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IBM Introduces Next-Generation FlashSystem with Agentic AI for Autonomous Storage Operations

IBM has launched its next-generation IBM FlashSystem portfolio, making it an autonomous storage layer powered by agentic AI. This new version builds on FlashSystem’s existing AI features. IBM is improving resilience and automating operations. It offers ongoing protection, automated threat analysis, and personalized recovery advice. IBM claims this method can cut manual storage management tasks

TrueNAS R60
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TrueNAS R60 Brings Petabyte-Class NVMe Density to Compact 1U Storage

TrueNAS has launched the R60, a storage platform created to address traditional capacity limits. The R60 features a high-density NVMe design built for AI, HPC, and analytics I/O profiles. Packaged in a 1U platform, the R60 is designed to deliver consistent throughput and operational reliability in compute-intensive environments without compromising data control, cost, or long-term

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VDURA Calls Out VAST and WEKA on Flash Economics, Launches 50% Undercut Program

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

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VAST Amplify Aims to Make Your Existing SSDs Feel 6× Bigger

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

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Dell PowerStore 5200Q: QLC for Mainstream Workloads and the March Toward Autonomous Storage

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,

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Dell PowerStore and PowerFlex in Equinix: Cloud-Adjacent Infrastructure for Hybrid Data

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

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Sandisk Sprandom Turbocharges SSD Preconditioning

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

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NetApp Links AWS AI to FSx for ONTAP with New S3 Access Points

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,

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Spectra Logic TFinity Plus Chosen to Power Exabyte-Scale Archive for TACC’s Horizon Supercomputer

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

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WEKApod Prime and Nitro: Next-Generation Storage Platforms for AI Factories

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