Hydrolix and Mux team up to boost video performance at media firms

Antony Savvas -
Streaming data lake company Hydrolix is supporting video monitoring firm Mux to deliver improved data observability to developers and content…
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Storage news ticker - 17 October 2024

Chris Mellor -
Governance and data quality consultant Agile Lab ran a data management survey at Big Data London in September 2024. It revealed the…

Arcserve unveils UDP 10 with improved backup, ransomware protection

Antony Savvas -
Unified data resilience player Arcserve has taken the wraps off UDP 10, a data protection solution that offers backup, replication,…

Storage hacks for hungry GPUs

Kelley Pargmann, Dell Technologies -
COMMISSIONED: In the fast-paced world of AI, GPUs are often hailed as the quiet powerhouse driving innovation. They’re the brainpower…

Rubrik adds moat around Microsoft 365 data for Copilot use

Chris Mellor -
Rubrik has introduced its Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for Microsoft 365 Copilot, which it says identifies and controls access…

UltiHash pitches storage aiming to cut AI data bloat

Chris Mellor -
German startup UltiHash has made its newly developed object storage generally available as a data store for AI-focused lakehouses. This…

Hammerspace and Parallel Works simplify AI/HPC workload orchestration

Chris Mellor -
Hammerspace and Parallel Works are collaborating on a combined offering enabling IT infrastructure, research computing, and AI teams to orchestrate compute,…

Amazon zeroes out ETL for shifting Aurora and DynamoDB data into Redshift

Chris Mellor -
Amazon is making it easier to analyze transactional data held in its Aurora PostgreSQL and DynamoDB databases by avoiding the…

Dell expands AI factory scope with PowerScale upgrade

Chris Mellor -
Dell has enhanced PowerScale scale-out clustered file system arrays with full stack components for AI factory workloads. We have written…

Databricks partners with AWS to accelerate GenAI development

Chris Mellor -
AI-focused lakehouse supplier Databricks is partnering with Amazon so customers can develop customized GenAI apps using Databricks-held data, Amazon Bedrock…

Kioxia speeds up RocksDB with Flexible Data Placement SSD

Chris Mellor -
Kioxia says it has accelerated RocksDB performance 1.8x and increased an SSD’s endurance 300 percent by using Flexible Data Placement…

Western Digital matches Seagate’s 32 TB HAMR capacity with 11-platter ePMR HDDs

Chris Mellor -
Western Digital has matched Seagate’s 32 TB HAMR disc capacity by adding an 11th platter to its conventional disk drives.…

Stanford team proposes hybrid gain cell memory to boost GPU performance

Chris Mellor -
A Stanford University team is researching gain cell memory, combining SRAM and DRAM features, to speed GPU memory data access,…

The role of Slough in AI infrastructure

Seamus Dunne, Managing Director, Digital Realty in the UK and Ireland -
PARTNER CONTENT: The UK is at a crossroads. We have the talent, the innovation, and the investment in artificial intelligence…

Hydrolix pipes in more data lake growth via key partners

Antony Savvas -
Streaming data lake supplier Hydrolix has reported a 12x increase in customer growth over the last 12 months as it…

Microsoft and AWS lead Gartner report on distributed HCI market

Chris Mellor -
The top two public clouds – Amazon's and Microsoft's – lead the distributed HCI market in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (MQ)…

MLPerf storage benchmark: A user guide from the maker

Chris Mellor -
The latest version of the MLPerf Storage benchmark requires careful study to compare vendor single and multi-node systems across the…

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