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Veeam’s lucky thirteen has twenty updates - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/19/v...
Veeam’s lucky thirteen has twenty updates
Version 13 of Veeam’s Data Platform software ups the company’s game in data protection coverage, security, resilience AI assistance for admins and users. Veeam calls this a ground-breaking release and...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Veeam’s lucky thirteen has twenty updates - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/19/v...
Hitachi Vantara’s high-end block storage array news - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/19/h...
Hitachi Vantara's high-end block storage array news
HItachi Vantara has revamped its mainstream VSP One 5000 enterprise storage arrays from a hybrid SSD+HDD design to all-NVMe flash systems and new, more powerful high-end model. The updated range is i...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hitachi Vantara’s high-end block storage array news - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/19/h...
NetApp goes to court against former exec working for VAST Data - chrismellor.substack.com/p/netapp-goe...
NetApp goes to court against former exec working for VAST Data
Legal warfare against Red Stapler CEO
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November 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
NetApp goes to court against former exec working for VAST Data - chrismellor.substack.com/p/netapp-goe...
Dell pushes Azure PowerScale portation, puts PowerStore in Azure Local private cloud - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/d...
Dell pushes Azure PowerScale portation, puts PowerStore in Azure Local private cloud
Dell’s PowerScale filesystem storage is available as a managed service from Azure, and its PowerStore block storage is an option for Microsoft’s Azure Local product. PowerStore is Dell’s unified file ...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Dell pushes Azure PowerScale portation, puts PowerStore in Azure Local private cloud - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/d...
Azure gets VAST’s AI OS as VAST builds out global AI operations data fabric - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/a...
Azure gets VAST’s AI OS as VAST builds out global AI operations data fabric
VAST Data’s AI OS software stack has been ported to Azure and will be available as a managed service. The AI OS is composed of a stack of data services; DataSpace, DataBase, DataStore, DataEngine, Age...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Azure gets VAST’s AI OS as VAST builds out global AI operations data fabric - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/a...
Dell's Project Lightning involves adding a proprietary client-side driver to PowerScale. See bootnote (2) - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/d...
Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel
Dell announced Project Lightning has parallelized PowerScale, to speed file read and write performance, along with more PowerScale and ObjectScale news, at SuperComputing 2025. Dell says it, with thes...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Dell's Project Lightning involves adding a proprietary client-side driver to PowerScale. See bootnote (2) - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/d...
DDN goes hard CORE - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/d...
DDN goes hard CORE
DDN is making a splash at SC25 by launching new systems and a unified CORE AI and HPC data plane covering its EXAScaler Lustre (file) and Infinia (object) storage systems, with new A1400X3i and A12200...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
DDN goes hard CORE - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/d...
VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/v...
VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon
TACC’s Horizon supercomputer is using VAST Data online storage, a Dell caching archive front end, Versity software, and Spectra Logic offline tape storage to hold its data. TACC, the Texas Advanced Co...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/v...
Positive change signs in Quantum’s second quarter results - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/p...
Positive change signs in Quantum’s second quarter results
The loss-making ship that is Quantum is steering towards calmer financial waters, according to profit and loss accounts for Q2 of its fiscal 2026. Revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 2025, wer...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Positive change signs in Quantum’s second quarter results - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/18/p...
Hammerspace boosts AI data access performance three ways - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/h...
Hammerspace boosts AI data access performance three ways
Hammerspace has accelerated its data orchestrating platform software with faster and more scalable metadata reads, and better data placement in a GPU server’s directly-attached storage drives. The com...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Hammerspace boosts AI data access performance three ways - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/h...
VAST Data storage to star in Taiwan AI Factory - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/v...
VAST Data storage to star in Taiwan AI Factory
GMI Cloud’s AI Factory datacenter in Taiwan will use VAST Data storage to feed data to 7,000 Blackwell GPUs.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
VAST Data storage to star in Taiwan AI Factory - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/v...
Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/d...
Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel
Dell announced Project Lightning has parallelized PowerScale, to speed file read and write performance, along with more PowerScale and ObjectScale news, at SuperComputing 2025. Dell says it, with thes...
blocksandfiles.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Dell PowerScale gets struck by lightning and goes parallel - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/17/d...
FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/f...
FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost
FMC, a Dresden, Germany-based fabless Ferro-Electric Memory company, has raised €100 million ($116.2 million) in C-round funding to take its FERAM chip technology into AI datacenters and replace DRAM ...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/f...
MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/m...
MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy
MinIO is combining its AIStor object software with Supermicro Intel Xeon 6 servers and Solidigm SSDs.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/m...
Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/q...
Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals
Quantum has sped up part-object retrieval from its ActiveScale tape backend with a Ranged Restore feature.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/q...
Commvault Shift event audience gets security and protection hybrid cloud news blitz - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/c...
Commvault Shift event audience gets security and protection hybrid cloud news blitz – Blocks and Files
The integration of security and data protection across the on-premises, public clouds and SaaS area at Commvault is getting broader and deeper, and attendees at its Shift Cloud Summit event were left ...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Commvault Shift event audience gets security and protection hybrid cloud news blitz - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/c...
Druva extends Microsoft cloud protection lineup - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/d...
Druva extends Microsoft cloud protection lineup – Blocks and Files
Druva is announcing five additional Microsoft cloud protections covering Azure, Entra ID, Teams, and Dynamics 365 ERP.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Druva extends Microsoft cloud protection lineup - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/d...
Gimme your public cloud data! CoreWeave launches zero egress cost push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/c...
CoreWeave launches ‘zero egress’ push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds – Blocks and Files
CoreWeave wants customers to pull their AI-relevant unstructured data out of the hyperscalers and into its own facilities.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Gimme your public cloud data! CoreWeave launches zero egress cost push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/c...
Gimme your public cloud data! CoreWeave launches zero egress cost push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/c...
CoreWeave launches ‘zero egress’ push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds – Blocks and Files
CoreWeave wants customers to pull their AI-relevant unstructured data out of the hyperscalers and into its own facilities.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Gimme your public cloud data! CoreWeave launches zero egress cost push to pry AI workloads off the big clouds - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/c...
Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3 - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/b...
Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3 – Blocks and Files
Backblaze’s monthly disk drive stats tell a different story this month with odd failure rate rises Cloud storage supplier Backblaze puts out quarterly annual failure rate (AFR) statistics for its hund...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Backblaze reports disk drive failure rates for Q3 - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/b...
LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/l...
LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut – Blocks and Files
The Linear Tape Open consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10 raw capacity upgrade to 40 TB.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/13/l...
Write about for it on ... The ... Regi...... :-)
This was pretty interesting, hearing how the small team behind the 8-bit BBC Acorn computer went from specifying ULA chip designs to designing the early Arm CPU series from scratch using BBC BASIC
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From Acorn to ARM with Professor Steve Furber MBE
YouTube video by The Retro Collective
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November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Write about for it on ... The ... Regi...... :-)
pNFS getting bigger - PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/12/p...
PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server – Blocks and Files
All-flash and software-defined storage business PEAK:AIO has a single-node metadata server technology which it has evolved into a multi-node, scale-out product using open-source parallel NFS code. The...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
pNFS getting bigger - PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/12/p...
Qumulo comment added to "HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software" - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/07/h...
HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software – Blocks and Files
HPE has announced internally and to its channel partners that it will be stopping the sale of Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software. Sales quoting will end on Jan 31, with orders no longer accepted from M...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Qumulo comment added to "HPE stops selling Qumulo, Scality and WEKA software" - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/07/h...
Pure Storage Data Stream is an AI pipeline data dream - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/11/p...
Pure Storage Data Stream is an AI pipeline data dream – Blocks and Files
Pure Storage has introduced Data Stream, a GPU-centric, AI-powered, integrated hardware and software stack for AI data pipelines. Data Stream is a software suite running on FlashBlade//S and Nvidia Bl...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Pure Storage Data Stream is an AI pipeline data dream - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/11/p...