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Matching HPC parallel file systems - Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software -
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Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software
Hammerspace says IO500 results show its standard Linux plus NFS system software achieves HPC-class performance with proprietary parallel file system complexity. The IO500 benchmark ranks the performan...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/25/hammerspace-bangs-io500-performance-bell-with-its-standard-software/
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Nvidia speeding data I/O to its GPUs again - Nvidia SCADA offloads storage control path to the GPU -
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Nvidia SCADA offloads storage control path to the GPU
The Nvidia SCADA scheme is ushering in GPU-controlled storage IO for AI inferencing that will be faster than GPUDirect.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/25/scada-nvidia/
about 7 hours ago
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Wasabi sets itself on Fire - offering SSD-based fast access cloud storage for AI -
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Wasabi sets itself on Fire
Wasabi is taking on public cloud hyperscalers with fast-access object storage for AI use. Traditionally, Wasabi supplies single-tier, S3-compliant object storage in its cloud at lower-than-Amazon pric...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/24/wasabi-sets-itself-on-fire/
about 7 hours ago
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CXL 4.0 spec doubles bandwidth and stretches memory pooling to multi-rack setups -
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CXL 4.0 doubles bandwidth and stretches memory pooling to multi-rack setups
The fourth CXL memory sharing spec adds speed and extends distance for multi-rack systems.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/24/cxl-4/
about 7 hours ago
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Solidigm: NAND industry facing fab shortfall -
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Solidigm: NAND industry facing fab shortfall
The NAND industry is facing a 3-year NAND chip output shortage as new fabs will take years to build. This was the message from Solidigm at an A3 Tech Live session in London. The company is a 100 perce...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/21/solidigm-nand-industry-facing-fab-shortfall/
4 days ago
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Keepit’s AI-driven SaaS app connector expansion -
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Keepit's AI-driven SaaS app connector expansion
SaaS app protector Keepit is using AI to increase the number of AaS apps it can protect. The company provides an alternative to other SaaS app protectors, such as HYCU and Druva, by using its own data...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/21/keepits-ai-driven-saas-app-connector-expansion/
4 days ago
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Veeam’s lucky thirteen has twenty updates -
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Veeam’s lucky thirteen has twenty updates
Version 13 of Veeam’s Data Platform software ups the company’s game in data protection coverage, security, resilience AI assistance for admins and users. Veeam calls this a ground-breaking release and...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/19/veeams-lucky-thirteen-has-twenty-updates/
6 days ago
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Hitachi Vantara’s high-end block storage array news -
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Hitachi Vantara's high-end block storage array news
HItachi Vantara has revamped its mainstream VSP One 5000 enterprise storage arrays from a hybrid SSD+HDD design to all-NVMe flash systems and new, more powerful high-end model. The updated range is i...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/19/hitachi-vantaras-high-end-block-storage-array-news/
6 days ago
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NetApp goes to court against former exec working for VAST Data -
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NetApp goes to court against former exec working for VAST Data
Legal warfare against Red Stapler CEO
https://chrismellor.substack.com/p/netapp-goes-to-court-against-former
7 days ago
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Dell pushes Azure PowerScale portation, puts PowerStore in Azure Local private cloud -
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Dell pushes Azure PowerScale portation, puts PowerStore in Azure Local private cloud
Dell’s PowerScale filesystem storage is available as a managed service from Azure, and its PowerStore block storage is an option for Microsoft’s Azure Local product. PowerStore is Dell’s unified file ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/dell-ignites-azure-powerscale-portation-puts-powerstore-in-azure-local-private-cloud/
7 days ago
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Azure gets VAST’s AI OS as VAST builds out global AI operations data fabric -
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Azure gets VAST’s AI OS as VAST builds out global AI operations data fabric
VAST Data’s AI OS software stack has been ported to Azure and will be available as a managed service. The AI OS is composed of a stack of data services; DataSpace, DataBase, DataStore, DataEngine, Age...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/azure-gets-vasts-ai-os-as-vast-builds-out-global-ai-operations-data-fabric/
7 days ago
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Dell's Project Lightning involves adding a proprietary client-side driver to PowerScale. See bootnote (2) -
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Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel
Dell announced Project Lightning has parallelized PowerScale, to speed file read and write performance, along with more PowerScale and ObjectScale news, at SuperComputing 2025. Dell says it, with thes...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/dell-powerscale-gets-struck-by-lightning-and-goes-parallel/
7 days ago
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DDN goes hard CORE -
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DDN goes hard CORE
DDN is making a splash at SC25 by launching new systems and a unified CORE AI and HPC data plane covering its EXAScaler Lustre (file) and Infinia (object) storage systems, with new A1400X3i and A12200...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/ddn-goes-hard-core/
7 days ago
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VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon -
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VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon
TACC’s Horizon supercomputer is using VAST Data online storage, a Dell caching archive front end, Versity software, and Spectra Logic offline tape storage to hold its data. TACC, the Texas Advanced Co...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/vast-data-dell-versity-and-spectra-logic-are-shining-storage-stars-on-taccs-horizon/
7 days ago
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Positive change signs in Quantum’s second quarter results -
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Positive change signs in Quantum’s second quarter results
The loss-making ship that is Quantum is steering towards calmer financial waters, according to profit and loss accounts for Q2 of its fiscal 2026. Revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 2025, wer...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/positive-change-signs-in-quantums-second-quarter-results/
7 days ago
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Hammerspace boosts AI data access performance three ways -
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Hammerspace boosts AI data access performance three ways
Hammerspace has accelerated its data orchestrating platform software with faster and more scalable metadata reads, and better data placement in a GPU server’s directly-attached storage drives. The com...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/hammerspace-boosts-ai-data-access-performance-three-ways/
8 days ago
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VAST Data storage to star in Taiwan AI Factory -
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VAST Data storage to star in Taiwan AI Factory
GMI Cloud’s AI Factory datacenter in Taiwan will use VAST Data storage to feed data to 7,000 Blackwell GPUs.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/vast-data-storage-to-star-in-taiwan-ai-factory/
8 days ago
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Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel -
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Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel
Dell announced Project Lightning has parallelized PowerScale, to speed file read and write performance, along with more PowerScale and ObjectScale news, at SuperComputing 2025. Dell says it, with thes...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/dell-powerscale-gets-struck-by-lightning-and-goes-parallel/
8 days ago
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FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost -
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FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost
FMC, a Dresden, Germany-based fabless Ferro-Electric Memory company, has raised €100 million ($116.2 million) in C-round funding to take its FERAM chip technology into AI datacenters and replace DRAM ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/fmc-gets-feram-cash-to-kill-optanes-ghost/
11 days ago
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MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy -
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MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy
MinIO is combining its AIStor object software with Supermicro Intel Xeon 6 servers and Solidigm SSDs.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/minio-adds-exapod-ref-architecture-for-exascale-ai-storage/
11 days ago
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Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals -
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Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals
Quantum has sped up part-object retrieval from its ActiveScale tape backend with a Ranged Restore feature.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/quantum-getting-faster-object-data-retrieval-from-activescale-tape/
11 days ago
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Commvault Shift event audience gets security and protection hybrid cloud news blitz -
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Commvault Shift event audience gets security and protection hybrid cloud news blitz – Blocks and Files
The integration of security and data protection across the on-premises, public clouds and SaaS area at Commvault is getting broader and deeper, and attendees at its Shift Cloud Summit event were left ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/commvault-shift-event-audience-gets-security-and-protection-hybrid-cloud-news-blitz/
12 days ago
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Druva extends Microsoft cloud protection lineup -
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Druva extends Microsoft cloud protection lineup – Blocks and Files
Druva is announcing five additional Microsoft cloud protections covering Azure, Entra ID, Teams, and Dynamics 365 ERP.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/druva-protecting-more-microsoft-cloud-apps/
12 days ago
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Gimme your public cloud data! CoreWeave launches zero egress cost push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds -
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CoreWeave launches ‘zero egress’ push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds – Blocks and Files
CoreWeave wants customers to pull their AI-relevant unstructured data out of the hyperscalers and into its own facilities.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/coreweave-zero-egress/
12 days ago
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Gimme your public cloud data! CoreWeave launches zero egress cost push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds -
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CoreWeave launches ‘zero egress’ push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds – Blocks and Files
CoreWeave wants customers to pull their AI-relevant unstructured data out of the hyperscalers and into its own facilities.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/coreweave-zero-egress/
12 days ago
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Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3 -
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Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3 – Blocks and Files
Backblaze’s monthly disk drive stats tell a different story this month with odd failure rate rises Cloud storage supplier Backblaze puts out quarterly annual failure rate (AFR) statistics for its hund...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/backblaze-quarterly-drive-stats/
12 days ago
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LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut -
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LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut – Blocks and Files
The Linear Tape Open consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10 raw capacity upgrade to 40 TB.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/lto10-upgrade/
12 days ago
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14 days ago
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pNFS getting bigger - PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server -
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PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server – Blocks and Files
All-flash and software-defined storage business PEAK:AIO has a single-node metadata server technology which it has evolved into a multi-node, scale-out product using open-source parallel NFS code. The...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/12/peakaios-scale-out-flash-pnfs-meta-data-server/
14 days ago
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Qumulo comment added to "HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software" -
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HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software – Blocks and Files
HPE has announced internally and to its channel partners that it will be stopping the sale of Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software. Sales quoting will end on Jan 31, with orders no longer accepted from M...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/07/hpe-stops-selling-qumulo-scality-and-weka-software/
14 days ago
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Pure Storage Data Stream is an AI pipeline data dream -
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Pure Storage Data Stream is an AI pipeline data dream – Blocks and Files
Pure Storage has introduced Data Stream, a GPU-centric, AI-powered, integrated hardware and software stack for AI data pipelines. Data Stream is a software suite running on FlashBlade//S and Nvidia Bl...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/11/pure-storage-data-stream-is-an-ai-pipeline-data-dream/
14 days ago
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VAST supports Google Cloud TPUs in managed service -
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VAST supports Google Cloud TPUs in managed service – Blocks and Files
VAST Data and Google Cloud have announced a full-managed VAST AI OS service – a unified global namespace across hybrid environments supporting Google TPUs. VAST’s AI OS is basically its entire softwar...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/11/vast-supports-google-cloud-tpus-in-managed-service-with-red-staplers-sw/
14 days ago
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Storage news ticker – 10 November 2025 - with Cobalt Iron, DDN, the FCIA, IEDM, Infinidat, Kingston, N-able, MongoDB, Object First, RAAAM Memory, the SNIA, VDURA -
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Storage news ticker - 10 November 2025 – Blocks and Files
Jeskell Systems and Cobalt Iron have launched the industry’s first AI- and analytics-driven Backup as a Service (BaaS) dedicated to US government federal agencies. Delivered in partnership with the De...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/10/storage-news-ticker-10-november-2025/
15 days ago
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HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software -
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HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software – Blocks and Files
HPE has announced internally and to its channel partners that it will be stopping the sale of Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software. Sales quoting will end on Jan 1st, with orders no longer accepted from ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/07/hpe-stops-selling-qumulo-scality-and-weka-software/
15 days ago
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Sandisk revenues boom as data center glory beckons -
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Sandisk revenues boom as data center glory beckons – Blocks and Files
SSD supplier Sandisk enjoyed another double-digit revenue growth quarter with sales increases in all three of its market segments Revenues in its first fiscal 2026 quarter were up 23 percent year/year...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/07/sandisk-revenues-boom-as-data-center-glory-beckons/
18 days ago
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Backblaze cloud storage revenues fire up nicely while backup is flat -
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Backblaze cloud storage revenues fire up nicely while backup is flat – Blocks and Files
Backblaze cloud storage and backup revenues were $37.2 million, beating the high-end of its guidance, with reduced GAAP losses of $3.8 million as the business progresses to profitability. However the ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/07/backblaze-cloud-storage-revenues-fire-up-nicely-while-backup-is-flat/
18 days ago
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VAST Data lands $1.17 billion CoreWeave deal -
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Home – Blocks and Files
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19 days ago
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Toshiba more than doubles video surveillance disk capacity -
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Toshiba more than doubles video surveillance disk capacity – Blocks and Files
Toshiba has increased its video surveillance disk drive capacity from 10 to 24 TB with a new S300 AS model. The shingled magnetic recording (SMR) S300 and conventional (non-shingled) S300 Pro product...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/05/toshiba-more-than-doubles-video-surveillance-disk-capacity/
20 days ago
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Hitachi Vantara unveils AI agent-building iQ Studio -
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Hitachi Vantara unveils AI agent-building iQ Studio – Blocks and Files
Hitachi Vantara customers can build, deploy and manage AI agents and applications at scale with the Hitachi iQ Studio agent builder offering. Hitachi iQ refers to a set of Hitachi AI offerings with iQ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/05/hitachi-vantara-unveils-ai-agent-building-iq-studio/
20 days ago
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Snowflake’s agentic AI news assault -
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Snowflake’s agentic AI news assault – Blocks and Files
Snowflake is adding agentic AI features to its offerings so that customers’ AI agents can safely and securely access their Snowflake data. The cloud data warehouser made the announcements at its Build...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/05/snowflakes-agentic-ai-news-assault/
20 days ago
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Cloudian and CTERA become each other’s reseller -
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Cloudian and CTERA become each other’s reseller – Blocks and Files
Object storage supplier Cloudian and object-based Cloud File Services business CTERA have signed a global strategic agreement to resell the other’s product. Cloudian will resell CTERA’s Intelligent Da...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/04/cloudian-and-ctera-become-each-others-reseller/
21 days ago
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Active Archive Alliance sees three archive tiers -
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Active Archive Alliance sees three archive tiers – Blocks and Files
WORM, WORSe and WORN are three archive tiers defined by the Active Archive Alliance, as it sees AI requiring fast access to recently archived data which requires dynamic access. These tiers are define...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/04/active-archive-alliance-sees-three-archive-tiers/
21 days ago
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HPE doubles switchless Alletra block storage node count -
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HPE doubles switchless Alletra block storage node count – Blocks and Files
HPE is enabling one to four node Alletra Storage MP B10000 expansion without needing a network switch, saving rackspace and power. The Alletra Storage MP B10000 is a bit of a name mouthful. It’s based...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/04/hpe-doubles-switchless-alletra-block-storage-node-count/
21 days ago
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Huawei's AI-focussed, all-flash storage -
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Huawei's AI-focussed, all-flash storage – Blocks and Files
Huawei’s storage product range is centered around two product families; the OceanStor Dorado SAN, NAS and S3 core business arrays, and the OceanStor Pacific unstructured data systems, along with a con...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/03/huawei-develops-new-ai-focussed-all-flash-storage/
22 days ago
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SK hynix developing AI-specific memory tech trio -
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SK hynix developing AI-specific memory tech trio – Blocks and Files
Not satisfied with just announcing three new AI NAND technologies, SK Hynix is working on new DRAM product technologies for the AI market, saying it wants to be a full stack AI memory creator. SK hyni...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/03/sk-hynix-developing-ai-specific-memory-tech-trio/
22 days ago
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Western Digital makes bank in Q1 amid AI gold rush -
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Western Digital makes bank in Q1 amid AI gold rush – Blocks and Files
Western Digital’s revenues for Q1 of its fiscal 2026 – ended October 3 – jumped 27 percent year-on-year to $2.82 billion on the back of hyperscalers buying nearline disk drives, and net income shot up...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/31/western-digital-extends-lead-over-seagate-as-ai-drives-demand-tailwinds/
25 days ago
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Quantum gets post-quantum cryptograpy tech through Entanglement -
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Quantum gets post-quantum cryptograpy tech through Entanglement – Blocks and Files
Quantum is partnering post-quantum security business Entanglement to provide a a regionalized AI Data Storage service – a new departure for Quantum – and it’s put out preliminary second fy2025 quarter...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/31/quantum-gets-post-quantum-cryptograpy-tech-through-entanglement/
25 days ago
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Samsung sees HBM-driven memory revenue peak -
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Samsung sees HBM-driven memory revenue peak – Blocks and Files
Samsung shared in the AI market’s frenzy for fast GPU memory with record high quarterly revenues. Revenues in its third 2025 quarter were ₩86.1 trillion ($60.3 billion), 8.9 percent higher year/year, ...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/31/samsung-sees-hbm-driven-memory-revenue-surge/
25 days ago
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VAST Data in xAI’s Frontier AI Factory, Nscale’s UK data centers and Williams F1 racing team -
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VAST Data in xAI’s Frontier AI Factory, Nscale’s UK data centers and Williams F1 racing team – Blocks and Files
VAST Data is increasing its AI data center penetration with more Colossus storage and providing its product for the UK’s Nscale data centers. It’s also resigned a sponsorship deal with the Atlassian W...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/30/vast-data-in-xais-frontier-ai-factory-nscales-uk-data-centers-and-williams-f1-racing-team/
26 days ago
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HBM gold mine sends SK hynix revenues to a new high point -
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HBM gold mine sends SK hynix revenues to a new high point – Blocks and Files
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is high revenue memory as far as Korea’s SK Hynix is concerned; revenues in the third 2025 quarter were ₩24.449 trillion ($17.1 billion), up 39 percent year/year, with a ne...
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/30/hbm-gold-mine-sends-sk-hynix-revenues-to-a-new-high-point/
26 days ago
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