Today, Dell announced several new solutions and reference designs for high-performance computing at ISC High Performance 2019. The ISC High Performance conference has been running annually in Europe since 1986 and was previously known as the International Supercomputing Conference.

Today, WekaIO, announced updates to its software platform to provide security functionality for multi-use enterprise high performance computing (HPC). WekaIO is two years old, and we covered their initial launch, which is still the core of their offerings, a cloud-native scalable file system. More recently we covered their announcement that they had raised $31.7 million in additional

Today Western Digital announced the launch of Zoned Storage. Zoned Storage is an initiative that leverages new technology to create more efficient Zettabyte-scale architectures for data centers while helping to maintain more competitive TCO. The company also launched a developer site they will be hosting that includes open-source, standards-based tools and resources. 

Kaminario announced that it is expanding its Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) business with three new offerings along with a unified licensing framework. These new offerings included Kaminario Storage Utility consumption-based hardware acquisition, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), and Kaminario for public cloud. The company states that these new offerings are ideal for its customer base that

Microsoft and Oracle announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. This gives users the ability to combine the technology of both services for instance Azure services, like Analytics and AI, can seamlessly connect to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database.

This week NetApp released the AFF C190 all flash storage array. Targeted at the needs of SMBs, the AFF C190 is designed to be a partner-led offering that enables NetApp to be more competitive down market where their existing storage arrays for the midmarket, like the A200 and A300, are simply too much. The NetApp AFF C190

Datera announced what would be in the 3.3 version of its Data Services Platform. Datera was founded in June 2013 and provides data storage software and systems. The company posted a remarkable 400% growth in the first quarter of 2019, driven mainly by partner sales. This rapid growth is even more impressive coming on top

The Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series is a family of storage arrays designed to meet the needs of the entry storage market, which is generally thought of in the sub-$25K price band. However, the PowerVault ME4 Series is exceedingly flexible. The system can be deployed in an HDD configuration to meet the needs of the entry market or edge with

GIGABYTE, a well-regarded manufacturer of computer-related hardware components and systems, has jumped into the data storage market by partnering with Bigtera to offer a unique high-performance, software-defined storage solution. GIGABYTE supplies the hardware, pairing with Bigtera's VirtualStor software platform to offer a range of storage appliances to meet different capacity and performance requirements. While most people will be familiar with