GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event,...
Western Digital CFO resigns ahead of company split
Western Digital CFO Wissam Jabre is resigning effective February 28, after the company splits into separate disk drive and SSD businesses. He was slated to become the CFO of...
MariaDB adds vector search in Gen AI DB push
The open-source MariaDB database now has a vector search capability, allowing customers' businesses to access a single, complete database supporting transactional, analytical, semi-structured, and now artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The...
Lenovo goes shopping, plonks Infinidat in the basket
Lenovo is buying privately-owned enterprise block array storage supplier Infinidat for an undisclosed amount.
Systems supplier Lenovo's storage line-up is centered on small and medium enterprises. It was built up...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...
HighPoint now supports Arm in high-performance NVMe environments
HighPoint Technologies, which provides PCIe NVMe storage and switching solutions, now supports Arm-based computing platforms, increasingly present in datacenters and at the edge.
HighPoint was already an established storage and...
Blackstone invests $300M in DDN to boost AI storage business
Private equity firm Blackstone is investing $300 million in privately held DDN, valuing the company at $5 billion and aiming to help develop its AI-related storage business.
According to DDN...
Pure Storage qualifies Micron’s 276-layer flash
Pure Storage has expanded its strategic collaboration with Micron to include Micron G9 QLC NAND for future DirectFlash Module (DFM) products.
Pure’s flash storage arrays use DFMs as solid-state storage...
Micron using Phison controller for latest Crucial gaming gumstick SSD
Micron says its Crucial P510 PCIe gen 5 SSD will be built with G9 276-layer 3D NAND and use Phison’s PS5031-E31T SSD controller.
Phison is showing this controller and the...
Storage news ticker – January 6
Box CEO Aaron Levie posted a chart tracking historical storage costs on X/Twitter:
He said: "When we started Box, the hard drives in our servers were ~80 GB, and we...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage news ticker – December 20
This is the last article I will post until the new year. It has been a fascinating 2024 with storage dominated by SSD, HDD, and array developments, the need...