Microsoft bolsters Azure infra with Fungible-derived DPU
At its Ignite event, Microsoft announced the Azure Boost data processing unit (DPU) to accelerate storage and networking efficiency in the Azure public cloud.
DPUs were a storage industry phenomenon...
Qumulo lays claim to ‘fastest’ enterprise cloud data platform title after hitting 1 TB/sec
Qumulo says its Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS achieved over a terabyte per second throughput and more than one million IOPS using standard Network File System clients.
The company's Core...
Dell brings APEX file and protection services to Azure
Dell will provide APEX file and protection services to Microsoft's Azure cloud customers and supply AI services for Copilot use.
APEX is a set of compute, storage, and networking services...
Quantum wants to claw its way back to profitability – and growth
Analysis. Quantum has been wading through the mire. After two reverse stock splits, a hyperscaler tape system buying stop, a second set of financial reporting problems, and an abrupt...
Scaling the AI frontier and powering the future of innovation
COMMISSIONED: What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI - processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? The short answer is: both.
But having the right infrastructure is the...
Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework
Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range.
The main storage system suppliers are all scrambling to provide customers with reference architecture-type frameworks that place...
DDN supplying storage for xAI’s Colossus supercomputer
DDN storage is being used in an expansion phase of Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus supercomputer.
Grok is xAI’s name for its large language model, while Colossus is the GPU server-based...
Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//S500 gains Nvidia SuperPOD certification
Pure Storage has announced certification of its FlashBlade//S500 storage with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD along with a new GenAI Pod system for inferencing.
The FlashBlade//S500 is a high-end, performance-optimized FlashBlade system,...
DDN boosts A³I IO speeds and IOPS for Nvidia AI workloads
DDN announced a fourth generation of the A³I (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI) system at SC24, increasing both its sequential data access and random read IOPS.
The A³I systems are storage systems...
Cloudian integrates Nvidia GPUDirect acceleration for object storage
Cloudian announced its integration with Nvidia Magnum IO GPUDirect storage technology, using RDMA parallel transfer, and putting file and object storage data on an equal footing in serving data...
Dell expands lakehouse and AI server range at SC24
Dell is extending its AI Factory range at the Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) event in Atlanta with Data Lakehouse and AI-focused server announcements.
It says the Data Lakehouse updates provide modern...
AI processing speeds continue to improve in MLPerf Training
MLCommons has revealed new results for MLPerf Training v4.1, which the org says highlights "the strong alignment between the benchmark suite and the current direction of the AI industry.”...