Dell building Nvidia-powered AI Factory for business analytics
Dell is building an Nvidia-based AI Factory so customers can use Dell servers, storage, and networking to serve proprietary data to RAG-integrated AI inferencing systems for better analyses.
Update. PowerScale...
DDN turbocharges AI400X2 appliance to beef up AI performance
DDN has lifted the covers off AI400X2 Turbo appliance, new AI hardware with more network ports and memory compared to its AI400X2 predecessor.
The AI400X2 Turbo is an update on...
MemVerge uses CXL to drive Nvidia GPU utilization higher
MemVerge's DRAM virtualizing Memory Machine software can use CXL to give GPUs more memory and rescue them from being stranded waiting for memory loading.
Update: GDDR6 is not HBM and...
Storage news ticker – March 15
ETL connector biz Airbyte announces that there are more than 5,000 data connectors, created by users with the Airbyte no-code builder, in active use. Its revenues increased by four...
Weka shines in cloud performance and efficiency benchmark
Weka running in the public cloud has made big gains in the SPECstorage Solutions 2020 benchmark arena with clear wins in four of its five categories.
SPECstorage Solutions 2020 is...
Storage news ticker – March 14
Virtual distributed file system supplier Alluxio has been included for the second consecutive year in Forbes's "America's Best Startup Employers" which ranks the 500 top startups displaying excellence across...
Meta hooks up with Hammerspace for advanced AI infrastructure project
Meta has confirmed Hammerspace is its data orchestration software supplier, supporting 49,152 Nvidia H100 GPUs split into two equal clusters.
The parent of Facebook, Instgram and other social media platforms,...
ScaleFlux makes go-faster computational storage SoC
Computational storage drive developer ScaleFlux has a new System-on-Chip (SoC) that it claims quadruples capacity, doubles sequential read/write bandwidth and random read IOPS, and nearly doubles the random write...
Generative AI and the wizardry of the wide-open ecosystem
COMMISSIONED: IT leaders face several challenges navigating the growing generative AI ecosystem, but choosing a tech stack that can help bring business use cases to fruition is among the...
VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers
All-flash storage array supplier VAST Data has ported its storage controller software into Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPUs to get its stored data into the heart of Nvidia GPU servers, transforming...
Cohesity Gaia and vector embedding the backup data estate
Listening to Cohesity's Gaia guy, Greg Statton, talking to an IT Press Tour audience about having a conversation with your data, and CEO Sanjay Poonen saying Gaia, with RAG,...
Acquired Model9 mainframe data extractor becomes BMC AMI Cloud suite
Business IT modernization supplier BMC bought Model9 in April last year, and has rebranded its software as the AMI Cloud.
BMC is a private equity-owned $2 billion a year revenue...