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QStar Technologies Announces Global ArchiveSpace™

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

QStar Technologies Inc. , a world leader in active archive software for tape libraries, today announces QStar Global ArchiveSpace ™, a new multi-node gateway software solution that cost-effectively supports the massive archive needs of high performance computing (HPC), AI/ML, hyperscalers, media and entertainment and video surveillance environments, looking to simplify, store and protect data for the long-term using the world’s largest tape libraries.

Key Points: 
  • QStar Technologies Inc. , a world leader in active archive software for tape libraries, today announces QStar Global ArchiveSpace ™, a new multi-node gateway software solution that cost-effectively supports the massive archive needs of high performance computing (HPC), AI/ML, hyperscalers, media and entertainment and video surveillance environments, looking to simplify, store and protect data for the long-term using the world’s largest tape libraries.
  • (Graphic: QStar Technologies)
    Global ArchiveSpace™ creates a multi-node Windows or Linux based archive solution using Global Namespaces for SMB shares, NFS mounts or S3 buckets.
  • Global ArchiveSpace™ is an extension of QStar Archive Manager , so users can upgrade their existing licenses to take advantage of the improved resilience and performance this solution provides.
  • Global namespace facilitates multi-nodes to read / write in parallel, so any node can access any media through any tape drive.

Titan.ium Platform’s Service Communication Proxy Streamlines 5G Core Networks for Mobile Operators

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Monday, April 8, 2024

LOWELL, Mass., April 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Titan.ium Platform today announced its Service Communication Proxy (SCP) for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) is now available worldwide to address the challenges of managing large geographically-distributed 5G core signaling networks.

Key Points: 
  • LOWELL, Mass., April 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Titan.ium Platform today announced its Service Communication Proxy (SCP) for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) is now available worldwide to address the challenges of managing large geographically-distributed 5G core signaling networks.
  • “With Titan.ium's SCP, we are enabling Mobile Network Operators to realize optimal performance and scalability in their 5G core networks,” said Kurt Daniel, CEO of Titan.ium Platform.
  • By simplifying core network routing topology, it is estimated that SCP can improve the efficiency of NFs by 30%.
  • To learn more, register for the webinar , on April 23 at 10 am Eastern/4 pm CET, which will cover the components of Titan.ium's 5G core solution, highlighting the Network Repository Function (NRF), Service Communication Proxy (SCP), and Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP).

VAST Data Unveils New Data Platform Architecture for the AI Factory

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today unveiled a new AI cloud architecture designed to deliver unprecedented levels of performance, quality of service, zero-trust security and space/cost/power efficiency for the AI factory.

Key Points: 
  • Remote-First-Company | NEW YORK CITY, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VAST Data , the AI data platform company, today unveiled a new AI cloud architecture designed to deliver unprecedented levels of performance, quality of service, zero-trust security and space/cost/power efficiency for the AI factory.
  • Building on NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU ) technology, VAST Data’s parallel system architecture makes it possible to disaggregate the entirety of VAST’s operating system natively into AI computing machinery, transforming supercomputers into AI data engines.
  • Moreover, by removing multiple layers of x86 hardware and networking from VAST’s network-attached Data Platform infrastructure, this new AI factory architecture dramatically reduces the cost, footprint, and power associated with AI data services.
  • Enhancing Zero-Trust Security: This new AI factory architecture ensures that data and data management remain protected and isolated from host operating systems.

Nasuni Launches Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 to Deliver High Performance at the Edge

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

BOSTON, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nasuni, a leading hybrid cloud storage solution, announces the general availability of Nasuni Edge for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), a cloud-native, distributed solution that allows enterprises to accelerate data access and delivery times while ensuring low-latency access that is crucial for edge workloads, including cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications, all through a single, unified platform.

Key Points: 
  • Amazon S3 is an object storage service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
  • The potential of Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 becomes evident in its ability to boost performance, speeding software build distribution to teams around the globe.
  • Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 enhances data access in the following ways:
    Local performance at the edge: Customers can now deploy Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 wherever high performance with low latency is required, in AWS Local Zones, on AWS Outposts, or in customers' self-managed on-premises environments.
  • With Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, enterprises can support legacy workloads and take advantage of modern Amazon S3-based applications," said David Grant, President, Nasuni.

Nasuni Launches Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 to Deliver High Performance at the Edge

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

BOSTON, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nasuni, a leading hybrid cloud storage solution, announces the general availability of Nasuni Edge for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), a cloud-native, distributed solution that allows enterprises to accelerate data access and delivery times while ensuring low-latency access that is crucial for edge workloads, including cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications, all through a single, unified platform.

Key Points: 
  • Amazon S3 is an object storage service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
  • The potential of Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 becomes evident in its ability to boost performance, speeding software build distribution to teams around the globe.
  • Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 enhances data access in the following ways:
    Local performance at the edge: Customers can now deploy Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 wherever high performance with low latency is required, in AWS Local Zones, on AWS Outposts, or in customers' self-managed on-premises environments.
  • With Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, enterprises can support legacy workloads and take advantage of modern Amazon S3-based applications," said David Grant, President, Nasuni.

U.S. FORECLOSURE ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO SEE AN ANNUAL INCREASE

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

IRVINE, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, today released its February 2024 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 32,938 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions – down 1 percent from last month but up 8 percent from a year ago.

Key Points: 
  • "The annual uptick in U.S. foreclosure activity hints at shifting dynamics within the housing market," said Rob Barber, CEO at ATTOM.
  • Highest foreclosure rates in South Carolina, Delaware, and Florida
    Nationwide, one in every 4,279 housing units had a foreclosure filing in February 2024.
  • Those states that saw the greatest number of foreclosures starts in February 2024 included: Florida (2,732 foreclosure starts); California (2,730 foreclosure starts); Texas (2,694 foreclosure starts); New York (1,289 foreclosure starts); and Ohio (1,097 foreclosure starts).
  • Among those major metropolitan statistical areas with a population of at least 200,000, those with the greatest number of foreclosure starts in February 2024, included: New York, NY (1,367 foreclosure starts); Houston, TX (998 foreclosure starts); Los Angeles, CA (808 foreclosure starts); Chicago, IL (792 foreclosure starts); and Miami, FL (777 foreclosure starts).

Flow Beverage Corp. Completes Additional Private Placement

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Flow Beverage Corp. (TSX:FLOW; OTCQX:FLWBF) (“Flow” or the “Company”) today announced it has completed the previously announced additional non-brokered private placement of 5,577,000 subordinate voting shares (“SV Shares”) at a price of $0.28 per SV Share to RI Flow LLC (the “Investor”) for gross proceeds of $1,561,560 (the “Additional Offering”), following the initial closing on January 30, 2024 of the non-brokered private placement of 6,473,000 SV Shares at a price of $0.28 per SV Share to the Investor for gross proceeds of $1,812,440 (the “Initial Offering”).

Key Points: 
  • Flow Beverage Corp. (TSX:FLOW; OTCQX:FLWBF) (“Flow” or the “Company”) today announced it has completed the previously announced additional non-brokered private placement of 5,577,000 subordinate voting shares (“SV Shares”) at a price of $0.28 per SV Share to RI Flow LLC (the “Investor”) for gross proceeds of $1,561,560 (the “Additional Offering”), following the initial closing on January 30, 2024 of the non-brokered private placement of 6,473,000 SV Shares at a price of $0.28 per SV Share to the Investor for gross proceeds of $1,812,440 (the “Initial Offering”).
  • The Investor is affiliated with NFS Leasing Canada Ltd., a lender to Flow, and its founder Clifford L. Rucker.
  • The total proceeds raised from the Initial Offering and the Additional Offering are $3,374,000.
  • The gross proceeds from the Additional Offering will be used by the Company for working capital and general corporate purposes.

NFS Leasing, Inc. Sets Company Record for Year-Over-Year Originations in 2023, Increasing Vendor Partner NBV by 250%

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

NFS Leasing, Inc. , a privately-held leader in equipment finance across the U.S. and Canada, today announced that it achieved 8% year-over-year growth of originations in 2023.

Key Points: 
  • NFS Leasing, Inc. , a privately-held leader in equipment finance across the U.S. and Canada, today announced that it achieved 8% year-over-year growth of originations in 2023.
  • “Our team's strength and the value we provide to our customers to support their growth are highlighted by the achievement of our growth in originations, which surpassed the industry’s average," said Ashley Whyman, President of NFS Leasing.
  • “NFS Leasing remains committed to providing innovative, personalized, and flexible financing solutions to businesses that are unable to obtain funding from traditional financing sources.”
    Drivers of its growth include 250% growth in vendor new business volume and year-over-year growth in new customer originations.
  • “As we mark another year of record growth and expansion, our inspiration is fueled by the stories and achievements of our customers and partners,” said Dana Calumby, Chief Financial Officer of NFS Leasing.

StorPool Improves Support for VMware Alternative Apache CloudStack

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

StorPool Storage today announced that it has extended the capabilities of its Apache CloudStack integration in light of skyrocketing demand from VMware customers.

Key Points: 
  • StorPool Storage today announced that it has extended the capabilities of its Apache CloudStack integration in light of skyrocketing demand from VMware customers.
  • CloudStack is becoming increasingly popular with VMware customers looking to reduce vendor lock-in, optimize the cost of their IT environments, and future-proof their businesses.
  • StorPool extends the HA feature by adding a mechanism that overcomes the NFS primary storage heartbeat dependency to extend KVM host high availability for non-NFS storage in Apache CloudStack environments.
  • Future enhancements will support KVM host HA for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) deployments with CloudStack compute and StorPool storage running concurrently on the same servers.

Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

A Hyperscale NAS architecture provides the best architecture for training effective models, speeding time-to-market and time-to-insight, and ultimately deriving business value from data.

Key Points: 
  • A Hyperscale NAS architecture provides the best architecture for training effective models, speeding time-to-market and time-to-insight, and ultimately deriving business value from data.
  • “These organizations require the performance and cost-effective scale of HPC parallel file systems and must meet enterprise requirements for ease of use and data security.
  • Hyperscale NAS is a fundamentally different NAS architecture that allows organizations to use the best of HPC technology without compromising enterprise standards.”
    The Hyperscale NAS architecture has now been proven to be the fastest file system in the world for enterprise and web-scale AI training.
  • It's the system used for training large language models (LLMs) and is now being used in businesses for computing with GPUs and training generative AI models.