AI driving data center – and storage – transformation
Research house Silicon Angle says the Gen AI surge is driving an evolution away from traditional data centers to ones that are accelerated and far more scalable, and have...
Starcloud pitches orbital datacenters as cheaper, cooler, and cleaner
Orbiting datacenters look a lot more feasible with figures from Starcloud showing that power and cooling up in orbit is effectively free once deployed.
Startup Starcloud wants to build datacenters...
Arcitecta plots next phase with denser database tech and HPC ambitions
Arcitecta CEO and founder Jason Lohrey presented his thoughts on the company's progress and future at an IT Press Tour event in New York this month.
Australia-based Arcitecta’s Mediaflux distributed...
Storage news roundup – 17 October
AI-powered data trust company Ataccama announced a native integration with Atlan, bringing Ataccama’s automated data quality intelligence directly into experiences powered by Atlan’s metadata lakehouse, including search, lineage, and...
HPE Alletra storage getting strategic focus
HPE storage is doing so well that HPE is publicly reporting its numbers again as part of an AI-focussed financial reporting revamp, with Alletra Storage MP taking the lead...
NetApp disaggregates ONTAP storage and provides an AI Data Engine
New all-flash NetApp AFX arrays separately scale storage and compute while an AI Data Engine pre-processes ONTAP data for AI LLM and agent use, and customers get a NetApp...
Hitachi Vantara and physical AI
We had the opportunity to interview Jason hardy, Hitachi Vantara’s CTO for AI, and the conversation started by looking at VSP One and disaggregation and ended up talking about...
VDURA names RAID pioneer Garth Gibson as CTO
VDURA has appointed RAID and parallel file system developer Garth Gibson as its first chief technology and AI officer (CTAIO) to reinvent the storage stack for AI.
Gibson co-invented RAID...
Storage news ticker – September 22
Acronis will incorporate Seagate’s S3-compatible Lyve Cloud Object Storage into its Acronos Archival Storage offering to help enable MSPs to deliver services with more cost-effective, and compliant storage. Learn...
VergeIO taps Cirrus Data to woo VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V users
VergeIO is using Cirrus Data mobility software to convince clients to switch away from other hypervisor environments, saying it wants to end infrastructure sprawl by migrating them to its...
ULTRARAM edges toward industrial scale with IQE backing
Quinas Technology has completed a first step to volume production of its ULTRARAM universal computer memory combining the speed of DRAM, the non-volatility of NAND, and low energy consumption.
IQE...
Finchetto and its optical packet switch: you can’t store light
The fundamental problem of an optical packet switch is that light cannot be stored. A light beam carrying a data packet cannot be stored and then sent on its...