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.
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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...
Hitachi Vantara and Broadcom unveil updated Unified Compute Platform RS
Hitachi Vantara has partnered with Broadcom to produce an updated Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS, powered by the newly launched VMware Cloud Foundation v9 software, unveiled at VMware Explore...
Quantum executes reverse stock split to avoid Nasdaq delisting
Faced with the possibility of being delisted by Nasdaq due to its stock being worth less than $1, Quantum is implementing a reverse stock split to drive up the...
Demanding environments? HighPoint reveals NVMe enclosures
HighPoint has lifted the covers off a new line of external NVMe RAID enclosures, designed to elevate Gen4 storage applications to “new heights”, it says.
The RocketStor 654x series promises...
Storage news ticker – August 22
Open source ETL provider Airbyte says its PyAirbyte Python library, introduced in late February, has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers sync over 6 billion records of...
DDN gets Nvidia nod to supply storage to GPU-serving cloud partners
DDN is being certified by Nvidia to provide the storage component of a reference architecture that is to be used by cloud service providers (CSP) to build Nvidia GPU-powered...
Western Digital all-flash OpenFlex box outpaces NetApp in GPUDirect data serving
Western Digital claims its OpenFlex Data24 system loaded with NVMe SSDs and an NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) adapter does read and write IO across an Nvidia GPUDirect link faster...
Lenovo and Cloudian launch AI data lake system powered by AMD
Lenovo has built a clusterable AI Data Lake system with AMD servers running Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage.
The hardware is Lenovo’s SR635 V3 all-flash server with an AMD gen 4...
MinIO DataPOD takes aim at GPU Direct parallel filers
MinIO has devized an exascale DataPOD reference architecture for storing data needed by GPUs doing AI work.
The open source object storage software supplier is positioning its scalable 100PiB (112.6PB)...
Storage news ticker – August 14 2024
The Active Archive Alliance released a report, "How Active Archives Support Modern AI Strategies," saying its members' products could be used as active archives for AI users. Get a...