss: We’re heading towards an IPO
17. 26 MarExaGrid claims uptick in customers in Q1
18. 24 MarBold claim: Cerabyte says its tech can store data forever with zero energy
19. 24 MarWe object! MinIO says no more open license for Weka
20. 24 MarEnterprises need one hybrid cloud operating model to rule them all, says Nutanix
21. 24 MarCohesity gets OwnBackup technology partnership
22. 24 MarStorage news ticker – 24 March 2023
23. 23 MarOVHcloud must pay damages for lost backup data
24. 23 MarVeeam lays off 200 staff
25. 22 MarOracle predicts: BlueField-3 is coming
26. 22 MarStricken WANdisco appoints new board chair
27. 22 MarQuantum says its souped-up video surveillance system supports more than 10,000 cameras
28. 21 MarStorage news collection – 22 March
29. 21 MarInfinidat hybrid array RoI? 11 months, says IDC in sponsored white paper
30. 21 MarQumulo plans all-in-one available-anywhere file services
31. 17 MarAIOps cuts support ticket numbers but not support desk jobs, claims report
32. 17 Mar3.4 times more Oracle MySQL transactions with Pliops’ SSD array controller
33. 17 MarGartner: So long HCI MQs, hello full-stack HCI software
34. 16 MarMost failed disk drives fail just before they hit 3 years’ use, says data recovery biz
35. 16 MarCyber security focused Rubrik admits internal system attacked via Fortra zero-day
36. 16 MarTaking a look at the ReRAM state of play
37. 16 MarSK hynix breezes past 300-layer 3D NAND mark
38. 15 MarStorage news collection – 15 March
39. 15 MarLenovo: Building better storage mousetraps
40. 15 MarAWS S3: You can check out but can never leave
41. 14 MarSeagate, Los Alamos bring compute to storage
42. 14 MarFormer Sage CEO Stephen Kelly slams WANdisco over board governance
43. 13 MarRuler SSDs rule Supermicro petascale servers
44. 13 MarThe holy Graid: RAID card with faster sequential writes
45. 13 MarStorage news ticker – 13 March
46. 13 MarTop 3 multicloud trends keeping IT leaders up at night
47. 10 MarWANdisco starts digging into sales reporting
48. 10 MarBackblaze: SSDs fail slightly less than HDDs
49. 9 MarKomprise dashboard shows savings from tiering
50. 9 MarInterlock: a greater data migrator?
51. 9 MarWho’s winning and losing in the storage market?
52. 9 MarCosnim intros its atomic approach to storage
53. 8 MarStorage news ticker – March 8
54. 8 MarIn conversation with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, AWS VP of Tech
55. 8 MarA tale of two realities: women in hi-tech balancing progress and backlash
56. 7 MarPEAK:AIO provides HPC-level performance for AI with NAS simplicity and low cost
57. 7 MarPure compression floats its gate array
58. 7 MarNutanix’s latest bumper financials overshadowed by 3rd party evaluation software probe
59. 6 MarAsigra takes on HYCU with SaaS app backup
60. 6 MarWANdisco aims to defy laws of data gravity
61. 6 MarEnterprise SSD market shrank in Q4 2022
62. 6 MarHuawei lifts covers off unstructured data storage kit for carrier data centers
63. 3 MarHPE Alletra storage sales a bright spot
64. 3 MarDell storage closes FY 2023 with record revenue
65. 2 MarKubernetes storage provider Ondat acquired by Akamai
66. 2 MarIBM reboots storage portfolio
67. 2 MarPure Storage growth fails to impress Wall Street
68. 1 MarPure swings FlashBlade//E at unstructured data
69. 1 MarPure claims 300TB flash drives coming 2026
70. 1 MarCanada wants to phase out data copying
71. 1 MarStorage news roundup – March 1
72. 1 MarWCKD RZR intros silo-busting data platform

February 2023

1. 28 FebPinecone: Long-term memory for AI
2. 28 FebWekaIO’s stance on sustainable AI puts down roots
3. 27 FebStorage news ticker – February 27
4. 27 FebKioxia in spaaace… as part of Spaceborne Computer-2 project
5. 24 FebScale adds easy-bake Edge HCI install
6. 24 FebVAST Data rolling out biggest ever software release
7. 24 FebSpectrum no more: IBM drops brand name for storage products
8. 23 FebPanasas’s halfway HPC house approach to the public cloud
9. 23 FebHammerspace: Other vendors are trying to copy us
10. 23 FebNetApp woes look set to get worse
11. 22 FebAmberflo on SaaS storage: Subscription billing is an aberration
12. 22 FebStorage news roundup – February 22
13. 21 FebDataStax clones decentralized blockchains into centralized AstraDB database
14. 21 FebOn-prem file storage catching up to object, SAN
15. 20 FebKomprise CEO talks up agnostic information lifecycle management
16. 20 FebApp storage engines speed up data IO, search
17. 17 FebStorage news collection – 17 February
18. 16 FebBackblaze fans cloud storage fires higher
19. 16 FebWestern Digital My Book drive reaches 44TB
20. 16 FebStorage security toughen-up for compliance and cyberwar in 2023
21. 16 FebSpectra Logic targets on-prem archive market
22. 15 FebWasabi believes in a single tier and no egress fees
23. 15 FebVeeam Backup & Recovery v12 aims at four object storage targets
24. 15 FebPure: The disk/flash crossover event is closer than you think
25. 14 FebStorage news ticker – February 14
26. 14 FebVeeam promises to SWAT away ransomware
27. 13 FebCatalogic’s CloudCasa heading for spin-off and fund-raising
28. 13 FebPulumi promises order for DevOps chaos
29. 13 FebThe incredible shrinking NAND leads to smaller paychecks for Micron execs
30. 10 FebRakuten Symphony makes distributed stateful cloud-native 5G edge play
31. 10 FebIBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
32. 9 FebBot city: CloudFabrix intros Robotic Data Automation Fabric for AIOPs
33. 9 FebHammerspace boasts of strong topline in 2022
34. 8 FebStorage news roundup – February 8
35. 8 FebVergeIO adds datacenter recipe book to VergeOS
36. 8 FebCohesity locks down Data Cloud in v7 release
37. 8 FebFolio Photonics hires engineering VP
38. 8 FebLenovo becomes global WEKA reseller and integrator
39. 7 FebNetApp pushes ONTAP into VMware’s Google Cloud Engine
40. 7 FebNetApp adds quad-level cell arrays to AFF range
41. 7 FebTurn up the Volumez: Storage orchestrating startup exits stealth
42. 6 FebHCI is more than a blip on GigaOm’s radar
43. 6 FebCloudian sees cloud software going on-prem
44. 3 FebStorage minnow Quantum bucks downturn
45. 3 FebHow do you back up 100PB of data?
46. 3 FebMr Backup spills the beans on 30 years in the storage industry
47. 3 FebInfinidat the front runner for enterprise storage innovation, says GigaOm
48. 2 FebSamsung investigating issues with 990 Pro SSDs
49. 2 FebDell takes VxRail hyperconverged systems to the rugged edge
50. 2 FebHYCU wants SaaS vendors to adopt its API for backup
51. 2 FebFourteen K8S backup vendors duke it out on GigaOm’s Radar
52. 1 FebWestern Digital revenue misery continues
53. 1 FebStorage news roundup – January 31

January 2023

1. 31 JanNasuni makes new board hire after bumper 2022
2. 31 JanWestern Digital quietly producing dual-actuator disk drives
3. 31 JanNetApp wages ONTAP war on Dell and Pure
4. 30 JanLucidLink in depth: low/no egress charges and direct bucket access
5. 30 JanLucidLink keeps remote workers in sync – fast
6. 28 JanVelero headache for Kasten, Portworx, Trilio
7. 27 JanCommvault in the market for new CMO
8. 27 JanSysdig’s open-source Falco draws on AIOps, data security to fight ransomware
9. 26 JanA Western Digital, Kioxia merger? There would be pain points
10. 26 JanSeagate reports first loss in years
11. 25 JanNetApp discontinues Astra Data Store
12. 25 JanPure’s full portfolio-selling sales force
13. 25 JanA block data migration specialist talks about … block data migration
14. 24 JanOut of the blue Komprise gets $37 million funding raise
15. 24 JanDell OneFS 9.5 is a streamer screamer
16. 24 JanPure Storage unifies global go-to-market team
17. 24 JanDataCore expands archiving with Object Matrix
18. 23 JanMcKinsey adds MLOps to its AI practice with Iguazio acquisition
19. 22 JanThe Cloud File Services marketing war
20. 22 JanStorage news ticker – January 23
21. 21 JanNasuni to grow bigger by getting deeper into enterprises with new CRO
22. 20 JanWEKA update jumps onto GCP, scales bigger, and moves data faster
23. 20 JanWANdisco refines data migration controls
24. 20 JanRubrik ARR hits half a billion – IPO ahead?
25. 19 JanIron Mountain on getting rid of storage junk
26. 19 JanPliops spreads wings with RAID supercharger
27. 19 JanAcronis license validation goes AWOL as company cops to ‘bug in the database software’
28. 18 JanToshiba exec says SSDs can never replace HDDs
29. 18 JanCloudian pulls in $60m funding to chase growth
30. 18 JanHitachi Vantara sips mainframe data via Model9
31. 18 JanVAST Data, Infinidat reportedly amongst 21 storage tech unicorns
32. 17 JanData management is still human labor for most Register readers
33. 17 JanInfinidat on CXL, SMR disk drives and green IT
34. 17 JanStorage news ticker – January 17
35. 16 JanFungible shareholder sues company: Wants to inspect the books prior to $190m Microsoft deal
36. 13 JanBackupLABS aims to protect niche SaaS apps
37. 13 JanQuobyte storage used for primary genomics data
38. 12 JanUnifabrix CXL memory node boosts core use
39. 12 JanSamsung launches new desktop gumstick SSD
40. 11 JanVAST may embrace GPU processing nodes
41. 11 JanSupermicro storage servers get a boost from Sapphire Rapids
42. 11 JanCommvault prelims forecast revenue downturn
43. 11 JanNetApp appoints new CMO
44. 11 JanHPE Apollo 4000 servers rebranded with Sapphire Rapids CPUs
45. 10 JanFourth 2022 quarter hard disk ships slip
46. 10 JanExaGrid thinks it can be a billion-dollar company
47. 10 JanVerge.io hires StorONE exec as marketing chief
48. 9 JanIntel leak appears to show last Optane PMem
49. 9 JanMicron launches faster U.3 datacenter SSD
50. 9 JanVMware and Nutanix still dominating HCI market
51. 6 JanWhy is there a market for S3 backups and data lake protection?
52. 6 JanOnly 50% of Israel’s startup unicorns are really unicorns: report
53. 6 JanPure Storage on its predictions for 2023
54. 5 JanEnfabrica intros hyper-distributed data moving ASIC
55. 5 JanStorage news ticker – January 5
56. 5 JanKioxia-WD merger negotiations reportedly restart
57. 4 JanOpinion: Online disk archives are just wrong
58. 4 JanLinbit pushes DRBD-based software as SAN replacement
59. 3 JanObject storage: Coldago moves Quantum up and Cloudian down in the rankings
60. 3 JanStorage news ticker – 3 January 2023