Iceotope Releases Study with Meta on Efficiency of Immersion Liquid Cooling for High Density Storage

Sheffield, UK — Iceotope, the immersion cooling company, announces a new study with Meta that the companies say confirms the effectiveness of chassis-level liquid cooling technology to meet the cooling requirements of high-density storage disks utilised by hyperscale data centre service providers. The recently published study with Meta suggests the advantages of improved thermal management, […]

DDN Announces Expanded Services Portfolio

CHATSWORTH, Calif., – Nov. 9, 2022 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions company, is growing its services offerings with embedded onsite professionals and managed services to support in-house technology teams. DDN said it has technologists that can serve as Storage Account Managers, Technical Account Managers and Storage Analysts, and already has […]

Qumulo Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

October 28, 2022 — SEATTLE — Qumulo, a petabyte-scale data storage company, today announced its position as a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for the fifth consecutive year. Gartner, Inc. positioned Qumulo in the leaders quadrant based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute. […]

DNA-based Storage and Compute Startup CATALOG to Collaborate with Seagate

Sept. 8, 2022, Boston – Catalog Technologies, Inc. ( CATALOG ), a developer of automated DNA-based digital data storage and computation, is collaborating with storage solutions company Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX) on several initiatives to advance scalable and automated DNA-based storage and computation platforms, including making DNA-based platforms up to 1000 times smaller. The collaboration […]

Rice Team Wins $1.5 NSF Award for Biomolecule-based Data Storage

Rice University synthetic biologists have won a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to modify living cells to act as memory-storage devices, the university announced today. NSF issued the award for research by principal investigator Jonathan Silberg, the Stewart Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, and his colleagues to make the equivalent of read-write-erase […]

The Evolution of HPC Storage: More Choices Yields More Decisions

[SPONSORED CONTENT] The past few years have brought many changes into the HPC storage world, both with technology like non-volatile memory express (NVMe) or persistent memory, and the growth of software defined storage solutions. Gone are the days when IBM Spectrum Scale (secretly, we know we all still call it GPFS) or Lustre were the only real choices in the market. In retrospect, the choice was easy: you picked one of the two and away you went.  And nobody ever wondered if they made the right choice.   

At ISC: Panasas Spotlights New Products for High Performance HPC/AI and Enterprise Storage

At ISC 2022, we caught up with Panasas Chief Operating Officer Brian Peterson, who caught us up on the high performance storage company’s latest product and market developments. Peterson, who joined Panasas last November, said today’s key trend in the high-performance storage category is that, while it has traditionally been dominated by the high-end enterprise […]

Pure Storage Introduces FlashBlade//S for Unstructured Data and Application Growth

Los Angeles – June 8, 2022 — Today at Pure//Accelerate techfest22, data storage technology and services company Pure Storage announced the FlashBlade//S family of products with what the company described as a new modular architecture built on  co-designed hardware and software. “The new platform leverages a nearly unlimited scalable metadata architecture, offering more than double […]

Qumulo Launches ‘Cloud Now’ Program with 1 Free Petabyte of Storage

SEATTLE – Apr. 25, 2022 – Qumulo, a high performance data storage and management company, today unveiled “Cloud Now,” a new program that offers cloud builders the ability to create and test up to one petabyte (PB) of multi-cloud file storage at no cost*. As the only multi-cloud file platform able to run massive data […]

@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going

http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/021@HPCpodcas_Storage-with-Gary-Grider_20220420.mp3 Shahin and I are in violent agreement: if you’re interested in high performance storage, if major milestone in the development of HPC storage technology over the last 30-plus years interests you, if you want a peek at future forward leaps in HPC storage technology, then this is an @HPCpodcast episode for you. Our special […]