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
Profile. IBM mainframe data access company VirtualZ Computing has a native American heritage woven into its backstory which is connected to two of its founders: CEO Jeanne Glass and CTO Vince Re. VirtualZ, founded in Minneapolis in 2018, has two products: Lozen, which provides real-time, read-write, peer-to-peer, access to IBM z mainframe data; and PropelZ, […]| Blocks and Files
Interview: An interview with Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo started by discussing AIOps and its Enterprise Data Cloud’s control plane and finished with the concept of Pure as a dataset management company. It is developing a full stack of dataset management features and function layered on top of its storage arrays and their software. Part […]| Blocks and Files
We had the opportunity to interview Jason hardy, Hitachi Vantara’s CTO for AI, and the conversation started by looking at VSP One and disaggregation and ended up talking about AI agent-infused robots. Physical AI. Read on to see how we got there. Blocks and Files: Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One storage line is a classic controllers-integrated-with-storage-shelves […]| Blocks and Files
Deduplicating backup target appliance supplier ExaGrid has passed 4,800 customers and says it’s the largest independent backup storage provider behind the big primary storage vendors, meaning Dell, HPE, NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, Huawei, and IBM. ExaGrid’s appliances are disk drive-based and ingest backup data into a so-called landing zone where it is kept in a raw […]| Blocks and Files
Restructuring Quantum Corp has hired Geoff Barrall away from Index Engines to be its Chief Product officer, a new position, to lead product strategy, innovation, and engineering direction. The company is now in a more stable position, following its debt restructuring and exec team refreshment. It’s also changed its external auditors, following a stream of […]| Blocks and Files
Veeam, the world’s largest data protection and cyber-resilience supplier, could be buying Securiti for around $1.8 billion, Bloomberg reports. Securiti was started up in 2017, is based in San Jose, and operates in the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) space with offerings encompassing data discovery, security, governance, and compliance. It aims to help organizations adopting […]| Blocks and Files
Opinion: Any organization that has not been hit by ransomware thinks, by default, that its defenses are good. If internal voices are raised, saying it needs to upgrade its defenses, supporters balk at the costs involved and assume that, since we haven’t been hit yet, we must be OK. They realize that many other organizations […]| Blocks and Files
NAKIVO has announced v11.1 of its Backup & Replication software and so we thought it would be. a good time to take a look at the company. It was started up in 2012 in the USA by CEO Bruce Talley and six others: VP Product Management Sergei Serdyuk, QA engineer and product manager Veniamin Simonov, […]| Blocks and Files
UK-based AI data storage firm PEAK:AIO has secured more than $6.8 million in seed funding to accelerate product development, expand its team, and forge partnerships for global growth. The software-defined all-flash storage company was founded in 2021. In March, it announced a 2RU DataServer, a pNFS NAS system based on a Dell server with Solidigm […]| Blocks and Files
Cloud storage supplier Wasabi has raised $32.5 million and set up AI data storage facilities with export to external GPU compute. Wasabi Technologies started out providing S3-compatible public cloud object storage as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service supplier (IaaS). Now it has file (NAS), video surveillance and video media storage offers. Basically, it resells disk drive space for […]| Blocks and Files
Graph database supplier Neo4j is offering its Aura Agent to help customers build and deploy agents on their own data in minutes, an MCP Server to add graph-powered memory and reasoning into existing AI applications, and a $100 million investment in GenAI-native startups to increase its technology’s take-up. Up until now, the main data source […]| Blocks and Files
Data protector Acronis announced GA of True Image 2026 with built-in patch management for Windows and a strengthened security engine with AI-based threat detection, anti-ransomware, and malware scanning. Acronis claims it is the first consumer software to proactively safeguard against emerging cyberthreats and provide identity protection, fast backup, easy recovery, and advanced cyber protection in […]| Blocks and Files
Commvault’s AWS cloud-app-protecting subsidiary Clumio is protecting Iceberg data in AWS while MinIO is adding Iceberg table support to its AIStor object storage software. Open source Apache Iceberg operates as a data lakehouse software layer above storage systems like Parquet, ORC, and Avro, and cloud object stores such as AWS S3, Azure Blob, and Google […]| Blocks and Files
A Greek geospatial data company is storing its data on a Cubbit decentralized storage cloud for cash and sovereignty reasons. Cubbit’s decentralized storage is a web of interconnected individual private organizations’ datacenters with spare storage capacity, managed through its DS3 Composer software. These sites or nodes provide S3-compatible storage with data split into fragments, encrypted […]| Blocks and Files
BestBrokers has collated data from Pitchbook, Crunchbase and more, and provided a table of the biggest funding rounds in AI in September 2025: It also has a graphic showing what it believes to be the largest AI funding rounds in the whole of 2025 so far: … Databricks launched Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity to help […]| Blocks and Files
SingleStore is updating its unified database to handle natural language queries by converting them into SQL – and it’s building its own AI assistant to boot. SingleStore provides the real-time transactional and analytic SingleStoreDB database, a distributed, relational SQL database with operational, analytical, and vector data support. It is integrated with Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, BigQuery, […]| Blocks and Files
Hitachi Vantara is trying to attract wannabe VMware leavers by providing vSAN replacement with VSP One and vSphere with Red Hat OpenShift. The background to this is, of course, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and its subsequent VMware licensing changes. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (RHOSV) uses the open source KubeVirt control plane to integrate Kubernetes container orchestration […]| Blocks and Files
Infinidat has refreshed its fourth-generation (G4) InfiniBox arrays with larger drives, more slots, faster internal networking, a smaller all-flash model, S3 protocol support, QLC flash, and a new capacity-upgrade scheme. The InfiniBox arrays are high-end and scale-up storage array products competing with Dell PowerMax, Hitachi Vantara VSP and IBM DS8000 systems. Their unique features include […]| Blocks and Files
Cloudian has launched a HyperScale AI Data Platform (AIDP), with its HyperStore S3-compatible object storage being the datastore for AI models and agents running on Nvidia GPU hardware and software. HyperScale AIDP is built on the Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU in line with Nvidia’s AI Data Platform reference design. HyperStore supports […]| Blocks and Files
Don’t manage arrays, manage your data instead Most people believe they are good drivers. Yet driving remains one of the most dangerous things we do every day. Cars operate in silos, each requiring constant maintenance, and outcomes depend entirely on human judgment. Mistakes are inevitable, and the consequences can be severe. Now imagine a different […]| Blocks and Files
Two years ago we reviewed VirtualZ with its Lozen IBM mainframe data access and PropelZ mainframe data extract products. Now it has two more, FlowZ and Zaac, and is talking about AI and mainframe data. It’s time for another look. Mainframes hold vast amounts of highly-valued data, some of which needs contributing to an organization’s […]| Blocks and Files
NetApp has announced new hardware, software, and partner systems and features to meet AI and cybersecurity needs.| Blocks and Files
NetApp has doubled down on its all-flash systems with a new SAN array, the ASA A-Series, and a new StorageGRID object storage system.| Blocks and Files
NetApp has organized its E-Series hardware with BeeGFS software to be certified with Nvidia's SuperPod AI powerhouse.| Blocks and Files
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When VAST Data bought Red Stapler earlier this month, it acqua-hired a company staffed entirely by NetApp leavers – just 4 months after they quit NetApp’s Iceland operation, and gained a cross-public cloud control plane architecture to help provide its AI OS as a public cloud service. Had the six people simply left NetApp and […]| Blocks and Files
Acronis will incorporate Seagate’s S3-compatible Lyve Cloud Object Storage into its Acronos Archival Storage offering to help enable MSPs to deliver services with more cost-effective, and compliant storage. Learn more here. … China’s Biwin has introduced a prorietary MicroSSD card-like Mini SSD product, 15.0 mm × 17.0 mm × 1.4 mm in size, supporting PCIe gen […]| Blocks and Files
Interview. AI searches that query any part of an organization’s data will need to look at structured as well as unstructured data, and the structured data won’t just be relational databases, where SQL rules. There are graph databases that store relationships between entities. The entries in a graph database can’t be vectorized, ruling out GenAI […]| Blocks and Files
Dell is claiming the number one position in the all-flash array (AFA) market, citing IDC numbers. Yet, just last month, NetApp claimed it led the AFA market. NetApp said in August, when reporting its first quarter fiscal 2026 results (ended July 25, 2025), that it “achieved the #1 market share position in all-flash storage for […]| Blocks and Files
SaaS data protector Druva is providing new AI agents that can query aggregated backup data in real time to get summaries of risks, anomalies, and trends, and speed and simplify backup data management. It says that historically, “backup intelligence has been limited to static dashboards and siloed reports.” In many environments today, it says, teams […]| Blocks and Files
Scale-out filer Qumulo has partnered with Cisco to run its Unified Data Platform on UCS servers and integrate Splunk observability for streaming and cleaning machine data. The two say that this deal “enables the consolidation of billions of files and petabytes to exabytes of unstructured data into a single, globally consistent network-attached namespace,” which “eliminates […]| Blocks and Files
Nvidia is buying GPU cluster interconnector and server memory offload appliance developer Enfabrica in a deal valued at more than $900 million. Multiple sources, such as CNBC and Reuters, are reporting this deal, with Nvidia acquiring Enfabrica, its team, and its intellectual property in a cash and stock deal. Enfabrica was founded in 2019 – […]| Blocks and Files
The rise in data sovereignty requirements and risks mean that country, regional and global organizations need to be aware that they they could face revenue loss, financial penalties, and reputationally damaging loss of trust if they break data sovereignty regulations. Pure Storage has run a study with academics from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) […]| Blocks and Files
Elastio’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server embeds agentless ransomware detection and backup validation directly into AWS workflows, developer tooling, and AI assistants, with claimed zero-day detection capability. The company was founded in 2020 by CEO Najaf Husain and CRO Todd Frederick to combat zero-day ransomware threats that evade traditional defenses by cloud-native SW running agentless […]| Blocks and Files
Cohesity announced five new cyber-resilience capabilities covering the top 3 public clouds, identity, AI-native data security, data sovereignty and its Gaia AI-based knowledge discovery assistant. It declares there are five steps needed to boost cyber-resilience; protect all data, ensure data is always recoverable, detect and investigate threats, practice application resilience, and optimize data risk posture. […]| Blocks and Files
Unified database startup SingleStore has been bought by private equity house Vector Capital Management instead of raising more cash or running an IPO. SingleStore provides a combined transactional, analytical, and vector database that can run in memory, supports external storage, operates with low latency on-premises or in the public cloud, and has a growing AI […]| Blocks and Files
Rubrik has done a deal with CrowdStrike and its Next-Gen Identity Security so that customers can reverse malicious identity changes and restore identity providers back to a safe state. Rubrik has already done a deal with CrowdStrike to send data to its malware-detecting Falcon XDR (Extended Detection and Response) and look for threats in Rubrik […]| Blocks and Files
HyperBUNKER provides a backup of backups, and air-gapped, offline, multiple immutable data copies as a last resort for solidly dependable critical data recovery. Data is written using data diode technology to a target device operated by PLCs (programmable logic controllers). It has its own backup software for file storage and is thus an addition to […]| Blocks and Files
VergeIO is using Cirrus Data mobility software to convince clients to switch away from other hypervisor environments, saying it wants to end infrastructure sprawl by migrating them to its own platform. VergeOS is the company’s software to provide a hyperconverged datacenter, integrating virtualization, storage, networking, and AI into a single operating system. It calls this […]| Blocks and Files
We have enough silo-based problems. Deduplication shouldn’t be another. Deduplication is everywhere in modern datacenters. Storage arrays, backup systems, and WAN replication tools all include it as a standard feature. This ubiquity creates a problem. Deduplication is seen as a commodity feature; standard, expected, and reduced to a simple capacity savings calculation. Vendors check the […]| Blocks and Files
Data protector Catalogic Software announced DPX 4.13, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery offering with advancements including automated backup integrity checks, proactive malware scans, restore point selection, seamless network reconfiguration, enhanced orchestrated disaster recovery for VMware for faster disaster recovery and improved RTO/RPO. GuardMode now scans agentless VMware and block-level backup jobs […]| Blocks and Files
Kioxia is working with Nvidia to build extremely fast AI SSDs to augment high-bandwidth memory (HBM) by being directly connected to GPUs, with 2027 availability. As reported by Japan’s Nikkei, Koichi Fukuda, chief engineer of Kioxia’s SSD application technology division, presented at an AI market technology briefing. He said Kioxia, at the request of Nvidia, was […]| Blocks and Files
HPE’s quarterly revenues reached a record $9.1 billion as AI server sales increased sharply, along with newly-acquired Juniper pushing the networking numbers up. Alletra storage sales increased by triple digits. There was a 19 percent year-on-year revenue rise in the third fiscal 2025 quarter ended July 31, 2025, with a GAAP profit of $288 million, 44.3 percent […]| Blocks and Files
GPU frenzy feeding components market too, Hynix preps HBM4, gets ZUF, MinIO preps pods, and OWC stages motion picture RAID| Blocks and Files
Analysis: NetApp posted record revenue this quarter, helped by all-flash array sales and public cloud storage demand. In the fourth fiscal 2025 quarter ended April 25, NetApp reported record revenues of $1.73 billion, up 4 percent on the year. There was a $340 million profit (GAAP net income), 16.8 percent more than a year ago. […]| Blocks and Files
Huawei is reportedly about to launch an AI SSD that will work with its Unified Cache Manager software to offload key-value cache data.| Blocks and Files
SK Hynix will complete its $9 billion takeover of Intel’s NAND memory business in the coming weeks, setting the seal on the stumbling US giant’s exit from the flash business. The news emerged as US president Donald Trump pontificated on the fate of Intel, declaring that its CEOs post Andy Grove (who vacated the role […]| Blocks and Files
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Synthetic data generated by LLMs could provide a way to head off an impending data crunch, at least when it comes to evaluating RAG systems, a team of Dutch researchers has shown. But the prospect of a tsunami of LLM generated info means enterprises will have to rethink how their data management systems and skill […]| Blocks and Files
Trendforce says AI rollouts, manufacturing concerns, and rise of Chinese player mean supply mismatches and market uncertainty| Blocks and Files
V-Tree – a tree-like structure used for storing metadata in VAST Data’s universal file system. This has a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which is a byte-granular, thin-provisioned, sharded, and has an infinitely-scalable global namespace. It involves the compute nodes being responsible for so-called element stores. These element stores use V-tree metadata structures, 7-layers deep […]| Blocks and Files
Samsung, currently on its ninth-generation 3D NAND with 286 layers, has 400-layer technology in development.| 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nasuni customers can now integrate their Nasuni data stores and workflows with customer’s customized Copilot assistants.| Blocks and Files
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
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
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
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
Adeptia that automates the handling of data exchanged between businesses using, for example, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) methods.| Blocks and Files