From RAG to fine-tuning, data management enriches AI results
COMMISSIONED: As an IT leader, you know that data management is one of the critical ingredients for cultivating successful AI initiatives. One does not simply walk into an AI...
FADU’s SSD controller edge: Multiple parallel PPUs
Profile: FADU is a fabless semiconductor company operating out of Seoul in Korea and specializing in SSD controllers and also drives. Jonmichael Hands, its Senior Director for Product Planning,...
Pinecone integrates AI inferencing with vector database
GenAI inferencing can now be run directly from the Pinecone vector database to improve retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Pinecone supplies a vector embedding database to be used by AI language models...
Nutanix getting GPUDirect ducks lined up
A Nutanix technical white paper confirms Nutanix will support AI foundation model training with distributed data set access and fast file data delivery to NVIDIA GPU servers.
Foundation models, also...
Samsung shuffles exec deck again amid AI chip ‘crisis’
Samsung Electronics has shaken up the leadership of its chip division for the second time this year, as it struggles against the competition in the AI data processing space.
Jun...
Amazon Web Services pledges cheaper and 12x faster AI speeds with Lustre storage
Scalable file storage service Amazon FSx for Lustre is promising GPU throughputs 12 times faster, to aid AI learning workloads and “reduce costs”.
To achieve this, says Amazon Web Services,...
PEAK:AIO targets underserved AI workloads with cost-effective storage
Interview: AI-focused storage startup PEAK:AIO talked about its recognition of small-scale datacenter AI processing needs in part one of a briefing. We continued the briefing with a deeper dive...
Nutanix beats forecast with 16% revenue growth for Q1 FY25
Nutanix revenues grew 16 percent year-on-year to $591 million as it comfortably beat its $575 million high point outlook.
It made a GAAP profit of $29.9 million in its first...
Why Hitachi Vantara partners with both Hammerspace and WEKA
Hitachi Vantara has agrrements with Hammerspace and WEKA, two companies supplying fast file data delivery services. Why does it need both?
Hitachi Vantara became Hammerspace’s first major systems supplier earlier...
Commvault tops Forrester data resilience report again
Analyst house Forrester has issued a data resilience Wave report looking at nine suppliers, and Commvault pips Veritas to the lead position.
Forrester's Wave diagram shows a set of two...
Storage News Ticker – 26 November
45Drives has announced the Stornado F16, its most powerful storage server to date. It has a 2RU chassis with:
AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs, expandable to 4TB of memory,...
Hammerspace hammers MLPerf Storage benchmark results
Hammerspace claims it has set new records in the MLPerf Storage 1.0 benchmark with its Tier 0 storage beating DDN Lustre more than 16x at the same client count.
The...