VDURA has introduced a new “Flash Relief Program” for organizations facing sharp NAND-driven price volatility and constrained SSD supply. The company positions the offer as a direct response to escalating all-flash platform costs and extended lead times, particularly for high-capacity SSDs used in AI and high-performance file system deployments. Market context: NAND pricing shock and
VAST Data introduced VAST Amplify, a capacity-optimization and customer-engagement program designed to help enterprises and service providers increase effective flash capacity by leveraging SSDs already deployed in their environments. Positioned for a market where storage lead times and allocation windows are tightening, the program focuses on identifying underutilized flash and rapidly qualifying existing hardware for
Since we first brought the QLC-based PowerStore 3200Q with PowerStoreOS 4.0 into the lab, Dell hasn’t slowed down. The company has expanded the lineup with the PowerStore 5200Q—a higher-performance, cost-optimized model built for a broader range of production workloads. At the same time, three major software releases (PowerStoreOS 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) have added meaningful capabilities across the platform,
Modern enterprises depend on data-intensive applications and distributed users, which makes infrastructure placement a strategic decision. Where data resides, whether on premises, colocation, public cloud, or across all three, has a direct impact on performance, cost, security, and governance. Deploying Dell PowerStore and PowerFlex inside or adjacent to Equinix Cloud-Connected Data Centers gives organizations precise
If you follow StorageReview regularly, you know that we push storage hardware hard. Across our lab, we test everything from consumer SSDs to massive enterprise systems. For any product that relies on flash storage, there’s a critical but unglamorous step we always perform before benchmarking: preconditioning. Preconditioning is the process of preparing a drive so
At AWS re:Invent in San Jose, NetApp announced a new feature that helps organizations simplify and improve their workflows by connecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI and Analytics services directly to their NetApp data, whether in the cloud or on-premises. With the latest enhancements to NetApp Workload Factory, AWS customers can expect a more innovative, faster,
Spectra Logic has been chosen as the tape library provider for a significant new archive deployment at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin. Spectra TFinity Plus tape libraries will form the long-term storage backbone for Ranch, TACC’s next-generation archive system that will support Horizon, the center’s upcoming NSF
At SC25, WEKA introduced the next generation of its WEKApod appliances, targeting organizations that need to scale AI and high-performance computing while keeping a tight handle on cost, power, and footprint. The new WEKApod Prime and WEKApod Nitro platforms are positioned to address a growing infrastructure efficiency crisis, in which GPU investments frequently outpace the
IBM continues to evolve its Storage Scale System 6000 platform to address a familiar problem in modern data centers: data silos that slow down AI initiatives, increase infrastructure complexity, and strand valuable information. By unifying data across edge, core, and cloud through a single global namespace and Active File Management (AFM), the Storage Scale System
Quantum has updated its ActiveScale object storage platform, significantly improving access to cold data in Glacier-class archive tiers. This update features an exclusive Ranged Restore capability for tape-based cold storage, using Quantum’s patented erasure-coded object-on-tape design. Along with a new restore engine optimized for small-object performance, these changes transform tape archives from slow, offline storage
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