HoloMem's drop-in holographic tape drive for LTO tape libraries

Chris Mellor -
UK startup HoloMem is developing a ribbon-based cartridge and drive that uses multi-layer holographic storage with a 50+ year life…
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Employees prefer to keep quiet when hit by a cyberattack

Chris Mellor -
A private Cohesity survey found that office workers in the UK would keep quiet about being targeted in a cyber-attack.…

IDC brings out AI-Ready Data Storage Infrastructure paper

Chris Mellor -
An IDC paper discussing AI-Ready Data Storage Infrastructure (AI-RDSI) has landed and is being distributed by Hammerspace. The paper is…

Kioxia UFS 4.1 flash promises smoother AI app performance

Chris Mellor -
Kioxia is sampling the latest UFS v4.1 embedded smartphone and tablet flash with faster downloads and smoother app performance for…

Komprise: Metadata is the key to smarter AI and data governance

Chris Mellor -
Better unstructured data management is the reason Komprise was founded in 2014 by CEO Kumar Goswami along with president and…

Datafy banks $14M to slash AWS block storage bills

Chris Mellor -
AWS block storage cost-cutting startup Datafy has secured $14 million in new funding, bringing total investment to $20 million. Datafy’s…

Big Blue’s devs flood watsonx with incremental updates

Chris Mellor -
IBM’s developers are adding features to watsonx.data and other parts of its watsonx AI software to help customers build and…

Quantum and Chief Revenue Officer to part ways

Chris Mellor -
Henk Jan Spanjaard, Quantum Corp's Chief Revenue Officer, will be the latest exec to leave the company, according to an…

Commvault promotes partner chief, integrates with Platform9

Chris Mellor -
Commvault has shuffled its leadership team and struck a new partnership with private cloud supplier Platform9. Alan Atkinson Alan Atkinson…

Google Cloud takes a shine to Lustre

Chris Mellor -
Google Cloud Managed Lustre, based on DDN’s EXAScaler software, is now generally available. This project was first announced in April…

The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience

Stephen Manley, CTO, Druva -
Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline. Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes.…

WEKA ports NeuralMesh to a GPU server’s local SSDs

Chris Mellor -
WEKA is turning a set of GPU server’s local SSDs into a unified high-performance storage pool for faster AI training…

Cloudian bakes Milvus vector database into HyperStore for AI inference

Chris Mellor -
Object storage supplier Cloudian is adding Milvus vector database functionality into its HyperStore software to provide AI inference capabilities as…

Graid going for Nvidia RAID gold

Chris Mellor -
Graid occupies a technology niche with its Nvidia GPU-powered RAID cards and is powering ahead with a development roadmap featuring…

Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL

Chris Mellor -
Volumez block storage for PostgreSQL on AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers more transactions per second at lower…

Nvidia extends LLM memory with tiered KV caching and Dynamo engine

Chris Mellor -
Nvidia GPUs store vectors as key-value pairs in a large language model (LLM) memory cache – KV cache – which…

goHardDrive RMA customer details vulnerability

Chris Mellor -
Developer Michael Lynch returned a disk drive to supplier goHardDrive after finding a flaw in its Return Merchant Authorization (RMA)…

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