LONDON — April 20, 2022 — SoftIron Ltd., maker of data center solutions, today announced the expansion of its CTO office as it realigns internally and expands into new engineering roles. Kenny Van Alstyne, Chief Technical Officer for SoftIron, says the development reflects SoftIron’s desire to expand its patent portfolio and intellectual property while deepening […]
NCI Australia Selects SoftIron for Ceph-based Storage for Integrated HPC Environment
London – February 24, 2022 – SoftIron Ltd., a maker of task-specific data infrastructure appliances, today announced their selection by National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Australia, to provide Ceph-based object storage for its integrated computational environment. The new storage system will support Australia’s leading researchers through the provision of high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing and data […]
Exxact Partners with SoftIron on Ceph-based Software Defined Storage
FREMONT, CA, October 19, 2021 — Exxact Corporation, provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and data center solutions, and SoftIron, provider of task-specific data infrastructure solutions, today announced a partnership to create solutions for the enterprise designed to make software-defined storage (SDS) simple. Data center infrastructure is rapidly evolving to meet the needs […]
SoftIron Names Kenneth Van Alstyne CTO
Richmond, VA – October 5th, 2021 – SoftIron Ltd., maker of purpose-built data infrastructure solutions, today announced the appointment of Kenneth Van Alstyne to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Van Alstyne will be tasked with building out SoftIron’s technology strategy and roadmap as the company advances its mission to re-engineer performance and efficiency in […]
Ceph Foundation Announces Formation of Ceph Market Development Group
San Francisco — June 21, 2021 – The Ceph Foundation, dedicated to enabling industry members to collaborate and pool resources to support the Ceph community, today announced the formation of the Ceph Market Development Group. The new group, composed of leading industry organizations, including Canonical, Red Hat and SoftIron , will collaborate to raise awareness […]
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ NVMe-based Software-Defined Storage for the Edge
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 […]
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ Family
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 […]
SoftIron Joins iRODS Consortium; Certifies HyperDrive Compatibility with iRODS Architecture
London – (November 9, 2020) – SoftIron Ltd., a maker of task-specific data center solutions, today announced it has joined the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) Consortium, which supports the development of free open source software for data discovery, workflow automation, secure collaboration, and data virtualization. In joining the consortium, whose data management platform is […]
SoftIron Appoints Greg Bruno Chief Architect
San Diego – Oct. 21, 2020 – SoftIron Ltd., the leader in task-specific data center solutions, continues on its growth trajectory in both technical and geographic reach with the opening of two new offices, and the appointment of Greg Bruno to the role of Chief Architect. Bruno, who joins SoftIron from Teradata, will lead the […]
Craig Chadwell Joins SoftIron as VP of Product
London – September 29, 2020 – SoftIron Ltd., the leader in purpose-built and performance-optimized data center solutions, today announced the appointment of Craig Chadwell to the role of Vice President of Product to lead the company’s product strategy. Chadwell, who joins SoftIron from Lenovo, will be responsible for managing SoftIron’s flagship HyperDrive storage, HyperSwitch networking, […]