Quantum developing AI-based media tagging
Quantum is developing AI software that can inspect unstructured data stored in its StorNext file system and ActiveScale object storage to identify content in videos, images and documents.
The extent...
In-memory DB vendor Redis inks multi-year collab deal with AWS
Real-time in-memory database vendor Redis announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Redis is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database and keeps data on disk, for persistence,...
Astera Labs spears CXL chip funding
Silicon valley startup and new unicorn Astera Labs has raked in $150 million in funding on top of delivering its Leo CXL Memory pooling and sharing controllers.
CXL, the Compute...
Storage news ticker – November 16
Taiwan-based Ambedded Technology has released the UniVirStor Flash Mars500 Ceph Storage Appliance: software-defined storage integrating Ceph, Ampere Altra Arm servers, and Ambedded’s Ceph management web UI. This turn-key appliance...
EIDF: Where tape storage meets artificial intelligence
The Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) has combined Spectra Logic tape storage with Cerebras wafer-scale AI so that archived datasets can be mined for insights.
Spectra's cold data storage tape...
Acronis aims ML-boosted management software at MSP backup and security clients
MSPs will be able to manage more and bigger clients with fewer staff, claims Acronis, talking up its new machine learning-boosted management product, which also includes more automation for...
Startup UnifabriX exits stealth mode with CXL 3.0 Smart Memory device demo
Israeli startup UnifabriX is demonstrating a CXL 3.0-connected Smart Memory device for data center and HPC memory pooling
The demo is taking place at SC22 and UnifabriX said it will...
Kioxia brings SSDs to AI and Arm environments
Kioxia has extended the market for its SSDs by getting them qualified for Arm servers, and by devising an AI image classification method using SSD data.
It seems counterintuitive, but...
Veritas unveils Alta cloud data protection
Veritas has announced its cloud-based Alta data protection and security software and Alta View dashboard to review and manage data in the public cloud, datacenters, and edge sites.
Alta “combines...
SK hynix prototypes computational CXL memory
Computational memory and CXL-connected external memory pools are tech development hotspots. DRAM and NAND fabricator SK hynix has combined the two in a joint development with sister company SK...
Dremio data lakes can run on VAST Data storage
VAST Data has a partnership with Dremio enabling its lakehouse software to run on-premises, accessing data from VAST’s Universal Storage all-flash file and object array.
Dremio’s software runs in-memory and creates...
Storage news ticker – September 26
Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, a distributed object storage product, is now available to all developers, providing scalable storage with no egress fees. It provides automated migration of data from S3-compatible services to...