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Pure Storage unveils anti-hallucination AI tech at Nvidia’s GTC

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Pure Storage is announcing anti-hallucinatory Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) reference architectures at Nvidia’s GTC event to add an organization’s own data to GenAI chatbots and make their answers more accurate. GTC,...

Quicksilver Western Digital QLC flash gumstick faster than stolid TLC predecessor

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Like Solidigm, Western Digital claims its QLC gumstick flash can replace TLC flash and, in fact, is better than the SN740 TLC drive it's replacing. QLC (4bits/cell) flash drives are...

Pure looks beyond DRAM limitations to scale SSD capacities

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Pure Storage says SSDs will struggle to get past 30 TB capacities because of DRAM limitations. Shawn Rosemarin, Pure VP for R&D, told Blocks and Files that, generally speaking, a...

Storage news ticker – March 15

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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

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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...

Equinix brings in Google head as CEO to scale data services

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Global datacenter services heavyweight Equinix is to replace its CEO as part of a planned transition in "late Q2." Update. Merrie Williamson hire note added at end of story, 14...

Storage news ticker – March 14

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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

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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

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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...

VAST Data turns BlueField3 DPUs into storage controllers for Nvidia GPU servers

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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...

Western Digital picks leadership for new divisions

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Western Digital is being split into separate disk drive and NAND/SSD businesses, and CEO David Goeckeler will head up the latter. Western Digital, under activist investor engagement from Elliott Management,...

NetApp brings AI-driven ransomware detection to ONTAP

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NetApp is using AI/ML in ONTAP arrays to provide real-time file ransomware attack detection. Its AIPOD has also been certified by Nvidia so customers can use NetApp storage for...