Storage news round-up – 11 August
Open-source storage hardware supplier 45Drives has a strategic partnership with LINBIT, creators of DRBD and LINSTOR, to deliver fully-integrated, enterprise-grade high-availability (HA) storage systems built on open-source technologies. It...
YanRong excels at 3D U-Net, hits 513 GB/s in MLPerf Storage benchmark
Chinese supplier YanRong says it’s set an AI benchmark record in the newly-released MLPerf Storage v2.0 results. Its all-flash F9000X appliance, running its self-developed distributed and parallel file system...
Storage News Ticker – 8 August
Broadcom’s new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router scales to 36,000 HyperPorts, each operating at 3.2 Tb/s, with deep buffering, line-rate MACsec, and RoCE transport over 100KM+ distances. The 3.2T HyperPort...
Solidigm/VAST study says SSD system costs much less than disk drive one
Solidigm has released a 10-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model showing a VAST Data/Solidigm SSD system supporting 1 EB of data costs 58.9 percent less than an equivalent...
More winners than categories in FMS 2025 Best of Show awards
Every business seems to love an award and the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2025 event has Best of Show Awards-a-plenty. There were a record-breaking number of nominations,...
Exploring Liqid’s composability
Interview. Liqid has announced composability products enabling host server apps to access dynamically-orchestrated GPU server systems built from pools of GPU, memory, and storage, focused on AI inferencing and...
Sandisk unveils 256 TB SSD for AI workloads, shipping in 2026
Sandisk has announced a 256 TB SSD at FMS 2025 that will ship in the first half of 2026.
The Sandisk UltraQLC SN670 drive comes in 256 TB and 128...
HPE claims ‘world’s fastest’ backup storage with Alletra X10000 upgrade
HPE has announced high-speed backup ingest for its Alletra Storage MP X10000 array along with Zerto disaster recovery integration features at Black Hat USA 2025.
The Alletra Storage MP X10000 is...
Why HCI shouldn’t replace AFAs
Don't replicate the inefficiencies of three-tier storage architectures in software when you can build a simpler, unified system
There's a reason hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is failing to displace all-flash arrays...
SNIA dives into Storage.AI standards project
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is working on an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads, focusing on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches.
The SNIA...
Storage news ticker – 4 August
Data manager and protector Arctera has updated its Arctera Insight Platform to reduce the compliance risks associated with AI deployments. The new capabilities enable organisations to capture the input and output...
Xinnor claims massive RAID rebuild speedup over Linux mdraid
Software RAID supplier Xinnor claims it can rebuild a 61.44 TB SSD in a little more than five hours, around 10x faster than traditional Linux RAID rebuild software.
Xinnor's xiRAID...