At CES 2026, Sandisk introduced a consolidated naming and branding strategy for its internal NVMe SSD lineup. The new SANDISK Optimus family now serves as the umbrella brand for its client SSDs for gamers, creators, and professionals, replacing the legacy WD_BLACK and WD Blue labels in this segment. The portfolio is structured around three tiers:

DapuStor has introduced the R6060, a PCIe Gen5 enterprise QLC SSD with capacities scaling up to 245TB. The R6060 represents the company’s second-generation QLC platform and expands its high-capacity SSD lineup for data-intensive environments, including AI infrastructure and large-scale storage backends. The R6060 is available in E3.L and U.2 form factors, with the highest capacities

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

Veeam Software is entering a new phase in its strategic partnership with HPE, focusing on integrated solutions that simplify data resilience across hybrid and modern application environments. The joint portfolio targets enterprises that require reliable protection, quick recovery, and ease of operation across virtualized, containerized, and cloud workloads. From Veeam’s perspective, trust, resilience, and availability

MinIO has introduced two new subscription tiers for MinIO AIStor, Free and Enterprise Lite, expanding its portfolio beyond the existing AIStor Enterprise offering. The goal is to give organizations more flexibility in how they stand up an object-based data foundation for AI, whether they are in early experimentation or operating mission-critical, large-scale AI in production.

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

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU is now generally available, bringing Blackwell-class compute to a broader range of professional desktops. Targeted at technical users building and deploying agentic and generative AI, the new configuration addresses memory-constrained workflows that have outgrown prior-generation workstation GPUs. By complementing the existing RTX PRO 5000 48GB model, the

NVIDIA has announced two significant moves targeting high-performance computing and AI: the acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, and the launch of the Nemotron 3 family of open models, data, and tools for multi-agent AI. Together, these efforts reinforce NVIDIA’s position across HPC, generative AI, and enterprise AI infrastructure while maintaining

Vultr, AMD, and NetApp, all members of the Vultr Cloud Alliance, have developed a new reference architecture focused on data-intensive and AI workloads across hybrid and sovereign cloud environments. The design targets organizations that need to consolidate distributed data, accelerate AI, and enforce data locality and compliance controls without adding operational complexity. The architecture combines