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Hammerspace buys RozoFS for erasure coding tech

Data orchestrator Hammerspace has quietly bought French startup RozoFS for its transformational erasure coding technology, the Mojette transform. RozoFS was started up in 2010 by CEO Pierre Evenou in Nantes, France, and has raised €700,000 in what funding it has made public, $764,000 in...

IBM’s lowercase watsonx.data capitalizes on lakehouses

IBM has unveiled its watsonx.data datastore using lakehouse uderpinnings to run multiple query engines for AI and analytics workloads, and claims this...

Storage news ticker – 10 May

AWS has announced general availability of new storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I4g instances featuring AWS-designed Graviton processors and AWS Nitro SSDs. With up...

Dell PowerStore gets more snapshots than a tourist

Dell is giving its all-flash PowerStore array direct integration with PowerProtect backup appliances, enabling it to provide storage nodes to VxRail hyperconverged...

Nebulon sets up TripLine for ransomware scum

Nebulon hopes to give servers a personal anti-ransomware encryption security guard with its TripLine technology. The hardware heart of...

Pure: No more hard drives will be sold after 2028

In the latest blast of the HDD vs SSD culture wars, a Pure Storage exec is predicting that no more hard disk...

Invested: WANdisco appoints turnaround CEO 

WANdisco investor Stephen Kelly, who called out the company's management when the sales misreporting crisis erupted in mid-March, has been appointed as...

Western Digital beats guidance by gnat’s whisker

Western Digital saw Q3 2023 revenues sink 36 percent annually as the HDD and SSD downcycle continues, but it did beat its...

Confluent profitability keeps streaming away

Streaming data storage and analysis platform Confluent continued making heavy financial losses during calendar Q1 of 2023, according to recently filed profit...

Western Digital’s online store still closed six weeks after cyberattack

Western Digital’s online store is still offline, six weeks after a March 26 cyberattack. WD has not yet completed its probe into how much of its data was copied by the attackers....

NetApp gets file storage benchmark boost

NetApp has a world-record SPEC Electronic Design Automation (EDA) score of 6300, easily exceeding the previous best result: 3,600 from a WEKA system. Update. SPEC comment added. 6 May...

3D DRAM could be revolutionary – if it works

We have become so used to 3D NAND that we forget how revolutionary it was back in 2013. The idea that you could radically increase the density of a NAND wafer by...

Storage news ticker – May 4

Apricorn has announced the release of the USB 10Gbps Aegis NVX, the first Apricorn encrypted device to feature an NVMe SSD inside. The NVX’s high-speed read/write capabilities at 1,000MBps are said to be...

Solidigm makes SSD file access zippier

Solidigm has smartened up its Synergy software to make reading data from its client SSDs faster, with the P41 Plus’s QLC flash delivering up to 858,000 random read IOPS across its PCIe...
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WANdisco cuts staff in wake of sales scandal

Stricken data replicator WANdisco is chopping around 30 percent of its workforce as part of a restructure following the March discovery that...

NEO Semiconductor claims 3D X-DRAM has 8x density of rivals’ DRAM

Startup NEO Semiconductor suggests its 3D X-DRAM technology could produce a 128Gbit DRAM chip with 230 layers – eight times more than...

The bigger HDDs come, the harder they fall. Well, kind of

Cloud and backup storage supplier Backblaze publishes quarterly hard disk drive failure rate statistics and has just started doing so for its...