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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
GTC,...
Quicksilver Western Digital QLC flash gumstick faster than stolid TLC predecessor
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
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
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...