5G
5G – Fifth generation wireless networking. This is up to 100 times faster than the current 4G broadband cellular network standard used by mobile phones. 5G has been designed...
Big data? Bring it on – XenData’s multi-100PB active archive
XenData has announced an X100 active archive which can manage multiple hundreds of petabytes in tape or optical cartridge libraries with a front-end RAID cache.
This system is for enterprises...
NetApp withdraws from Russia
NetApp is suspending its Russian operations in light of the Ukraine invasion.
The company has employees in Russia and sells to local businesses via an OEM agreement with Fujitsu. Tech...
Storage news ticker – 25 February
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The Backblaze S3 Compatible API implements the most commonly used S3 operations, allowing applications to integrate with Backblaze B2 in exactly the same way as with Amazon S3. Postman...
Storage news ticker – February 11
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The CXL (Computer Express Link) Consortium announced the acceptance of Gen-Z Consortium's assets and the Gen-Z specification, and will post the Gen-Z specification as an archive on CXL Consortium's public...
Dell’s packed performant PowerStore update
Dell has release version 2.1 of its PowerStore software with performance improvements, NVMe/TCP functionality, automated IP SAN setup and management improvements. It's also released XtremIO v6.4 software, and there's...
DPU wars: NVIDIA claims BlueField-2 faster than Fungible – and test details show it
NVIDIA says its BlueField-2 smartNIC/DPU can link a storage system to a server and run four times as fast as Fungible’s competing hardware and software. But it did not...
Rockport gets co-CEOs and $48 million extra funding
Datacentre networking upstart Rockport Networks has taken in $48 million in new but non-VC funding, and recruited a second CEO to work alongside existing CEO and co-founder Doug Carwardine.
Rockport...
Intel building tri-partner SmartNIC/IPU ecosystem around Oak Springs Canyon
Intel is partnering a Chinese server vendor, a Chinese network system supplier and an Israeli server NIC supplier to push its Oak Springs Canyon IPU server offload technology into the...
Storage news ticker – November 22
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Datto management believes it is currently the largest pure-play backup software supplier to the MSP market and growing faster than competitors ConnectWise, Kaseya, and N-able. (Thanks to Jason Ader...
It’s a RoCE road: Kioxia’s Ethernet JBOF SSDs
Kioxia has launched EM6 SSDs accessed over RoCE NVMe-over-Fabric links and installed in a 24-slot EBOF — an Ethernet Bunch of Flash box — capable of pumping out 20...
Storage News Ticker – November 10
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Public cloud SaaS data protector Clumio announced availability of Clumio Protect for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cluster (EC2). Its air-gapped SQL backups provide ransomware protection for applications,...