GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is being viewed by many suppliers as an epoch-changing event,...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...
Panmnesia snags award for GPU CXL memory expansion
A Panmnesia scheme to bulk up a GPU’s memory by adding fast CXL-accessed external memory to a unified virtual memory space has won a CES Innovation award.
Panmnesia says large-scale...
HighPoint now supports Arm in high-performance NVMe environments
HighPoint Technologies, which provides PCIe NVMe storage and switching solutions, now supports Arm-based computing platforms, increasingly present in datacenters and at the edge.
HighPoint was already an established storage and...
Storage news ticker – January 6
Box CEO Aaron Levie posted a chart tracking historical storage costs on X/Twitter:
He said: "When we started Box, the hard drives in our servers were ~80 GB, and we...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Storage news ticker – December 20
This is the last article I will post until the new year. It has been a fascinating 2024 with storage dominated by SSD, HDD, and array developments, the need...
Why GPU-powered AI needs fast storage
ADVERTORIAL: The process of training modern AI models can be incredibly resource-intensive – a single training run for a large language model can require weeks or months of high-performance...
FADU’s SSD controller edge: Multiple parallel PPUs
Profile: FADU is a fabless semiconductor company operating out of Seoul in Korea and specializing in SSD controllers and also drives. Jonmichael Hands, its Senior Director for Product Planning,...
Nutanix getting GPUDirect ducks lined up
A Nutanix technical white paper confirms Nutanix will support AI foundation model training with distributed data set access and fast file data delivery to NVIDIA GPU servers.
Foundation models, also...
Quantum DXi9200 hybrid backup appliance replaces previous models
Quantum has launched a high-end DXi9200 target backup appliance as its sole hybrid (flash+disk) hardware accompanying the two all-flash T-series and two V5000 virtual appliances.
As a consequence, its DXi...
Hammerspace hammers MLPerf Storage benchmark results
Hammerspace claims it has set new records in the MLPerf Storage 1.0 benchmark with its Tier 0 storage beating DDN Lustre more than 16x at the same client count.
The...