Veritas remnant Arctera bought by Cloud Software Group

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The Carlyle Group-owned Arctera is being acquired by the Cloud Software Group. Arctera is the collection of Veritas assets left…
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Sandisk unveils 256 TB SSD for AI workloads, shipping in 2026

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Sandisk has announced a 256 TB SSD at FMS 2025 that will ship in the first half of 2026. The…

Backblaze drive stats show 20 TB-class drives doing very well

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Cloud storage provider Backblaze found that its disk drive failure rate was lower in the second 2025 quarter as previously…

HPE claims 'world's fastest' backup storage with Alletra X10000 upgrade

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HPE has announced high-speed backup ingest for its Alletra Storage MP X10000 array along with Zerto disaster recovery integration features at…

Why HCI shouldn't replace AFAs

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Don't replicate the inefficiencies of three-tier storage architectures in software when you can build a simpler, unified system There's a…

Arrays speed up for MLPerf Storage Benchmark v2.0

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The second edition of the MLPerf Storage benchmark shows tested systems serving roughly twice the number of accelerators than in…

MinIO blends object storage and table data for GenAI workloads

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MinIO is becoming a multi-modal data store for AI, providing tools for it to access and use that data. This has…

SNIA dives into Storage.AI standards project

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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is working on an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI…

VAST Data looks to vacuum up more cash

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VAST Data is reportedly looking to raise new funding - several billion dollars potentially, from Alphabet, Nvidia, and others, based…

Storage news ticker - 4 August

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Data manager and protector Arctera has updated its Arctera Insight Platform to reduce the compliance risks associated with AI deployments. The new…

Hitachi Vantara extends VSP One SDS to Google cloud

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Hitachi Vantara has ported its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) One software-defined storage to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to provide…

Scale Computing acquired by Acumera which becomes … Scale Computing

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Acumera, supplier of edge computing, managed network security, and network operations for multi-site businesses, has bought hyperconverged infrastructure business Scale…

Western Digital Q4 buoyed by cloud buyers as nearline HDD focus deepens

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Western Digital posted a strong set of fourth quarter financial results as cloud and datacenter customers accounted for 90 percent of…

Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability

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Micron has announced three different SSDs aimed at three different markets. The 9650 is a PCIe Gen 6 SSD using…

Seagate posts 30% growth as HAMR drives lift it from slump

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Seagate revenues grew by almost 39 percent year-on-year in the corporation's fiscal 2025 ended June 27 as HAMR drives lifted…

Enfabrica touts elastic AI memory fabric for GPU workload efficiency

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Enfabrica EMFASYS technology brings Ethernet RDMA and CXL together to produce a memory appliance that can be connected to AI…

Lightbits claims IOPS highs in shared block storage tests with Supermicro servers

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Lightbits claims it has demonstrated the fast performing shared block storage for containerized transaction processing in a benchmark validation using…

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