Samsung developing 400-plus-layer 3D NAND – Blocks and Files
Samsung, currently on its ninth-generation 3D NAND with 286 layers, has 400-layer technology in development.| Blocks and Files
Samsung, currently on its ninth-generation 3D NAND with 286 layers, has 400-layer technology in development.| Blocks and Files
SK Hynix has “assembled” what it says in the industry’s first high NA EUV lithography system, positioning it to supply the next generation of DRAM which will require “extreme scaling and high density.” Using ASML’s TWINSCANE EXE:5200B, the production line will be able to print transistors 1.7 times smaller than its existing EUV system and […]| Blocks and Files
Neo4j has launched Infinigraph, a graph database that can run operational and analytical workloads together in a single system at 100TB+ scale. A Neo4j knowledge graph database systematically stores nodes and relationships between different data entities instead of tables or documents, which customers can then analyse. Its products are used by 84 of the Fortune […]| Blocks and Files
Cisco has allied with Nvidia and VAST Data to launch a Secure AI Factory – a bundle of servers, GPUs, and storage designed for enterprise AI. These Secure AI Factories are, like Dell’s AI Factories – a form of converged infrastructure (CI) – uniting suppliers’ offerings in a single SKU for customer convenience. Cisco has […]| Blocks and Files
Startup Geniez is stepping out of stealth mode, developing software to connect AI Large Language Models and agents with mainframes and extract real-time data for AI use. LLMs and agents typically query x86 server and unstructured data held on storage arrays or in the public cloud. They use existing search methodology to look at structured data […]| Blocks and Files
XenData, which sells tape and cloud archive systems, is adding support for ALTO spun-down disk archives so customers can manage tape, disk, and cloud storage under a single file system with built-in replication. XenData provides products such as on-prem X-Series LTO tape archives and Media Portal viewers for the media and entertainment industry and allied […]| Blocks and Files
Veeam has introduced a backup software appliance to make it easier to deploy, install, and operate its Data Platform backup and cyber-resilience product on physical or virtual servers, on-premises and in the cloud. This Veeam Software Appliance is delivered as a pre-configured, bootable ISO image or as a virtual appliance, and runs on a hardened, […]| Blocks and Files
Cohesity is like a three-tier company, with the tiers growing larger as new growth opportunities emerge. This was a perception that resulted from a conversation with CEO Sanjay Poonen. He said Cohesity stared out as an enterprise backup and restore, data protection company, built round a file system that provided great performance, scale and extensibility. […]| Blocks and Files
Eighty-three percent of businesses that suffered a ransomware infection in the last two years recovered, with only 17 percent suffering permanent data loss, according to the 2025 State of Data and Cloud Strategy Survey Report by cloud file services company CTERA. CTERA surveyed 300 senior IT and security leaders from the US, EMEA, and APAC […]| Blocks and Files
Digital in-memory compute chip startup d-Matrix has a new 3D stacking memory technology (3DIMC) promising to run AI models 10x faster and slash energy use by up to 90 percent compared to the current industry standard, HBM4. The firm was founded in 2019 by CEO Sid Sheth and CTO Sudeep Bhoja, both executives at high-speed […]| Blocks and Files
Entertainment and media-focused storage supplier 45Drives launched the Storage Setup Wizard, a free, open source desktop app that finally makes Linux/ZFS storage servers simple, secure, and accessible. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, the Wizard auto-discovers and configures 45HomeLab and 45Professional servers directly over a local network—no keyboard, monitor, or Linux expertise required. Dr. Doug […]| Blocks and Files
Rubrik’s virtually air-gapped immutable cloud vault backup store now supports Google Cloud as well as AWS and Azure. The Rubrik Cloud Vault (RCV) is a component in the overall Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) that provides a managed, cloud-native, secure, isolated in-cloud repository for immutable backups of a customer’s data, be it in AWS, Azure, or […]| Blocks and Files
Interview: Denodo claims its DeepQuery facility enables generative AI to go beyond retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which just retrieves facts. DeepQuery investigates, synthesizes, and explains its reasoning. Denodo says DeepQuery will let users ask questions such as “What’s driving changes in customer retention across regions?” and respond by connecting to live, governed data across different systems, […]| Blocks and Files
The US is reversing its stance on export exemptions, which effectively cripples Samsung and SK hynix's DRAM and 3D NAND production in China.| Blocks and Files
Nutanix reached a negative landmark, with losses exceeding revenues in its latest quarter, but financial analysts are happy with its progress. Revenues were $378.52 million in its first fiscal 2022 quarter, which ended October 31, up 21 per cent annually, for a loss of $419.8 million. For every dollar it earned Nutanix spent $1.11 — […]| Blocks and Files
Startup Nebulon has announced for the first time a customer win for its storage processing unit-based smartCore infrastructure. The client – South African MSP SYSDBA – said choosing Nebulon was a “no-brainer.” The Service Processing Unit (SPU – originally called a Storage Processing Unit) is a PCIe card added to a server and controlled through […]| Blocks and Files
Nebulon, which launched its hardware-assisted cloud-defined storage in June last year, has broadened its scope to become a smart infrastructure SaaS supplier providing a better hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offering. The startup’s first product was a Storage Processing Unit (SPU), an add-in, FH-FL PCIe card, with an 8-core, 3GHz ARM CPU plus encryption/dedupe offload engine. This […]| Blocks and Files
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DPU startup Fungible recently briefed Blocks & Files on its views regarding Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit. Co-founder and CEO Pradeep Sindhu said it was inadequate as a data centre cost saver, lacked imagination, and couldn’t help solve the public cloud’s trillion-dollar paradox, also known as the Hotel California problem. Intel launched its data processing unit […]| Blocks and Files
Nvidia is adding storage controller functions to its BlueField-2 SmartNIC card and is gunning for business from big external storage array vendors such as Dell, Pure and VAST Data. Update: Fungible comment added; 3 December 2020. Kevin Deierling, Nvidia SVP marketing for networking, outlined in a phone interview yesterday a scheme whereby external storage array […]| Blocks and Files
VMware and Nvidia announced yesterday they are working to make VMware software work better with Nvidia chips. They say the joint initiative, dubbed Project Monterey, will “introduce a new security model that offloads hypervisor, networking, security and storage tasks from the CPU to the DPU”. The aim is to offload hypervisor, networking, security and storage […]| Blocks and Files
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Q&A How does Pensando Systems work its server speed-enhancing magic? The venture-back startup came out of stealth in late October and NetApp was revealed as a customer earlier this week. At the time of de-cloaking to announce it had raised $145m in a C-series round, Pensando claimed its proprietary accelerator cards perform five to nine […]| Blocks and Files
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Composable infrastructure startup DriveScale and its team have been absorbed into Twitter. Nick Tornow, a platform lead at Twitter, tweeted: “DriveScale’s extremely experienced team will bring deep knowledge of storage protocols, technologies, and products to help us develop a persistent block-level storage product in our data centres to accelerate application development across the company.” Terms […]| Blocks and Files
Liqid, the composable infrastructure vendor, has won a $20.6m deal with the US Army Corps of Engineers – bagging its third supercomputer contract in a month. In August, Liqid scooped up two DoD contracts, totalling nearly $32m for two composable systems, with a combined 15 petaflops, that will run physics-based, AI, and ML applications for […]| Blocks and Files
Dell is adding GPUs, FPGAs and NVMe storage to the MX7000 composable system via a deal with Liqid. This makes the MX7000 systems better suited for data-intensive applications such as AI, machine learning and low-latency analytics. Dell indirectly announced the hookup with Liqid, a software-defined composable infrastructure vendor, via a reference architecture document published on […]| Blocks and Files
At the SC19 event Composable systems startup Liqid announced it can compose servers with Western Digital’s OpenFlex storage both within and across racks in a data centre, thanks to NVMe over Fabrics. Liqid says users can manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate data centre devices on-demand as workflows […]| Blocks and Files
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NetApp is the first storage vendos to respond to the rise of VAST Data with its internal ONTAP Data Platform for AI development.| Blocks and Files
VAST Data has brought Nvidia hardware and NIM microservices software into its AI portfolio to create an InsightEngine product.| Blocks and Files
Dell has boosted the query speed of its data lakehouse, added and upgraded connectors, and improved monitoring and security.| Blocks and Files
Dell has announced a PowerScale F910 system with a parallel file system.| Blocks and Files
Dell has upped its PowerScale scaleout filer game with two models featuring Sapphire Rapids Xeon controllers and PCIe 5 buses to move data faster around the system. PowerScale systems are basically PowerEdge servers with directly attached storage, running the OneFS operating system. There were three PowerScale models: F200, F600 and F900. They all use the […]| Blocks and Files
Nemo – NeMo (Neural Modules) is an Nvidia framework and toolkit designed to build, train, and deploy large-scale language models, speech recognition, and generative AI models. It’s specifically tailored for natural language processing (NLP), automatic speech recognition (ASR), and text-to-speech applications. NeMo provides pre-trained models, customizable pipelines, and tools for fine-tuning, allowing developers to integrate […]| Blocks and Files
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The vast market penetration of MinIO’s open source object storage software has enabled the company to raise $103 million at a >$1 billion unicorn valuation. The cash will be used for marketing, and not building out a worldwide sales and branch office infrastructure. The adoption statistics for its software almost defy belief: ARR grew by […]| Blocks and Files
Cloudian and WEKA have partnered to add exabyte-scalable backend HyperStore object storage to WEKA’s scale-out, parallel Data Platform for AI filesystem software. The two say their combined products, integrated through WEKA’s tiering function, unifies and simplifies the data pipeline for performance-intensive workloads and accelerated DataOps. It’s managed under a single namespace and – they claim […]| Blocks and Files
Scality has popped the lid on ARTESCA, its new cloud-native object storage, co-designed with HPE, that is available alongside its existing RING object storage product. Artesca configurations start with a single Linux server and then scale out, whereas the RING product requires a minimum of three servers. The Kubernetes-orchestrated ARTESCA container software runs on x86 […]| Blocks and Files
Dell EMC is developing a cloud-native object storage called ObjectScale that will work with Tanzu and provision object storage via Kubernetes. The company will integrate ObjectScale software with the vSAN Data Persistence Platform and so work with VMware Cloud Foundation. ObjectScale will enable object storage to be deployed anywhere that VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu […]| Blocks and Files
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Nasuni customers can now integrate their Nasuni data stores and workflows with customer’s customized Copilot assistants.| Blocks and Files
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Nasuni has hired a CMO to to push its cloud file services offering deeper into the market. The company hired Pete Agresta from Pure to be CRO in January and Jim Liddle, the ex-CEO of acquired Storage Made Easy, and data intelligence technology promotor, was appointed to the Chief Innovation Officer role in August. Now […]| Blocks and Files
Egnyte has introduced specific AI/ML services to trigger workflows for images and documents in the AEC market.| Blocks and Files
Cloud file data services supplier Nasuni is extending its Presidio partnership to include AWS public cloud control.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni aims to become a data intelligence company, using software to analyze and locate automatically indexed and tagged file data. Jim Liddle, VP for Nasuni’s Access Anywhere Product, told us the business – which currently supplies cloud-based file services, in contrast to on-premises filers – has exceeded a $100 million annual revenue run rate, and […]| Blocks and Files
Nasuni cloud file services proved popular in 2022 with a 52 percent rise in customer numbers to almost 750.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni wants growth in its cloud file services offering through a much larger enterprise presence. To that end, it has a new chief revenue officer: Pete Agresta, who comes from being VP enterprise sales at Pure Storage. We’re told that, at Pure, Agresta built an enterprise sales team that more than doubled Pure’s enterprise revenue […]| Blocks and Files
Cloud file data services supplier Nasuni has made its second acquisition in two months, buying UK-based Storage Made Easy.| Blocks and Files
Cloud file system supplier Nasuni has bought replicator DBM Cloud Systems to move on-premises file data to Nasuni’s cloud.| Blocks and Files
Nasuni has scored $60m in funding to keep growing its business with software development, expansion, and strategic acquisitions.| Blocks and Files
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VAST Data is providing its AI OS, including all-flash storage, to the SK Telecom Petasus AI Cloud which provides GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) in South Korea’s sovereign AI cloud. SK Telecom, South Korea’s main telecommunications supplier, is evolving into an AI company. It is building an AI infrastructure based on a Haein cluster of Supermicro GPU servers […]| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage looked at the VAST/Solidigm SSDs vs HDDs white paper and thought that its device-level TCO comparison was not all there was to say. The company claims that its Direct Flash Modules can do better than either alternative, specifically on power usage and embodied Carbon. This is because its Direct Flash Modules (DFMs) having […]| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage has won a deal to supply ITS flash drive technology to Meta, with analysts seeing this as “an extremely positive outcome."| Blocks and Files
VAST Data says SK Telecom is using its storage for the GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) element of its sovereign AI infrastructure offering. SK Telecom (SKT) has launched a sovereign AI Infrastructure, providing GPUaaS based on more than 1,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs integrated into a single cluster named “Haein” (해인, 海印). This is the latest part of an […]| Blocks and Files
We came across Cy4Data Labs whose Cy4Secure software protects data in use, with no access performance loss and database-level encryption down to a single field or word. It offers: Cy4Data Labs was founded by CEO Lance Smith, ex-CEO at Primary Data and an SVP at SanDisk and COO at Fusion-io, and CMO Rick White ex-CMO at […]| Blocks and Files
Dell’s quarterly revenues showed a 19 percent jump to a record $29.8 billion in its second fiscal 2026 quarter, as server and networking revenues, fueled by AI demand, rose an astonishing 69 percent, beating the $29.5 billion high-point of its guidance Overall Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) revenues rose 44 percent to $16.8 billion, overtaking Client […]| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage knocked its revenue ball out of the quarterly results park, beating its guidance and upping its full year expectation. Revenues in its second fy2026 quarter, ended August 3, increased 13 percent year-on-year to $861 million with GAAP net income of $47 million, up 31 percent Y/Y. Product sales amounted to $446.3 million, up […]| Blocks and Files
Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.| Blocks and Files
E2 – Enterprise and Datacenter Device Form Factor E2 is one of the EDSFF set. This specification defines the mechanical attributes of the E2 form factor with the goal of supporting at least 64 NAND packages and fit vertically in standard 2U rack mounted host systems. It prioritizes high capacity and is ideal for high-capacity […]| Blocks and Files
New Zealand-based Nyriad has had a makeover, with the founders out, new chairman, new funding, new CEO, exec hires, and a relocation to the USA. Back in 2014 CEO Matthew Simmons and CTO Alex St John co-founded Nyriad and devised a different way to build a storage controller designed to cope with exabyte levels of […]| Blocks and Files
NetApp eked out one percent growth in its first fy2026 quarter but it won the number one all-flash array market share position for calendar Q1 2025. Revenues in the quarter ended on July 25, 2025 were $1.56 billion, with a GAAP profit of $233 million, down 6 percent Y/Y. The revenue was above the mid-point […]| Blocks and Files
AI Factory empowers developers to build reliable, sovereign AI platforms In an increasingly uncertain global economy, the race is on for AI innovation. But many enterprises still lack the tools to execute: Gartner estimates that by 2027, 60 percent of organizations will fail to realize the value of AI use cases due to data governance […]| Blocks and Files
Nutanix beat its revenue guidance with an 18 percent year-on-year jump to $653.3 million revenues for its final fy2025 quarter. GAAP net income rose enormously, turning the year-ago $126.1 million loss into a $38.7 million profit. Full fy2025 year revenues of $2.54 billion were also up 18 percent Y/Y and full year profits of $188.4 […]| Blocks and Files
New Zealand startup Novodisq demonstrated ultra high-capacity SSD storage at the FMS 2025 summit, showing an 11.5 PB 2RU blade server.| Blocks and Files
Sandisk has announced a 256 TB SSD at FMS 2025 that will ship in the first half of 2026.| Blocks and Files
Kioxia has announced the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door to a 200-plus petabyte rack and 5-rack, 1 exabyte configuration.| Blocks and Files
Solidigm has announced a 122 TB version of its D5-P5336 SSD on the same day that Phison announced a Pascari D205V SSD with 128 TB| Blocks and Files
SK hynix says it’s going to produce ultra-high-capacity, high-performance SSDs for AI servers by using its 321-layer 3D NAND in QLC format. SK hynix is beginning mass production of a 321-layer, QLC 2 Tb die, the world’s first implementation of more than 300 layers using QLC technology, with product shipping in the first half of […]| Blocks and Files
HPE’s Alletra array performance results have been revealed, with the top supported SAP HANA Node count rising from 64 for the clustered all-flash Nimble to 216 for the mid-range Alletra 6000, a 3.4x increase. The 6000’s supported node count is also, surprisingly, 2.25 times better than that of the high-end Alletra 9000’s 96. These numbers […]| Blocks and Files
Hitachi Vantara has beefed up its high-end storage line-up with the VSP 5000 series, which it claims is the world’s fastest enterprise array. The company can certainly claim bragging rights in IOPS terms but others perform better on latency and bandwidth. The obvious comparison is with Dell EMC’s PowerMax which has a higher latency (sub-200μs), […]| Blocks and Files
HPE’s Primera array, launched today, is an evolutionary upgrade of its 3PAR platform, with expanded InfoSight management and claimed Nimble array ease-of-use. Our sister publication The Register carries the announcement story here. On this page Blocks & Files tries to figure out the speeds and feeds. This is a bit of a headscratcher as HPE […]| Blocks and Files
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CRUD – an acronym standing for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. These four operations are the building blocks for storing data for systems and applications: Create: The insertion of new data records into a storage system. This might be adding a document, user account, uploading a photo, or placing an order. Read: The retrieval of existing […]| Blocks and Files
Adeptia that automates the handling of data exchanged between businesses using, for example, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) methods.| Blocks and Files
There are 21 storage industry startups worth a billion dollars or more – unicorns – according to a CB Insights newsletter. Update. Note on Coldago’s December 2022 storage unicorn list added at end of story. January 18, 2023. The newsletter lists 1,250 startup and private company tech unicorns as at Dec 31, 2022. We downloaded the list […]| Blocks and Files
Private equity as careful steward: Datacore's CEO thinks so| Blocks and Files
DataCore has announced Bolt, cloud-native storage for containers that supports block access using NVMe-over-Fabrics/TCP.| Blocks and Files
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage, Oracle supporting RoCE and Optane, Amazon Web Services partnering, technology patent awards and more, from ReRAM to data warehousing via edge computing right out to DNA-based […]| Blocks and Files
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Open source Kubernetes-focused startup MayaData has undergone a CEO change as — this is almost laughable — the Chief Transformation Officer transforms the CEO who hired him out of the job and himself into it. Coincidentally, this information comes out as Kubernetes startup Diamanta’s CEO change news broke. It’s all-change in Kubernetes startup CEO land. […]| Blocks and Files
Open source developer MayaData has announced Kubera; a product for the operational management of Kubernetes. Kubernetes came into being at Google because managing the development, deployment and de-commissioning if containers was excessively complex for developers. Now MayaData has launched Kubera because managing Kubernetes has become too complex. Murat Karslioglu, Head of Product at MayaData, issued […]| Blocks and Files
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Caringo, an object storage software supplier, has launched a set of appliances that run a new version of its Swarm software. Swarm 11.1 includes built-in content management, search and metadata management. It has improved S3 compliance, faster software performance, email and Slack alerting and has integrate Elasticsearch 6. Caringo claims Swarm Server Appliances (SSA) start […]| Blocks and Files
Developer of container-attached storage for Kubernetes MayaData has been given access to DataCore technology while DataCore gets a piece of MayaData’s action, in a funding-related dance valued at $26m. Evan Powell, co-founder of MayaData and CEO, said: “We are very excited to be working with DataCore and Insight Partners to deliver data agility to users […]| Blocks and Files
DataCore has added file and object storage to its software-defined storage portfolio. vFiLO inherits block-oriented SANsymphony’s scale-out, tiering and parallel IO architecture, and the ability to virtualize third-party file and object stores. vFiLO can be used alongside SANsymphony or independently. It supports NFS (v3, v4.2), SMB (v2, v3) and the S3 protocol inside a global […]| Blocks and Files
Caringo is speeding up large video transfers with Swarm 11, an update for its video-centric object storage platform. Swarm 11 integrates with on-demand workflows and provides: Large file bulk upload in the content UI, Partial File Restore (video clipping), File sharing, Backup to any Amazon S3 region/device. Any Swarm domain or an entire cluster can […]| Blocks and Files
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Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says most NoSQL databases scan every record for a query, even if most are irrelevant. Aerospike’s approach pushes conditional logic into the index itself, so only relevant […]| Blocks and Files
Blocks & Files is a storage news, information and analysis site covering storage media, devices from drives through arrays to server-based storage, cloud storage, networking and protocols, data management, suppliers and standards. We publish news, views, opinions and analysis of storage industry events and developments, aiming to keep storage users, developers, consultants, marketeers, salespeople, support staff, analysts and everyone else involved in IT storage up to date with what’s going...| Blocks and Files
Research house GigaOm’s 2025 Object Storage Radar report identifies 22 suppliers, up from last year’s 18, with some dramatic changes in their status as the market shifts towards products with generic market appeal. Analyst Whit Walters says; “The key characteristics of enterprise object stores have changed, with more attention paid to performance, ease of deployment, […]| Blocks and Files
On the second day of Dell Technologies World, the company announced chatbots, zero trust security, edge site offerings, and more.| Blocks and Files
VAST Data says its all-QLC flash file storage has been certified as an Nvidia SuperPOD data store.| Blocks and Files
HPE has added block storage and file storage services to GreenLake, with the file service being based on resold VAST Data software.| Blocks and Files
Startup Pinecone has hired former Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold as president and COO after 15 months as an active advisor and board member.| Blocks and Files
Single QLC flash tier storage upstart VAST Data is making a song and dance about its biggest software release ever, saying it will aid VAST’s larger data platform agenda. A VAST blog by CMO Jeff Denworth introduces and reviews combined v4.6 and v4.7 VAST software releases and promises more instalments over the next five weeks. […]| Blocks and Files
Comments by VAST Data co-founders CEO Renen Hallak and CMO Jeff Denworth suggest the firm is going to develop data infrastructure software.| Blocks and Files
