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News•Feb 25, 2026
Scality RING Becomes Back-End Object Store for WEKA NeuralMesh
Scality and WEKA announced that Scality RING will serve as the back‑end object store for WEKA’s NeuralMesh high‑performance AI file system. The partnership leverages NeuralMesh’s SSD‑based front‑end with RING’s cost‑efficient, disk‑based object tier, delivering up to ten times faster performance than traditional S3 interfaces. Tests show up to 20 % lower infrastructure costs, allowing enterprises to scale AI and HPC pipelines economically. The solution is available now via a simple HTTPS connector, requiring no code changes.
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News•Feb 19, 2026
How AI Is Forcing Storage Back Into the Enterprise Conversation
Early enterprise AI projects allocated most budgets to compute, treating storage as a leftover expense. As AI moves from experimentation to production, organizations discover that data readiness and storage performance, especially for retrieval‑augmented generation and inference, are the real constraints....
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News•Feb 19, 2026
StorONE Arrays Adopt External Flash JBODs in Flash Program
StorONE introduced a 9x ROI on Flash program that pairs its S1 disk‑drive array with external SSD JBODs, creating an automatic two‑tier system that places hot data on flash and warm or cold data on HDDs. The solution leverages the...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Platters: WD New Disk Drive Tech Hits Lucky 14
Western Digital announced a 14‑platter hard‑disk drive architecture that boosts capacity by roughly 27% over its current 11‑platter models, enabling 40 TB drives in 2026 and paving the way for 44 TB HAMR units later this year and 100 TB drives by 2029....
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News•Feb 17, 2026
Pure Storage Wants to Demolish Your Storage Silos
Pure Storage’s Cloud service extends its Purity operating environment to AWS and Azure, delivering a single‑pane‑of‑glass storage layer that feels identical to on‑prem FlashArray. By abstracting the underlying cloud hardware, the platform offers native APIs, replication, and security while adding...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
Dell VP Says Discrete Beats Disaggregated Storage for AI
Dell VP David Noy announced that discrete storage architectures outperform disaggregated designs for large‑scale AI workloads, reversing Dell’s earlier promotion of disaggregation. He cites PowerScale’s integrated controller‑drive chassis as delivering lower rack space, fewer switches, and reduced power consumption. The...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
SK Hynix Proposes HBM and HBF Hybrid for LLM Inference
SK Hynix unveiled H³, a hybrid architecture that couples high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) with high‑bandwidth flash (HBF) on a single interposer to accelerate large‑language‑model (LLM) inference. HBF provides up to 16× the capacity of HBM while maintaining comparable bandwidth, serving as...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
Cubbit Powers Swiss Cantonal-Level Sovereign Cloud for Ailanto
IT integrator Ailanto announced a sovereign cloud service for Swiss organizations built on Cubbit’s DS3 Composer software‑defined object storage. The offering launches with 1 PB of capacity hosted in Swiss‑based data centres and will expand later in 2026. It provides S3‑compatible,...
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News•Feb 12, 2026
Xinnor's Alternative Software RAID Filer for AI
Software RAID vendor Xinnor unveiled xiNAS, an all‑flash NAS filer built on its xiRAID stack, XFS, and NFS over RDMA, targeting AI, HPC and data‑intensive workloads. In a Supermicro validation, a single node achieved up to 74.5 GB/s sequential read and...
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Deals•Feb 5, 2026
VAST Data Announces Planned Funding Round
VAST Data, a high‑performance data storage provider, announced plans to raise a new funding round, giving early stockholders an opportunity to cash out. The round is intended to provide liquidity for early investors, though details on size, valuation, and participants...
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