The elephant in the storage supplier room: How to deal with AI
Comment: The big issue for storage suppliers is AI - how to store and make data accessible to AI agents and models. Here's a look at how they are...
Dell updates PowerScale, ObjectScale to accelerate AI Factory rollout
Dell is refreshing its PowerScale and ObjectScale storage systems as part of a slew of AI Factory announcements on the first day of the Dell Technologies World conference.
The company...
Nvidia deepens AI datacenter push as DDN, HPE, NetApp integrate storage stacks
Nvidia is turning itself into an AI datacenter infrastructure company and storage suppliers are queuing up to integrate their products into its AI software stack. DDN, HPE, and NetApp...
VAST Data joins the Nvidia AI-Q agent rat race
VAST Data is integrating Nvidia’s AI-Q AI agent building and connecting blueprints into its storage to help its customers enter the AI agent-building rat race.
AI-Q is a blueprint or...
Storage news ticker – May 16
Open source ETL connector biz Airbyte announced progress in the first quarter with revenues up 25 percent, industry recognition, new product features, and Hackathon results. Michel Tricot, co-founder and...
Pliops bypasses HBM limits for GPU servers
Key-value accelerator card provider Pliops has unveiled the FusIOnX stack as an end-to-end AI inference offering based on its XDP LightningAI card.
Pliops' XDP LightningAI PCI card and software augment...
Xinnor reports rapid growth as xiRAID sales climb sharply
Software RAID supplier Xinnor saw first quarter sales of its xiRAID product reach 86 percent of the company's total revenue for all of 2024.
Israel-based Xinnor’s xiRAID provides a local...
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...