Microsoft bolsters Azure infra with Fungible-derived DPU

Chris Mellor -
At its Ignite event, Microsoft announced the Azure Boost data processing unit (DPU) to accelerate storage and networking efficiency in…
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HPE announces object storage software for Alletra MP

Chris Mellor -
The HPE Alletra file and block storage portfolio has gained object storage with the Alletra MP X10000 for large-scale unstructured…

Qumulo lays claim to 'fastest' enterprise cloud data platform title after hitting 1 TBps

Chris Mellor -
Qumulo says its Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS achieved over 1 TBps throughput and more than one million IOPS using…

Dell brings APEX file and protection services to Azure

Chris Mellor -
Dell will provide APEX file and protection services to Microsoft's Azure cloud customers and supply AI services for Copilot use.…

Quantum wants to claw its way back to profitability – and growth

Chris Mellor -
Analysis. Quantum has been wading through the mire. After two reverse stock splits, a hyperscaler tape system buying stop, a…

Scaling the AI frontier and powering the future of innovation

Richard Greenwalt, Dell Technologies -
COMMISSIONED: What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI - processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? The short…

WEKA unveils WARRP reference architecture and previews Nvidia Grace-powered storage cluster

Chris Mellor -
WEKA is previewing its parallel file system working on a storage server cluster powered by Nvidia’s Grace Superchips, and has developed…

Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework

Chris Mellor -
Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range. The main storage system suppliers are all…

DDN supplying storage for xAI’s Colossus supercomputer

Chris Mellor -
DDN storage is being used in an expansion phase of Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus supercomputer. Grok is xAI’s name for…

Pure Storage's FlashBlade//S500 gains Nvidia SuperPOD certification

Chris Mellor -
Pure Storage has announced certification of its FlashBlade//S500 storage with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD along with a new GenAI Pod system…

DDN boosts A³I IO speeds and IOPS for Nvidia AI workloads

Chris Mellor -
DDN announced a fourth generation of the A³I (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) system at SC24, increasing both its sequential data access…

Cloudian integrates Nvidia GPUDirect acceleration for object storage

Chris Mellor -
Cloudian announced its integration with Nvidia Magnum IO GPUDirect storage technology, using RDMA parallel transfer, and putting file and object…

Dell expands lakehouse and AI server range at SC24

Chris Mellor -
Dell is extending its AI Factory range at the Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) event in Atlanta with Data Lakehouse and AI-focused…

AI processing speeds continue to improve in MLPerf Training

Antony Savvas -
MLCommons has revealed new results for MLPerf Training v4.1, which the org says highlights "the strong alignment between the benchmark…

Arcitecta and Wasabi team up to simplify cloud storage

Antony Savvas -
Data orchestrator Arcitecta is partnering with Wasabi Technologies to allow organizations to integrate Wasabi’s “hot” cloud storage into their workflows.…

Hitachi Vantara becomes Hammerspace’s first major storage supplier partner

Chris Mellor -
Hitachi Vantara and Hammerspace have made a deal to combine multi-source data orchestration facilities from Hammerspace with Hitachi Vantara’s enterprise-level…

PEAK:AIO names new leadership, claims US growth

Antony Savvas -
PEAK:AIO, the UK-headquartered software-defined storage platform built for AI and GPU computing, has named a new CEO amid a claimed…

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