Komprise and relevance in the AI age

How do storage suppliers find a way to be relevant in the ChatGPT world? Generative AI using large language models (LLM) has received an enormous boost with ChatGPT and its successors.  IT industry execs including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella are all...

Storj positions itself as Uber of storage world

Storj is a decentralized - but not Web3 - storage company with the sales pitch being that it can provide fast and...

Aruba gives HPE the edge and HPC glory offsets server gloom

HPE grew revenues 4 percent in Q2 of its fiscal 2022 - albeit missing previous guidance - with stronger sales of edge...

Competitors cry foul over CloudCasa claims of Velero dominance

CloudCasa this month claimed that open source Velero backup was far more prevalent in the Kubernetes data protection market than Portworx, Trilio...

N2WS: The backup rebels of AWS and Azure

Meet N2WS – an IaaS-style backup service on AWS and Azure that wants to be a great backup tool rather than an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink...

VAST Data makes moves towards Thinking Machines: it’s no longer a storage company

Storage supplier VAST Data is building a Thinking Machines-class system with its own queryable AI-capable database for asking and answering analytical questions,...

Pliops and phoenixNAP team up to turbocharge Redis

Hardware-accelerated box-of-flash startup Pliops is partnering with IaaS provider phoenixNAP to offer petabyte-scale Redis clusters to users with in-memory-class performance.

Storage news ticker – May 26

Data protector ArcServe paid DCIG to review its UDP 9.0 backup product. The resulting study found that ArcServe UDP 9.0 offers organizations...

ChatGPT, LLMs, and storage

Analysis: The IT analytics world is being dominated by a storm of interest in Large Language Model (LLM) machine learning and generative...

Nutanix sales up but customer acquisition rate drops

Hybrid cloud and hyperconverged software and cloud vendor Nutanix beat Wall Street with its third fiscal 2023 quarter results, but its customer acquisition rate is slowing. Revenues in the...

Seagate waits for HAMR time amid debt paydown

Seagate wants to raise $1 billion in a private bond placement to pay off debt as it begins the process of laying off staff following dreadful Q3 results. Revenue...

How to master multicloud from the ground to cloud (and back again)

Advertorial: We live in a rich world of cloud services. Inside many companies, innovation engines within different lines of businesses utilize these services to gain instant access to cutting-edge tools, enabling them...

Infinidat upgrades to hybrid cloud storage

High-end array supplier Infinidat says it is now a hybrid on-premises and public cloud storage supplier with strengthened cyber-resilience and new deep scanning and indexing detection features. Update. AWS...

Panasas shrinks HPC powerhouse into edge-sized box

Panasas has halved the size of its ActiveStor Ultra parallel file system node to make a lower-cost edge datacenter box. The ActiveStor range runs scale-out PanFS, with NFS and...
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Dell unveils Databricks deal, plus storage hits Apex cloud

Analysis: A deeper look into Dell’s APEX announcements in Vegas this week reveals a deal with Databricks for Dell storage to feed...

Dell gets edgy with chatbots, Zero Trust, backup

On the second day of Dell Technologies World, the Texan tech titan has announced projects looking at chatbots, Zero Trust security, edge...

Spectra Logic and Arcitecta take on NAS market

SpectraLogic and Arcitecta are partnering to enter the high-performance scale-out NAS market with the former's all-flash BlackPearl storage system and the latter's...