Storj marries cloud object storage with GPU compute with Valdi acquisition
Cloud storage firm Storj has acquired Valdi’s high performance and on-demand compute platform, in the hopes of using it for its customers’ AI workloads.
Valdi aims to address the big...
TS Cloud and Google link arms, dangle AI data readiness package
Google Cloud Premier Partner TS Cloud has announced the launch of its Enterprise AI Development and Management Service, which aims to help businesses build and deploy their own AI...
IGXGlobal hoists Pure Storage as-a-service flag across Europe
US systems integrator IGXGlobal has begun offering its customized storage as-a-service (STaaS), powered by Pure Storage Evergreen//One, to customers across the UK and Europe.
IGXGlobal’s offering combines flexible subscription models...
Northern Data Group to launch Europe’s first cloud service with Nvidia H200 GPUs
Datacenter services outfit Northern Data Group will be the first cloud provider in Europe to offer the use of the recently launched powerful H200 GPU hardware from Nvidia.
Germany-headquartered Northern...
Elastic Playground facility aims to reduce hallucinations in LLMs
Data search supplier Elastic is attempting to make it easier for developers to stop large language models (LLMs) from generating hallucinatory (false) responses by adding proprietary data and LLM/RAG...
Australia launches Virga cluster with Dell AI rackservers for health research
Dell XE9640 AI rackservers are being used in Australia’s Virga cluster, with a BeeGFS flash backing store, to improve cystic fibrosis diagnosis and treatment among other research areas.
Australia’s Commonwealth...
Qdrant unveils hybrid vector algorithm for improved RAG
Open source vector database supplier Qdrant has developed its own BM42 search algorithm combining vector and standard BM25 keyword search methods to get better RAG results, claiming the method...
Samsung takes on Solidigm with 61.44 TB QLC SSD
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as seen with the Samsung BM1743, a 61.44 TB QLC SSD that competes with Solidigm's year-old D5-P5336, and Samsung is suggesting a...
NetApp intros AI-driven ransomware detection
NetApp is previewing an ONTAP AI-powered automated ransomware protection service, which a UK-based testing lab says detects 99 percent of ransomware attacks.
ONTAP’s ARP/AI service detects ransomware attacks against data...
Storage news ticker – July 1
Cloud-native data protector Alcion has joined Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Venture Network as an inaugural startup partner. Several members of its leadership team – including co-founders Niraj Tolia and Vaibhav...
Illumex secures $13M to combat chatbot hallucinations
Israeli startup Illumex is focused on getting an organization’s structured data involved in stopping GenAI chatbot hallucinations and has just received $13 million in a seed funding round to...
SK hynix unveils high-speed SSD for AI PCs
Korean memory manufacturer SK hynix is rolling out a sprint-speed SSD for AI PCs.
An AI PC is designed to run small-scale generative AI large language models (LLMs) locally, without...