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Storage news ticker – 24 October 2022

Astera Labs demonstrated how data center operators can improve performance and reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with its CXL, PCIe 5.0, and Ethernet Connectivity solutions at the OCP Global Summit. The Leo Memory Connectivity Platform for CXL 1.1 and 2.0 is in pre-production sampling with strategic...

Cohesity, VAST arrive in Gartner’s object MQ

Gartner’s latest Distributed Files and Object Storage Magic Quadrant lists two newcomers, "visionary" Cohesity and "challenger" VAST Data. Update"...

Veritas unveils Alta cloud data protection

Veritas has announced its cloud-based Alta data protection and security software and Alta View dashboard to review and manage data in the...

Samsung wins on PCIe 4 SSD performance

Samsung has followed up its 980 Pro with the even faster 990 Pro, which beat Solidigm’s recently announced P44 Pro as a...

IBM builds Diamondback tape library for enterprise and cloud hyperscalers

Big Blue is active afresh in the archive-storing tape library business, with its Diamondback product for web-scale enterprises and hyperscalers, claimed to...

HPE looks to disaster recovery for storage growth

HPE execs have told investment analysts the company is relying on disaster recovery and data management for storage growth.

IBM upgrades guidance after revenue uptick

IBM reported third 2022 quarter revenues of $14.1 billion, up 6 percent annually, as its new mainframe cycle took off, pushing full...

Frozen in time: Gartner Magic quadrant for primary storage

The latest Gartner MQ for Primary Storage is pretty much the same as a year ago, which was pretty much the same...

Pliops unveils XDP-Rocks for RocksDB

Israeli startup Pliops has announced that its Extreme Data Processor (XDP) hardware running XDP-Rocks speeds RocksDB databases throughput by 20x and reduces...

VAST Data chases zero trust, zero waste dragon

VAST Data has updated its storage filer OS, claiming it is laying the foundation for a zero trust and "zero waste" infrastructure.  It appears to be homing in on...

SK hynix prototypes computational CXL memory

Computational memory and CXL-connected external memory pools are tech development hotspots. DRAM and NAND fabricator SK hynix has combined the two in a joint development with sister company SK Telecom to speed...

Kioxia teases gumstick SSD with OCP compliance

Kioxia has announced OCP-compliant second-generation E1.S gumstick SSDs, but neglected to provide anything other than generic comparative performance data. The datacenter-class XD7P products use fifth-generation BiCS flash with 112...

Solidigm pushes out gaming gumstick SSD

SK hynix’s Solidigm business unit has launched the P44 Pro, a much faster M.2280 gumstick format SSD than the P41 Plus that landed a couple of months ago.  Update....

Toshiba’s 20TB nearline spinner finally arrives at the party… later than rivals

Toshiba has announced a 20TB HDD, as predicted in its February roadmap, arriving almost a year after Western Digital launched its first 20TB drive. To put this further context,...
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HYCU gets onramp to Okta’s 15,000-plus customers

Data protector HYCU has gained a strategic investment from Okta Ventures as part of an extended B-round which brought in $53 million...

Storage news ticker – October 17

Cohesity said it thinks most ransomware warranties aren't worth the digital paper they are written on (it doesn't offer such guarantees itself)....

US export controls may cripple YMTC fabs

The Biden administration has initiated new technology export controls, which may well cripple China's domestic NAND producer YMTC. China's...