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...
Scaling RAG with RAGOps and agents
COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. Whereas LLMs are typically trained with public...
Storage news ticker – January 6
Box CEO Aaron Levie posted a chart tracking historical storage costs on X/Twitter:
He said: "When we started Box, the hard drives in our servers were ~80 GB, and we...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage news ticker – December 20
This is the last article I will post until the new year. It has been a fascinating 2024 with storage dominated by SSD, HDD, and array developments, the need...
GPUDirect support added to Quantum Myriad
Quantum’s Myriad OS now supports Nvidia GPUDirect file access for fast GPU Server data feeding.
Myriad, announced in April 2023, is a containerized, unified, scale-out file and object storage software...
Micron boosted by AI-driven sales surge, but shares dip after forecast disappoints
Micron revenues surged to a first quarter record in its sixth consecutive growth quarter with AI a long-term revenue booster, despite posting an outlook that appeared to disappoint investors...
SK hynix joins high-capacity SSD club
SK hynix has matched its subsidiary Solidigm with a 60TB-class PS1012 SSD and says it will develop 122TB and 244TB follow-on drives to meet AI storage demand.
Ahn Hyun, President...
Databricks collects $10 billion in latest funding round
Databricks has attracted a $10 billion investment in a tenth funding round to pay for early investor and staff stock sales and allied taxes, new acquisitions, international go-to-market expansion...