SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 29, 2024 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the launch of a block storage appliance as part of its Virtual Storage Platform One hybrid-cloud data platform. The new offerings include three dedicated models providing businesses with a common data plane […]
Hitachi Vantara Announces Block Storage Appliance for Virtual Storage Platform One Portfolio
May 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Samsung and Western Digital Form Zoned (Block) Storage Collaboration
March 29, 2022 by
Samsung Electronics and Western Digital today announced a collaboration around zoned storage, which is a form of block storage, focused on data placement, processing and fabrics (D2PF) technologies. Western Digital has said zone storage is designed for workloads with increasingly voluminous and complex data management needs, creating “block storage devices that have their address space […]
HPC Storage Specialist Excelero Now Part of NVIDIA
March 7, 2022 by
Excelero, a Tel Aviv-based provider of high-performance software-defined storage, is now a part of NVIDIA. “The company’s team of engineers — including its seasoned co-founders with decades of experience in HPC, storage and networking — bring deep expertise in the block storage that large businesses use in storage-area networks,” NVIDIA said in a blog announcing […]
NCI Australia Selects SoftIron for Ceph-based Storage for Integrated HPC Environment
February 24, 2022 by
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 […]
Cloud Compute in 2019: Workloads and Options
December 30, 2019 by
In this video, Oracle Sr Director Leo Leung cloud computing options by workload in 2019. “Of course there’s variance when it comes to clock speeds, when it comes to the amount of memory versus storage is on board. But generally they fall in these families: CPU based instances that have storage onboard, CPU instances that require network storage, and GPU instances that require network storage.”
Red Hat Ceph Storage Powers Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
July 21, 2017 by
On June 6, Red Hat announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is using Red Hat Ceph Storage to support the growing needs of its research community. UAB selected Red Hat Ceph Storage because it offers researchers a flexible platform that can accommodate the vast amounts of data necessary to support future innovation and discovery. “UAB is a leader in computational research, with more than $500 million in annual research expenditures in areas including engineering, statistical genetics, genomics and next-generation gene sequencing,” said Curtis A. Carver Jr., VP and CIO at UAB. “Researchers and students aggregate, analyze, and store massive amounts of data, which is used to support groundbreaking medical discoveries from new cancer biomarkers to state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging techniques.”
