Pure Storage unveils anti-hallucination AI tech at Nvidia’s GTC
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.
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Storage news ticker – March 20
Data streamer Confluent announced that its Flink service is now available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The cloud-native service enables reliable, serverless stream processing, which allows customers...
Samsung to offer SSDs on subscription
Samsung has published a blog discussing customers renting its petabyte-scale SSD (PBSSD) architecture products through a MinIO partnership.
It's not that Samsung actually has a petabyte-capacity SSD – more that...
Micron roars back to profitability thanks to AI boom
Flash memory and storage producer Micron topped its own financial guidance for Q2 of fiscal '25 ended February 29, on the back of ever growing demand for IT infrastructure...
Storage news ticker – March 22
After running its IPO, Astera Labs saw its shares, initially priced at $36/share, soar by 72 percent on March 20, closing at $62.03. This surge in share price valued...
Storage news ticker – March 27
DataStax has integrated with Microsoft's Semantic Kernel to help developers build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and vectorize data with Astra DB and Semantic Kernel's extensible open source SDK for AI...
Quantum flashifies ActiveScale object storage
Storage manager and protector Quantum has added a Z200 all-flash product to its ActiveScale object storage line with a focus on AI and data lake workloads.
The ActiveScale products have...
YMTC extends QLC flash endurance to match TLC
Chinese NAND manufacturer Yangtze Technology Memory Corporation (YMTC) has extended the endurance of QLC flash to match that of TLC.
YMTC is beset by US technology export restrictions on the...
Storage news ticker – April 9
Apache released Airflow 2.9, the latest version of the popular open source project, a data orchestration tool with more than 12 million monthly downloads and 33,000 GitHub stars. Airflow 2.9...
Dell amplifies AI workload support with Intel Gaudi3
Dell has added Intel Gaudi3 GPU support to its XE9680 server and ported APEX File Storage to Azure in support of AI workloads.
The XE9680 server was announced in January 2023...
Pure Storage: We are the AI data platform – part 2
We quiz Pure's VP for R&D Shawn Rosemarin on AI training, inference and Retrieval Augmented Generation. The first part of this interview is here.
B&F: Do storage considerations for running...
VAST Data ports software to Google Cloud
VAST Data has ported its Data Platform software to Google’s cloud enabling users to spin up VAST clusters there.
Update: VAST can work with Vertex AI. 12 April 2024.
VAST supplies...