Startup releases ‘self-defending’ SSD that protects data from ransomware attacks
Cyber-security startup Cigent Technology has built a "self-defending" Secure SSD which constantly checks the credentials of any access to data on the drive. The firm claims it can make...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...
Nvidia BlueField goes SuperPODDING – with composability in its sights
Analysis Nvidia has updated its SuperPOD GPU server for AI by adding BlueField DPU support to accelerate and secure access to data. DDN is the first Nvidia-certified SuperPOD-BlueField storage...
DDN ports EXAScaler storage software to Bluefield-2 DPU
DDN has demonstrated its EXAScaler storage controller software running on Nvidia’s BlueField-2 data processing units (DPUs) which replace the existing EXAScaler controllers and add a security layer to enhance...
Nvidia unveils BlueField 3 DPU. It’s much faster
Nvidia says its next-generation BlueField SmartNIC device, launched today, will deliver the most powerful software-defined networking, storage and cybersecurity acceleration capabilities for data centres.
Update: 13 April 2021. Updated Nvidia...
DDN speeds up AI storage system in a flash
DDN has upgraded its A³I artificial intelligence -dedicated storage system, using flash to speed data access, as well as improving system monitoring tools.
The systems now support all Nvidia...
Report: recommendation systems drive AI infrastructure initiatives
Promo What AI initiatives are companies investing in and what’s their underlying infrastructure? According to a new survey, nine in ten companies are experimenting with AI, with Recommendation Systems emerging...
Untether AI tethers compute cores inside memory array
A Canadian startup called Untether AI has built tsunAImi, a PCIe card containing four runA1200 chips which combine memory and distributed compute in a single die. We think the...
HPE touts Ezmeral Data Fabric for AI and machine learning workloads
HPE is to sell the HPE Ezemeral Data Fabric on a standalone basis and it has opened a marketplace for cloud-native software running on this AI-ML focused service. ...
Deploy AI workloads with confidence using OpenVINO
Sponsored Artificial Intelligence techniques have been finding their way into business applications for some time now. From chatbots forming the first line of engagement in customer services, to image...
Screaming AI: NetApp joins DDN, WekaIO and pals with Nvidia-validated setup
NetApp and Nvidia have developed an all-flash ONTAP array/ DGX A100 GPU server AI reference architecture, pumping out up to 300GB/sec and joining DDN, Pavilion Data, VAST Data and...
Samsung embeds AI into high-bandwidth memory to beat up on DRAM
Samsung has announced a high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip with embedded AI that is designed to accelerate compute performance for high performance computing and large data centres.
The AI...