Lightbits brings high-performance block storage to Oracle cloud
The Lightbits cloud virtual SAN software has been ported to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where it delivers fast, low-latency block storage.
Lightbits block storage software has, until now, run in...
Scality: AI-focused RING XP runs circles around slow object storage
Scality’s all-flash RING XP provides GPUDirect class object storage for AI workloads, enabling it to compete with file systems in pumping data to GPU servers.
The RING is Scality’s core...
DapuStor demos superiority of BaM over GPUDirect by eliminating SW bottlenecks
DapuStor has accelerated Gen AI model training with data on its PCIe gen 4 and 5 SSDs accessed and moved to GPU memory faster than GPUDirect by using Nvidia’s...
Storage news ticker – October 10
Analytics company Cloudera has launched Cloudera AI Inference, powered by Nvidia NIM microservices and accelerated computing (Tensor core GPUs), boosting LLM speeds by a claimed 36x. A service integration...
Pliops XDP LightningAI is a memory tier for GPU compute
The Pliops LightningAI product functions as a memory tier for GPU servers and can provide a more than 2x speed up for large language model (LLM) responses.
Pliops is an...
NetApp responds to VAST with ONTAP Data Platform for AI
Analysis NetApp is one of the first of the major incumbent storage vendors to respond to VAST Data's parallel NFS-based data access for AI work, with its internal ONTAP...
VAST integrates Nvidia GPUs and NIM for AI insights
VAST Data has brought Nvidia GPU hardware and NIM microservices software into its AI storage and data processing to create an InsightEngine product providing real-time and automatically triggered AI...
Storage news ticker – September 24
Cohesity-commissioned research shows organizations are fueling ransomware attacks through their readiness to pay. Over half of all UK companies surveyed had been attacked so far in 2024, with three...
IBM unveils tenth-gen DS8000 mainframe arrays
IBM has designed its block access DS8000 mainframe arrays to store more and access data faster with its tenth-generation models.
The two all-flash models have got enhanced Power9 processors, not...
How Nvidia assesses SuperPOD AI storage performance
Nvidia’s GPUDirect tech has led to a focus on storage array bandwidth. The GPU giant's SuperPOD certification for third-party hardware, meanwhile, emphasizes bandwidth, latency, scalability, and large dataset handling.
Updates:...
Storage news ticker – September 2
Broadcom announced VMware Tanzu Platform 10, a cloud-native application platform, with standardized golden paths to production for developers and platform engineers. Developers can use simple operations to automate secure container...
Hammerspace launches Dell-hosted data orchestration appliances
Hammerspace has added its data orchestration software in Arrow Electronics-supplied Dell server boxes. Customers can buy subscriptions to these appliances to get their scattered data estates orchestrated and organized...