Databricks wheels in Dolly chatbot
Lakehouse shipper Databricks has updated its open-source Dolly ChatGPT-like large language model to make its AI facilities available for business applications without needing massive GPU resources or costly API...
WANdisco wins two contract renewals
Crisis-hit WANdisco has announced two contract renewals for its live data replication software and has revealed customer names and revenue numbers.
WANdisco is investigating "massive" and "potentially fraudulent" sales reporting...
OpenAI operating on Cohesity data structures
Data protector Cohesity is going to provide its data structures to OpenAI so that generative AI can be applied to threat and anomaly detection, potentially combating the ransomware plague.
Microsoft...
DataCore positions AI-enabled Perifery as its edge
Multi-protocol storage SW supplier DataCore is setting up a Perifery edge division with AI+ services it says provide preprocessing tasks at the edge of media and entertainment company workflows.
DataCore...
Storage news ticker – April 11
Wall Street analyst Aaron Rakers reckons that AMD’s Pensando DPU adoption will be mostly driven by hyperscale cloud deployments and there is a $5-6 billion total addressable market for...
Data management biz Nasuni eyes data intelligence
Nasuni aims to become a data intelligence company, using software to analyze and locate automatically indexed and tagged file data.
Jim Liddle, VP for Nasuni’s Access Anywhere Product, told us...
Storage news ticker – April 5
Sorin Faibish has resigned from his director of product solutions role at block storage migrator Cirrus Data Solutions. He is now a performance engineer at NAS supplier OpenDrives.
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ALTR, an...
WANdisco CEO and CFO step down as chairman becomes CEO
Active data replicator WANdisco’s CEO Dave Richards and CFO Erik MIller have quit, with interim chair Ken Lever running the company. The company said in a statement this morning:...
Storage news roundup – 30 March 2023
Avid's NEXIS | F2 Solid State Drive (SSD) flash storage engine is available now. It accelerates media workflows, including finishing of 4K, 8K and HDR content, color grading, VFX...
Startup Finout offers FinOps to stop SaaS spend disasters
Sticking an Ops on the tail end of abbreviated things like development and data and finance is cool in these containerized cloud-native times, as in DevOps and DataOps and...
Is cloud repatriation part of your multicloud strategy?
Commissioned: This public cloud tale may sound familiar to you seasoned IT leaders.
You began your foray into the public cloud with a few controlled applications. You gained speed...
Storage news ticker – March 29
ATTO ExpressNVM NVMe Smart Switch Host Adapters and Xinnor Software RAID (xiRAID) are combining to create a RAID system for compute-intensive, high-performance systems. Xinnor xiRAID is a software RAID...