Research Note: NVIDIA AI Storage Certifications & AI Data Platform
At its annual GTC event in San Jose, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, including the new NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, to include enterprise storage certification to help streamline AI factory deployments.
Research Note: HPE Storage Enhancements for AI
At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a slew of new storage capabilities, including a new unified data layer. These capabilities are designed to accelerate AI adoption by integrating structured and unstructured data across multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments.
Research Note: VDURA V5000 All-Flash AI Storage Appliance
VDURA recently announced its new V5000 All-Flash Appliance, a high-performance storage solution engineered for AI and high-performance computing workloads. The system integrates with the VDURA V11 Data Platform for a combination of high throughput, low-latency access, and seamless scalability.
Research Note: Pure Storage FlashBlade//EXA
Pure Storage recently announced the launch of its new FlashBlade//EXA, a high-performance storage platform designed for AI and HPC workloads. FlashBlade//EXA extends the company’s Purity operating environment and DirectFlash technology to provide extreme performance, scalability, and metadata management that addresses the increasing demands of AI-driven applications.
Research Note: IBM FlashSystem C200 High-Capacity Flash Archive
IBM recently announced its FlashSystem C200, a new storage platform integrating 46 TB QLC NAND drives to provide an archive tier within a FlashSystem grid. The C200 expands IBM’s FlashSystem portfolio with a high-density flash solution that competes with traditional nearline HDD storage.
IBM claims the C200 provides flash-like performance with QLC-level economics, enhanced endurance, and seamless grid integration.
Research Note: WEKA & HPE Set SpecStorage Records
WEKA and HPE recently announced record-breaking results across all five benchmark workloads in the SPECstorage Solution 2020 suite. The results were achieved using the WEKA Data Platform on the HPE Alletra Storage Server 4110, powered by Intel Xeon processors.
The results show the system’s ability to handle data-intensive workloads, including AI, genomics, software development, and video analytics, with high efficiency and low latency.
Research Note: NetApp’s New ASA + Realtime Malware Detection for Block Storage
NetApp announced a major expansion of its all-flash SAN (ASA) product line while also introducing new ransomware protection capabilities advancements.
Research Note: Pure Storage Revamps Reseller Partner Program
Pure Storage recently announced an update to its Reseller Partner Program, introducing new incentives, training, and automation capabilities to drive greater partner engagement and accelerate the adoption of all-flash solutions.
Infrastructure News Roundup: January 2025
January isn’t usually a big month for announcements related to enterprise infrastructure, but then this isn’t a normal January. Let’s look at what happened.
Research Note: Kioxia’s Open Source AiSAQ ANN Search
Today, Kioxia announced the open-source release of All-in-Storage ANNS with Product Quantization (AiSAQ), an approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) technology optimized for SSD-based storage. AiSAQ enables large-scale retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads by offloading vector data from DRAM to SSDs, significantly reducing memory requirements.
Research Note: Komprise PII Protection Capabilities
Komprise recently introduced new capabilities in its Smart Data Workflow Manager, enhancing its ability to detect and protect personally identifiable information (PII) within unstructured data environments.
The enhanced features are currently in early access and are expected to be generally available by the end of Q1 2025 as part of the Komprise Intelligent Data Management Platform.
Research Note: DeepSeek’s Impact on IT Infrastructure Market
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek recently introduced an AI model, DeepSeek-R1l that the company claims that it matches or surpasses models from industry. The move created significant buzz in the AI industry. Though the claims remain unverified, the potential to democratize AI training and fundamentally alter industry dynamics is clear.
Research Note: Lenovo to Acquire Infinidat, Grow into High-End Storage
In a surprise move, Lenovo has announced its intention to acquire Infinidat, a privately held enterprise storage company specializing in scalable, high-performance, and cyber-resilient storage solutions.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. This acquisition marks Lenovo’s strategic entry into the high-end enterprise storage market, complementing its existing portfolio, which primarily focuses on entry and mid-range storage solutions.
The deal is expected to close sometime in 2H calendar 2025.
Research Note: Dell AI Products & Services Updates
Dell Technologies has made significant additions to its AI portfolio with its recent announcements at SC24 and Microsoft Ignite 2024 in November. The announcements span infrastructure, ecosystem partnerships, and professional services, targeting accelerated AI adoption, operational efficiency, and sustainability in enterprise environments.
Quick Take: AWS re:Invent AI Services & Infrastructure Announcement Wrap-Up
AWS has made close to 50 announcements in the first 2 days of re:Invent. This blog takes a look at the most interesting AI services & infrastructure related ones.
Quick Take: AWS re:Invent Day 1
AWS unveiled a range of new features and services, reflecting its continued focus on innovation across generative AI, compute, and storage. These announcements include enhancements to Amazon Bedrock for improved testing and data integration, new capabilities for the generative AI assistant Amazon Q, high-performance storage-optimized EC2 instances, and advanced storage solutions like intelligent tiering and a dedicated data transfer terminal
Research Note: Hammerspace Global Data Platform v5.1 with Tier 0
Hammerspace recently announced the version 5.1 release of its Hammerspace Global Data Platform. The flagship feature of the release its new Tier 0 storage capability, which takes unused local NVMe storage on a GPU server and uses it as part of the global shared filesystem. This provides higher-performance storage for the GPU server than can be delivered from remote storage nodes – ideal for AI and GPU-centric workloads.
IT Infrastructure Round-Up: Emerging Trends in Infrastructure and Connectivity (Nov 2024)
November was a busy month of announcements in infrastructure and connectivity, revealing a convergence of innovation to meet the stringent demands of AI-driven workloads, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Research Note: Minio AIStor Object Storage
MinIO recently introduced AIStor, its new object storage solution designed for AI/ML workloads. AIStor leverages insights from large-scale customer environments, some exceeding 1 EiB of data, to address the unique challenges of managing and scaling data infrastructure for AI applications.
SC24: Shaping the Future of IT with High-Performance Computing and AI
Last week’s Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) conference in Atlanta brought together IT leaders, researchers, and industry innovators to unveil advancements in HPC and AI, with even a little quantum computing thrown in.
Research Note: HPE Alletra Object Storage
At its recent HPE Discover Barcelona event, HPE announced its new Alletra Storage MP X10000, an object storage platform integrated with its HPE GreenLake cloud. This release introduces a multi-protocol, software-defined architecture consolidating block, file, and object storage into a single, cloud-managed system.
Research Brief: Cloudian Tackles AI Storage Complexity with NVIDIA GPUDirect for Object Storage
Cloudian’s new HyperStore with NVIDIA GPUDirect for Object Storage is a significant step forward in high-performance data management. The seamless integration of GPUDirect with HyperStore allows users to benefit from Cloudian’s scalability and ease of use while enabling a dedicated high-performance data path for GPU workloads.
Research Note: Pure Storage FlashArray//C20
Pure Storage has expanded its FlashArray//C, announcing its new FlashArray//C20 that provides high-density, capacity-optimized all-flash storage for SMB, ROBO, and workloads that require high availability but not ultra-low latency.
Lightbits Labs Certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Lightbit Labs announced that it’s achieved certification on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), setting a new standard in high-performance, cost-effective block storage for enterprises with latency-sensitive, IO-intensive workloads. The certification enables OCI customers to leverage Lightbits’ cloud-native storage solution to manage Kubernetes persistent volumes for performance-driven applications, with a strong focus on security and cost efficiency.
Research Note: Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Pure Storage recently launched its new Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a fully managed block-storage-as-a-service offering integrated directly into the Azure portal as an Azure Native ISV Service. This solution addresses the storage and scalability requirements of enterprise VMware workloads transitioning to the cloud, specifically those needing high storage capacity relative to compute.
Research Note: WEKA’s New WEKApod Nitro & Extreme
WEKA this week expanded its footprint in the AI data infrastructure space with the release of two new data platform appliances designed to meet diverse AI deployment needs.
The new products, WEKApod Nitro and WEKApod Prime, are WEKA’s latest offerings for high-performance data solutions that support accelerated AI model training, high-throughput workloads, and enterprise AI demands. The new solutions address the rapid growth of generative AI, LLMs, and RAG and fine-tuning pipelines across industries.
OCP Global Summit 2024: Key Announcements
At the recent OCP Global Summit 2024, the organization unveiled several major initiatives highlighting OCP’s commitment to driving innovation and fostering collaboration in the tech ecosystem. This includes expanding its AI Strategic Initiative with contributions from NVIDIA and Meta, new alliances for sustainability and standardization, and the launch of an open chiplet marketplace.
Research Note: Dell AI Portfolio Updates
Dell Technologies made significant strides in AI infrastructure with its Integrated Rack 7000 (IR7000) launch and associated platforms for AI and HPC. The announcements introduce enhancements in computing density, power efficiency, and data management, catering specifically to AI workloads.
Research Note: VAST Data’s New AI Updates & Partnerships
VAST made a wide-ranging set of AI-focused announcements that extend it’s already impressive feature set to directly address the needs of enterprise AI. Beyond the new features, VAST also highlighted new strategic relationships and a new user community that help bring VAST technology into the enterprise.
Research Note: Pure Storage Sept’24 Announcements
At its recent Pure Accelerate customer event in the the UK, Pure Storage announced several innovations and enhancements to its portfolio. The new capabilities focus on real-time enterprise file services, virtualization, and financial flexibility.
Research Note: NetApp’s New AI Vision
At its recent Insight customer event, NetApp shared its vision for how its solutions will evolve to address these challenges. NetApp’s approach combines its existing ONTAP-based products with a new disaggregated architecture and new data manipulation capabilities that promise to deliver the efficiencies demanded by enterprise AI.
Research Note: NetApp New ASA A-Series & FAS Updates
At its recent Insight customer event, NetApp announced its new SAN-optimized ASA A-Series all-flash storage solutions. It also unveiled updates to its popular FAS hybrid-flash systems, the new FAS70 and FAS90 solutions.
In Conversation: NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure
Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to talk with NetApp CMO Gabie Boko and NetApp VP of Product Marketing Jeff Baxter in a wide-ranging conversation about the power of data infrastructure, which extends well beyond simple enterprise storage.
As NetApp Insight, its premier customer event, kicks off this week in Las Vegas, I thought we’d revisit the discussion, as it provides nice context for what the company is expected to announce this week.
Research Note: NetApp & AWS Expand Strategic Collaboration Agreement
NetApp recently announced the expansion of its long-standing partnership with Amazon Web Services. The new Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) strengthens the relationship between the two companies, paving the way for enhanced generative AI capabilities and streamlined CloudOps for joint customers.
Research Note: The Hammerspace Appliance
Hammerspace recently expanded its offerings by introducing a new line of appliances. Delivering Hammerspace’s data management technology as an appliance simplifies deployment and streamlines the process of purchasing and configuring its solutions.
Research Note: IBM DS8000 Mainframe Storage
IBM introduced its tenth-generation DS8000 mainframe storage, designed to store more data and access it faster. The new lineup includes the DS8A10 entry-level product and the larger DS8A50, which succeed previous models like the DS8910F, DS8950F, and DS8980F.
Research Note: HPE Q3 FY2024 Earnings
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) delivered a strong Q3 FY2024 earnings report, beating Wall Street estimates with its $7.7 billion in net revenue, up 10% year over year and exceeding guidance. The company saw growth across AI systems, hybrid cloud, and networking.
Research Note: Dell Q2 FY2025 Data Center Earnings
Dell Technologies’ latest earnings report paints a picture of a company amid a transformative shift, fueled by increasing demand for AI-driven solutions. In its second quarter of fiscal 2025, Dell delivered strong revenue growth, underscored by the rapid expansion of its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and a notable surge in AI server sales.
Quick Take: NetApp Q1 FY’25 Earnings
NetApp reported strong financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2025. The company continues to demonstrate resilience and growth despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties, leveraging its innovative solutions in flash storage, cloud services, and AI to drive revenue growth and enhance market share.
Cerabyte Expands to the USA with Innovative Data Storage Technology
Cerabyte, a start-up focused on advancing ceramic-based long-term archival storage solutions, announced its expansion into the United States with its unique, accessible permanent data storage technology.
Quick Take: Quantum FQ1’2025 Earnings
Hard Disk Drive manufacturer Quantum announced its FQ1 2025 earnings, beating Wall Street estimates on earnings and missing slightly on revenue. The earnings reflect both the challenges and opportunities the company faces as it continues its strategic transformation.
Research Note: Western Digital FQ4 2024 Earnings
Western Digital Corporation (WDC) reported strong financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2024, highlighting robust performance across its product segments and strategic advancements in the storage market, mainly driven by AI data demands.
Research Report: Solving AI Data Pipeline Inefficiencies, the VAST Data Way
While AI is foundational to the next wave of digital transformation, traditional data and storage infrastructure -even many parallel file systems- isn’t prepared for the demands required to support today’s AI lifecycle, which places unprecedented demands on storage and data infrastructure.
Developing an effective data infrastructure for AI requires a holistic approach, considering data, database, processing, and storage as a unified entity. This is how VAST Data approaches the challenge.
Research Report: Impact of Storage Architecture on the AI Lifecycle
Traditional storage solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, often fail to meet the varying needs of each phase of the AI lifecycle. These legacy approaches are particularly ill-suited for the demands of distributed training, where keeping an expensive AI training cluster idle has a real economic impact on the enterprise.
Quick Take: Micron 9550, The Industry’s Fastest Data Center SSD
Micron today announced its new 9550 NVMe SSD, setting a new benchmark as the industry’s fastest data center SSD. The new SSD meets the stringent demands of modern data centers, particularly those supporting AI and other performance-sensitive workloads.
Research Note: NetApp Updates Cloud Offerings
NetApp announced new capabilities designed for strategic cloud workloads, including GenAI and VMware, to help reduce the resources and risks for managing these workloads in hybrid multi-cloud environments.
Quick Take: VAST Data Platform Achieves NVIDIA Partner Network Certification
VAST Data announced that its VAST Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance storage solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners. The certification highlights VAST’s position as a leading data platform provider for AI cloud infrastructure and enhances its collaboration with NVIDIA in building next-generation AI factories.
Research Note: Pure Storage Expands Platform @ Pure Accelerate
At its recent Pure Accelerate customer event, Pure unveiled a slew of new capabilities focused on bolstering Pure’s platform approach to enterprise storage. Pure delivers a comprehensive, flexible, high-performance platform tailored to modern “data first” enterprise needs.
Research Note: VAST Data/Cisco AI Collaboration
VAST Data and Cisco announced a new collaboration to deliver a robust, high-performance AI data infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with an Ethernet-based AI fabric designed to handle data at an exabyte scale. Each company brings specialized expertise to create a unified, high-performance AI data platform.
Quick Take: Mirantis and Portworx Collaboration
Pure Storage’s Portworx and Mirantis announced a new collaboration to address the complexities of data management in Kubernetes environments, providing enterprises with a robust solution that enhances their containerization strategies.
Research Note: Pure Storage FQ1 2025 Earnings
Pure Storage’s Q1 FY2025 earnings show a positive tone for the year, showcasing a remarkable return to double-digit revenue growth and solidifying its strategic position in the competitive data storage market. With an 18% year-over-year revenue increase, the company has demonstrated its ability to leverage emerging opportunities, particularly in AI-driven workloads and hyperscaler environments.
Quick Take: Hitachi/Google Cloud AI Partnership
Hitachi and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership to drive enterprise innovation and productivity using generative AI. Hitachi will establish a new business unit that addresses industry challenges with AI technologies like Gemini models and Vertex AI. The partnership also helps expand Hitachi’s Lumada digital business and improve operational efficiencies within the Hitachi Group.
Research Note: Dell PowerStore Prime
Dell Technologies announced its new PowerStore Prime solutions at the 2024 Dell Technologies World. PowerStore Prime combines cutting-edge all-flash storage technology with strategic business enhancements designed to address the rapidly evolving needs of modern enterprises.
Research Brief: Dell AI Factory
At NVIDIA GTC earlier this year, Dell announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA that was heavily based on NVIDIA technology. At this year’s Dell Tech World, Dell went further, introducing its own Dell AI Factory, while also updating the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.
Quick Take: Panasas Rebrands as VDURA, Shifts to SaaS Model
Legacy parallel file system provider Panasas is transitioning from hardware sales to focusing on the public cloud under its new brand, VDURA. Traditionally, Panasas offered the PanFS software platform, which supports high-capacity drives and diverse connectivity options targeting the HPC market.
Quick Take: IBM’s Storage Assurance Program
IBM announced its new IBM Storage Assurance program. IBM’s new IT lifecycle management option aims to maximize performance and provide clients with enhanced choice and control within the data center.
Research Note: IBM FlashSystem 5300
IBM launched its new IBM FlashSystem 5300, a new entry-level storage solution with exceptional price performance, high availability, and enterprise-class data services within a compact 1U rack unit. The new array meets the needs of both small and large organizations facing the challenges of resource-constrained data centers and demanding workloads.
Research Note: Western Digital FQ4 2024 Earnings
Western Digital released its FQ4 2024 financial results. The company exceeded expectations with revenue of $3.5 billion, a non-GAAP gross margin of 29.3%, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.63. The success was attributed to a diversified portfolio of products and structural changes to the business that improved profitability.
Quick Take: Western Digital’s FQ3 2024 Earnings
Western Digital reported strong earnings for its third quarter of fiscal 2024, with revenue reaching $3.5 billion, a non-GAAP gross margin of 29.3%, and non-GAAP earnings per share at $0.63. WD exceeded consensus estimates.
Quick Take: NetApp’s Updates to Google Cloud Offering & GenAI Toolkit Reference
NetApp is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to enhance data utilization for generative AI and hybrid cloud workloads, introducing its Flex service level for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
Additionally, NetApp previewed its GenAI toolkit reference architecture that facilitates retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.
Quick Take: VAST Data’s Nvidia DPU-Based AI Cloud Architecture
VAST Data recently introduced a new AI cloud architecture based on Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPU technology. The architecture is designed to improve performance, security, and efficiency for AI data services. The approach seeks to enhance data center operations and introduce a secure, zero-trust environment by integrating storage and database processing into AI servers.
Research Note: Dell APEX Files for Microsoft Azure
Dell recently introduced its new APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure, designed to enhance businesses’ multi-cloud capabilities. The new solution integrates Dell PowerScale OneFS, its high-performance storage system, into the Azure cloud, allowing customers to manage and consolidate data efficiently, reduce costs, and improve data security and protection. It also utilizes Azure’s AI tools to provide quicker insights.
Quick Take: NetApp’s Real-Time Ransomware Detection For ONTAP
NetApp announced new cyber-resiliency capabilities to help customers better protect against and recover from ransomware attacks. Integrating AI and ML into its enterprise primary storage solutions, NetApp offers real-time ransomware protection for primary and secondary data, regardless of whether it’s stored on-premises or in the cloud.
Quick Take: Wasabi AiR Intelligent Media Storage
Wasabi AiR integrates artificial intelligence to transform how video content is stored, accessed, and utilized. The new offering combines the cost-effectiveness and high performance of Wasabi’s object storage with sophisticated AI capabilities, including automatic metadata tagging and multilingual searchable speech-to-text transcription.
Subscription Growth Fuels Pure Storage Earnings Beat
In its fiscal Q4 2024 earnings release, Pure Storage exceeded revenue and operating profit guidance, demonstrating strong financial performance and market demand for its products and services. The most interesting aspect of Pure’s earnings is the growth of its subscription-based business, now accounting for more than 40% of its total revenue.
Quick Take: Hammerspace Hyperscale NAS For AI & HPC
Hammerspace unveiled its new high-performance NAS architecture, Hyperscale NAS, to cater to the growing demands of enterprise AI, machine learning, deep learning initiatives, and the increasing use of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud.
Quick Take: VAST Data and Supermicro Collaborate on Scalable AI Solution
Supermicro/VAST Data’s new solution provides innovative parallel architecture and unified global namespace ensure optimal GPU utilization, scalability, and smooth data access from edge to cloud, eliminating the usual trade-offs between performance and capacity.
Research Note: NetApp Autonomous Ransomware Protection
NetApp recently announced enhanced cyber-resiliency capabilities to help customers better protect against and recover from ransomware attacks. Integrating AI and ML into its enterprise primary storage solutions, NetApp offers real-time malware protection for both primary and secondary data, irrespective of whether it’s stored on-premises or in the cloud.
Quick Take: WEKA Brings Data Platform to NexGen Cloud
WekaIO is partnering with NexGen Cloud, the leading UK-based sustainable infrastructure-as-a-service provider, to establish a high-performance foundation for NexGen Cloud’s upcoming AI Supercloud. This Supercloud and NexGen Cloud’s Hyperstack GPU-as-a-Service platform will leverage WEKA’s technology.
Research Note: Pure Storage FQ4 2024 Earnings
In its fiscal Q4 2024 earnings release, Pure Storage exceeded revenue and operating profit guidance, demonstrating strong financial performance and market demand for its products and services.
One of the most exciting aspects of Pure’s earnings is the growth of its subscription-based business, now accounting for more than 40% of its total revenue
Research Note: IBM’s Enhanced FlashSystem Malware Detection
IBM’s new FlashSystem ransomware detection capabilities are driven by advanced AI technologies, new fourth-generation FlashCore Module (FCM) technology, and IBM Storage Defender software enhancements.
Research Note: Hammerspace Hyperscale NAS
Hammerspace unveiled its new high-performance NAS architecture, Hyperscale NAS, to cater to the growing demands of enterprise AI, machine learning, deep learning initiatives, and the increasing use of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud.
Quick Take: Dell’s PowerScale F210 and F710
Dell Technologies today announced the introduction of two new all-flash storage arrays, the PowerScale F210 and F710, as part of its commitment to delivering AI-optimized infrastructure. The PowerScale platform is designed to be AI-ready, offering exceptional performance, scalability, efficiency, federal-grade security, and multi-cloud agility.
After A Year: Checking in on IBM Ceph
It’s been about a year since IBM brought Red Hat’s OpenShift Data into the IBM Storage group. In that time, IBM has focused on addressing data challenges in AI scaling and the storage requirements to support the rapidly growing data, along with various formats and locations, within the modern hybrid-cloud enterprise.
Research Note: HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Release 3
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the general availability of Release 3 of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, built on HPE Alletra Storage MP.
The new release represents a significant advancement in block storage technology. It offers the industry’s first disaggregated, scale-out block storage with a 100% data availability guarantee.
Research Note: Western Digital FQ2’24 Earnings
Western Digital’s fiscal year 2024 second-quarter results have spotlighted the company’s strategic maneuvers in a turbulent technology landscape. Reporting a revenue of $3 billion and facing a non-GAAP loss per share of $0.69, Western Digital finds itself at a crucial crossroads.
VAST Data More Than Doubles Valuation to $9.1B in Latest Funding Round
VAST Data recently announced a $118 million in a Series E funding round, elevating its valuation to $9.1 billion post-money. The valuation is more than double that of VAST’s previous funding round.
WEKA Lights Up the Vegas Sphere for U2
Supplying the data infrastructure for something like U2’s show at the Sphere in Las Vegas is significant challenge.
This piece looks at how WEKA stepped up to meet the demanding challenges of one of the biggest bands in the world.
Research Note: Lenovo Fiscal Q2 2024 Earnings
This Research Note explores Lenovo Group Limited’s financial and operational performance across its distinct business units in its Fiscal Q2 2024. Focusing on the Solutions and Services Group (SSG), Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), and Intelligent Device Group (IDG), looking at each business unit’s contributions to Lenovo’s overall business strategy.
Research Report: Tackling IT Complexity with Simplified Enterprise Storage
In this sponsored Research Paper, we take a look at how reducing the complexity of enterprise storage has positive rippling impact that improves IT operations.
IBM Introduces its Storage Scale System 6000
IBM recently introduced its Storage Scale System 6000. IBM’s cloud-scale global software-defined data platform addresses the escalating demands of data-intensive workloads and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
NetApp Releases 2023 Data Complexity Report
NetApp released its 2023 Data Complexity Report results showing the impact of cloud migration, cybersecurity, and even sustainability on enterprise data infrastructure.
VAST Data to Provide Data Infrastructure for Lambda
Lambda and VAST Data have engaged in a new strategic partnership that brings the VAST Data Platform to Lambda.
NetApp And Equinix Metal Introduce BM Storage-as-a-Service
NetApp and Equinix Metal this week introduced a new Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaaS) storage solution, integrating NetApp Storage with Equinix Metal to operate as an as-a-service model through NetApp Keystone.
Research Note: Inside the Dell PowerMaxOS 10.1 Update
Dell Technologies has updated its high-end block storage OS, PowerMaxOS, with version 10.1. The update focuses on several key areas, including data reduction, power usage monitoring, and cybersecurity certification.
Inside Hitachi Vantara’s new Virtual Storage Platform One
Hitachi Vantara’s new Virtual Storage Platform One is designed to address the challenges faced by IT leaders who need to scale data and modernize applications across complex, distributed hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
Cloudian, AMD & Micron Boost Performance of Object Storage
Cloudian, in partnership with AMD and Micron, recently demonstrated a significant breakthrough in object storage performance and energy efficiency, delivering extreme performance levels from Cloudian’s software-defined object storage solution.
Inside Pure Storage’s New Evergreen Offerings
Pure announced that it would pay back its customers for the power and rack costs for its Evergreen//One Storage-as-a-Service.
The company also introduced new guarantees for its overall storage portfolio that make its storage easier to procure while increasing its longevity. The new options include flexible financing, enhanced resilience, and AI-powered service capabilities.
Research Note: Pure Storage’s New & Updated Evergreen Offerings
Pure Storage introduced several enhancements that the bar for how Infrastructure- as-a-Service is delivered. At the same time, the company expanded its longevity programs to give IT organizations an unprecedented level of investment protection.
In Conversation: Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog on Strengthening Enterprise Storage
Enterprise storage is changing as IT organizations demand more flexible, more affordable, easier to use, cyber-resilient, and higher-performance storage solutions.
Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog and NAND Research Principal Analyst Steve McDowell delve into the evolving needs of enterprise storage, and how Infinidat’s recent innovations expand the options available to enterprise IT.
Dell Launces APEX Block Storage for Azure
This week, Dell has launched its new APEX Block Storage for Azure, just days after it released its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure.
Let’s look at what Dell is delivering.
Komprise’s Unveils Storage Insights Tool to Help Tame Unstructured Data Sprawl
Komprise recently announced a new data management capability, Storage Insights, delivered as part of the latest update to its leading Intelligent Data Management platform.
Infinidat Adds All-Flash Capabilities in InfiniBox SSA & Introduces Higher-Capacity Model
Infinidat announced an increase in the capacity of it InfiniBox SSA II array and introduced new scalability options for its entry-level models. It also unveiled a unique software capability delivers the power of an all-flash array from within InfiniBox for workloads that need that extra bit of performance.
Amazon Unveils New Cloud Storage Offerings at AWS Storage Day
At Amazon’s recent AWS Storage Day, Amazon announced updated to FSx for Lustre, Logical air-gap for AWS Backup, and expanded DataSync integrations.
Pure Storage Demonstrates the Sustainability of Flash in New ESG Report
Pure Storage takes ESG seriously, making it not just a pillar of its messaging but a core part of the company’s values. Earlier this month Pure Storage released its annual ESG Report, detailing its progress on the environmental, social, and governance issues that most impact the company, its customers and its stakeholders. Insight: Pure’s Flash […]
Pure Storage Brings Cloud Block Store To Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution
Pure Storage is bringing its Cloud Block Store (CBS) to Microsoft AVS, allowing users to provision storage as needed to fully use an Azure AVS deployment without having to scale out compute resources.
VAST Data Unveils New VAST Data Platform
The new VAST Data Platform extends VAST’s universal storage capabilities with new data access and analytics features. The VAST Data Platform combines the VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase, and VAST DataSpace. The company also teased the VAST DataEngine, coming sometime next year. Let’s look at each of these elements.
In Conversation: VAST Data CMO Jeff Denworth on the New VAST Data Platform
At the launch of VAST Data’s new VAST Data Platform, principal analyst Steve McDowell talked with VAST CMO & cofounder Jeff Denworth about the new offering.
Lenovo Unveils New ThinkSystem Storage Offerings Targeted At AI And SMB
Lenovo announced two new storage offerings that build on its overall infrastructure momentum. The new ThinkSystem DG series of enterprise storage arrays are designed to balance the needs of high-performance workloads, such as AI, with capacity-optimized performance. Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem DM3010H storage array brings the enterprise-level features of the ThinkSystem DM series to the SMB market.
IBM FlashSystem 5045 Arrives With Enhanced Data Resilience Capabilities
IBM introduced its new entry-level FlashSystem 5045 release are a broad set of features that bring enhanced data protection and cyber-resiliency into IBM’s entry-level flash storage space.