Nvidia says Spectrum-X adaptive routing can boost storage fabric bandwidth
Nvidia says its InfiniBand technology-infused Spectrum-X Ethernet networking can increase storage fabric network read bandwidth by almost 50 percent.
Spectrum-X is a combination of the Spectrum-4 ASIC-based Ethernet switch offering...
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global.
The deal will give Quantum access to additional equity capital and liquidity. Limited initially...
Broadcom unveils Emulex Secure HBAs with post-quantum encryption
Emulex Secure host bus adapters (HBAs) from Broadcom now include post-quantum encryption algorithms and zero trust architecture to secure storage area network (SAN) data in flight.
HBAs are the endpoints...
Spectra Logic optical SAS switch expands tape connectivity
Spectra Logic has an optical SAS switch supporting 100 meter distances between servers and tape drives, providing connectivity cheaper than Fiber Channel.
Its OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch supports the SAS-4...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage News Ticker – 26 November
45Drives has announced the Stornado F16, its most powerful storage server to date. It has a 2RU chassis with:
AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs, expandable to 4TB of memory,...
Storage news ticker – November 22
Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, Backblaze expects...
Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework
Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range.
The main storage system suppliers are all scrambling to provide customers with reference architecture-type frameworks that place...
UALink Consortium invites new members to shape open AI interconnect standard
The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium, led by data processing and connectivity industry heavyweights, is now inviting new members to join.
The UALink effort was initiated in May 2024, and...
Lenovo hires WD disk exec to head infrastructure business
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla has been hired away from running Western Digital’s disk drive operations to lead the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) business at Lenovo.
At Lenovo, from November 11, he will...
Dell expands AI factory scope with PowerScale upgrade
Dell has enhanced PowerScale scale-out clustered file system arrays with full stack components for AI factory workloads.
We have written about VAST Data’s AI stack approach, and NetApp’s AI architectural...
VAST links up with Equinix and Cisco
VAST data is putting its AI storage and processing kit in Equinix colos and running its software on Cisco’s UCS servers as it broadens its routes to market.
The company...