Nutanix marries cloud-native infra with Pure Storage and agentic AI
Nutanix is becoming cloud-native and hypervisor-independent, supporting external storage and embracing generative AI as it aims to provide a generalized software platform on which you can run anything, anywhere.
At...
Huawei unveils full-stack AI data lake platform
Huawei has developed its own data lake software as part of a full-stack approach to providing AI data storage and pipelining for AI training and inference workloads.
This was presented...
VAST’s VUA flash caching virtually expands GPU server memory for AI token generation
VAST Data is open sourcing its VUA (VAST Undivided Attention) KVCache software technology to store generated AI model training and inferencing tokens in NVMe-connected SSDs for fast transfer GPU...
WEKA reshuffles C-suite amid AI push
WEKA has appointed new chief revenue, product, and strategy officers.
The company supplies high-performance, parallel access file system software for enterprise and HPC, with AI and agentic AI workloads now...
Pure debuts RC20 FlashArray//C with reused controllers for smaller deployments
Pure Storage has introduced a more affordable, low-capacity FlashArray//C model, the RC20, built with reconditioned controllers and aimed at edge deployments and smaller workloads.
The FlashArray//C series uses Pure’s proprietary...
DAOS file system lives on after Optane
The DAOS parallel file system delivers higher IOPS and bandwidth per server than Lustre and WEKA, according to IO500 benchmark data cited by the DAOS Foundation.
DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze announced a partnership with PureNodal, “a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads,” to deliver an efficient, high-performance, and...
Dell refreshes storage and server lines for AI workloads
Against a background of disaggregated IT and rising AI trends, Dell has announced refreshes of its PowerEdge, PowerStore, ObjectScale, PowerScale, and PowerProtect storage systems.
Dell is announcing both server and...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to build a two-story datacenter for tape storage in Middlesex, England. Its building application has been granted. The planning documents say: “This datacenter will...
Scan Computers deploys PEAK:AIO storage for Blackwell GPU cluster
An EMEA-based GPU server cloud provider is using PEAK:AIO storage to hold customer data for its Blackwell GPU cluster.
Startup PEAK:AIO is building scale-out AI Data Server storage based on highly...
Seagate sees fresh spin for NVMe hybrid flash/disk array
A Seagate blog says that fast-access hybrid flash+disk drive arrays are a good fit to AI workload needs because retaining large datasets solely on SSDs is financially unsustainable for...
Storage news ticker – March 21
Data integration supplier Adeptia announced double-digit annual growth since 2021 by enabling enterprises to manage and optimize their first-mile (raw data created outside of an organization’s internal data operations)...