IBM and Cohesity have collaborated on a solution that increases data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. IBM Storage Defender Solution combines both companies’ data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities.

In August 2022, VMware announced the release of vSAN 8 and the Express Storage Architecture (ESA), a new storage architecture within the vSAN platform that introduced improved performance, scalability, resilience, and simplicity with high-performance storage devices.

AMD’s new EPYC Embedded 9004 series processors have hit the market, scaling to an amazing 96 cores per socket. These “Zen 4” chips are aimed at industrial, networking, and storage uses and have a long seven-year availability.

Lenovo announced the launch of the ThinkStation PX, P7, and P5 advanced desktop workstations that use the latest Intel processors, supporting up to 120 cores and NVIDIA RTX professional graphics.

PEAK:AIO launched the latest version of its AI Data Server, doubling the performance of the previous version with 80GB/s from a single storage node and reducing the cost of ultra-performance AI data storage by up to 70 percent. PEAK:AIO provides a software-defined storage platform for artificial intelligence applications.

The Pure Storage DirectCompress Accelerator (DCA) compression card increases inline compression by 30%, enabling customers to store more data on their FlashArrays at a lower cost.

Supermicro has announced the latest addition to its high-performance, high-density petascale class all-flash NVMe server family. The company has expanded its storage solutions portfolio for intensive I/O workloads by introducing all-flash servers utilizing Gen5 EDSFF E3.S SSDs across multiple product lines. EDSFF isn’t new to Supermicro; they were one of the first to release commercial

Asigra has announced a SaaS-based backup platform designed to provide backup and recovery capabilities to SaaS applications like Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace. Asigra SaaSBACKUP, through API connectivity, can support SaaS applications with enterprise-class data protection to ensure business continuity.

During the past year, IBM has been changing its storage software portfolio to simplify navigating and understanding product offerings. To that end, IBM Spectrum becomes IBM Storage, reducing the number of products to a more manageable set focusing on software-defined, open, and consumable services.