Storage news ticker – November 22
Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, Backblaze expects...
Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework
Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range.
The main storage system suppliers are all scrambling to provide customers with reference architecture-type frameworks that place...
Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//S500 gains Nvidia SuperPOD certification
Pure Storage has announced certification of its FlashBlade//S500 storage with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD along with a new GenAI Pod system for inferencing.
The FlashBlade//S500 is a high-end, performance-optimized FlashBlade system,...
Hitachi jumps into QLC flash array pool and adds object storage to VSP One
Hitachi Vantara has added a low-cost all flash array and object storage to its Virtual Storage One (VSP One) portfolio.
The VSP One portfolio is described as unified hybrid cloud...
VDURA enhances VDP performance and scalability for AI
VDURA has upgraded its VDURA Data Platform (VDP) storage operating system to provide more performance, scalability, and simpler management – with a twin focus on AI and HPC users.
VDURA...
NetApp upgrades low-end flash arrays and StorageGRID
NetApp has refreshed the low end of its all-flash A-Series AFF arrays following the May midrange and high-end upgrade. It has also updated the capacity-optimized C-Series hardware and added...
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...