AI data companies dominate new unicorn list from BestBrokers
Companies built around AI data systems dominate entrants to the latest unicorn list compiled by broking comparison site BestBrokers, with Databricks and WEKA mentioned.
Unicorns are defined as privately owned...
Lenovo goes shopping, plonks Infinidat in the basket
Lenovo is buying privately-owned enterprise block array storage supplier Infinidat for an undisclosed amount.
Systems supplier Lenovo's storage line-up is centered on small and medium enterprises. It was built up...
UnifabriX on how tech can tear down AI memory wall
UnifabriX claims its CXL-connected external MAX memory device can deliver substantial AI processing performance improvements.
The company’s MAX memory technology was described in an earlier article. UnifabriX CEO Ronen Hyatt...
NetApp offloads Spot, Cloudcheckr to Flexera
NetApp is selling its Spot and CloudCheckr CloudOps portfolios to FinOps business Flexera for a reported $100 million.
Spot provides ways to find and use the lowest cost public cloud...
Informatica deepens Databricks dealings
Data integration and management supplier Informatica has strengthened the integration of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, including support for AI Functions.
Databricks supplies an...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...
Can synthetic data help scale AI’s data wall?
COMMISSIONED: As with any emerging technology, implementing generative AI large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy and it’s totally fair to look side-eyed at anyone who suggests otherwise.From issues identifying...
Panmnesia snags award for GPU CXL memory expansion
A Panmnesia scheme to bulk up a GPU’s memory by adding fast CXL-accessed external memory to a unified virtual memory space has won a CES Innovation award.
Panmnesia says large-scale...
Cloudian becomes a Hammerspace GDP storage citizen
Object storage supplier Cloudian is partnering unstructured data orchestrator Hammerspace by making its HyperStore object storage a repository used by Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform’s parallel NFS-based file system.
The Global...
Blackstone invests $300M in DDN to boost AI storage business
Private equity firm Blackstone is investing $300 million in privately held DDN, valuing the company at $5 billion and aiming to help develop its AI-related storage business.
According to DDN...
AI data pipelines could use a hand from our features, says Komprise
Interview. AI training and inferencing needs access to datasets. The dataset contents will need to be turned into vector-embedded data for GenAI large language models (LLMs) to work on...
Samsung says R&D expenses hit operating profit
The latest quarterly results from Samsung fell short of expectations as the company tries to claw its way into the profitable high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market where SK hynix has...