SUNNYVALE, Calif.– June 8, 2021 —Panasas, a maker of high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, announced an expansion of its 13-year relationship with the University of Minnesota’s Supercomputing Institute (MSI) to supply a new generation of parallel storage systems. As its researchers push further into the fields of bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, MSI plans […]
Univ. of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Expands Research Capability, Adds 10PB of Panasas Storage
June 8, 2021 by
The New Frontier for Data Management: Edge-Core-Cloud
June 5, 2021 by
By Eric Bassier, Quantum Corp. With the proliferation of IoT devices, sensors and robots spanning industries such as autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, surveillance, smart cities and healthcare, edge computing is creating vast amounts of unstructured data that will, at some point in its lifecycle, need to be centralized at the core or moved to the cloud. […]
Academia Sinica Chooses Infortrend Storage for HPC Application
June 1, 2021 by
TAIPEI, June 1, 2021 — Infortrend Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495), the enterprise storage provider, enabled Academia Sinica with enterprise SAN/NAS unified storage EonStor GS 3000 Gen2 to provide high performance infrastructure for conducting research HPC. Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s most preeminent academic institution, was founded in 1928 to undertake scholarly research in various fields, including mathematical, physical, and […]
ScaleFlux Claims Flash Storage <1¢/Gigabyte/ Year with Micron QLC
May 26, 2021 by
SAN JOSE – May 26, 2021 – ScaleFlux, Inc., maker of computational storage at scale, today announced it has expanded its Computational Storage Drive (CSD) portfolio to include quad-level cell (QLC) NAND Flash storage from Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU). These new QLC drives — with integrated compression — are designed to improve the affordability […]
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ NVMe-based Software-Defined Storage for the Edge
May 7, 2021 by
London – SoftIron Ltd., a data center solutions company, has announced their newest Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance+. Leveraging the AMD EPYC 3000 processor, the new Performance+ family debuts the company’s first x86 CPU and NVMe SSD-based designs to be introduced in its HyperDrive series of storage appliances. With the initial appliances in […]
VAST Data: $83M in Series D Funding
May 7, 2021 by
New York – VAST Data, the storage software company, today announced $83 million in Series D funding, led by Tiger Global Management, at a post-money valuation of $3.7 billion – a tripling of the company’s valuation since April 2020. The round features strong participation from NVIDIA and several other existing investors, and is driven by […]
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ Family
May 4, 2021 by
London – May 4, 2021 – SoftIron Ltd., maker of purpose-built data center solutions, today announced the introduction of their Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance+. Leveraging the AMD EPYC 3000 processor, the new Performance+ family debuts the company’s first x86 CPU and NVMe SSD-based designs to be introduced in its HyperDrive series of […]
IBM Launches Storage for Data Management across Hybrid Clouds
April 27, 2021 by
IBM has announced innovations across its storage product line designed to improve management of data across complex hybrid cloud environments with the goal of improving data availability and resilience. The company announced plans to launch container-native software defined storage (SDS), IBM Spectrum Fusion, in the second half of 2021 designed to combine IBM’s parallel file system […]
Scality and HPE Launch Object Storage Software for Kubernetes
April 27, 2021 by
SAN FRANCISCO – April 27, 2021 – Scality today introduced ARTESCA, a lightweight, enterprise-grade, cloud-native object storage solution designed for the Kubernetes era. Supported on HPE all-flash and hybrid data storage servers, ARTESCA addresses use cases from the edge to the core to the cloud, with emphasis on cloud-native, AI/ML, big data analytics and in-memory […]
Continuing Arecibo’s Legacy – A Partnership to Save Telescope Data at TACC
April 21, 2021 by
Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope’s collapse – due to various hurricanes and other natural disasters – in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo’s data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the “golden copy” of the telescope’s data — the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s. Now, a new partnership will make sure that about 3PB of telescope data is securely backed up off-site and made accessible to astronomers….
