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News Bits: Alation, Hammerspace, DDN, Supermicro, Kaseya, Arcserve, StorageCraft, CloudPhysics, & More

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have.  Alation 2021.1 hits general availability. Hammerspace partners with Supermicro on Kubernetes. DDN has record-breaking 2020. Supermicro announces multi-node A100 systems. Kaseya acquires RocketCyber. Arcserve and StorageCraft merge. CloudPhysics acquired by HPE.

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NVIDIA & NetApp Work To Simplify AI

NVIDIA and NetApp announced that they are working together to simplify and increase the speed of AI deployments. This expands other partnerships NetApp has gone into surrounding AI, including last year’s partnership with Run:AI and NetApp ONTAP AI. This go-round the two companies are combining both NetApp and NVIDIA hardware along with ONTAP AI software.

Seagate Lyve Cloud
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Seagate Lyve Cloud Unveiled

Today Seagate Technology plc announced its Storage-as-a-Service platform, Seagate Lyve Cloud. Lyve Cloud is an S3-compatible storage-only cloud that is said to enable always-on mass capacity data storage and activation. Lyve Cloud is being brought to more customers through collaboration with Equinix.

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KIOXIA & Western Digital Announced Sixth-Gen, 162-Layer 3D Flash Memory

Today KIOXIA Corporation and Western Digital Corp announced that both companies have developed their sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology. This marks the highest density and most advanced 3D Flash memory for both companies. KIOXIA and Western Digital have partnered on various projects for over 20 years, this just being the latest development in their

Violin QV1020
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StorCentric Violin QV1020 Announced

StorCentric announced the latest in the Violin QV-Series, the Violin QV1020. The QV1020 is an all NVMe storage array that is said to be simple, cost-effective, and provide high performance. The QV1020 adds to the Violin QV-Series that already had the QV2020 and now they can reach more businesses of various sizes. Though there is

Samsung HBM-PIM
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Samsung HBM-PIM Announced

Today Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed what it refers to as the industry’s first High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) processing power, the Samsung HBM-PIM. The PIM part stands for processing-in-memory that is architecture to bring AI capabilities inside the high-performance memory. The company claims this will result

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Pure Storage Enhances Purity for FlashArray & FlashBlade

Today Pure Storage announced new Purity software versions for both its FlashBlade (3.2) and FlashArray (6.1) products. These new versions will be delivered through its Evergreen program. The company is promising that the enhancements will deliver new features for every customer, furthering the company’s vision for a Modern Data Experience.

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NetApp Updates StorageGRID SG6060 Appliances

Recently NetApp announced an upgrade to its StorageGRID SG6060 appliances through a software upgrade. Through the newer NetApp StorageGRID 11.4 software, the company has been able to increase the flexibility of the SG6060. Aside from increased flexibility, the updated SG6060 now supports scaling out, making them larger.