How constant frustration drives storage developments
Comment Storage is always in flux, from underlying media to new ways to access on-drive storage and specialized large language model databases. Workloads need more data. They need it...
StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs
StorPool is developing a Disaster Recovery Engine (DRE) for Linux-based virtual machines based on site-to-site replication between its storage arrays.
A Linux KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) system has, like VMware,...
How to reduce AI hallucinations
SPONSORED POST: Accurate data is fundamental to the success of generative AI (GenAI) - and so is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
RAG can enhance the accuracy of GenAI workloads by processing...
Optera Data stores data in fluorescence with spectra holes
University of South Australia researcher Dr Nicolas Riesen is working on research that opens the door to potential archival storage that he believes could be ten times cheaper than...
Qumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge.
Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its...
Storage news ticker – February 3
The UK-based part of Rubrik Backup-as-a-Service supplier ADP (Assured Data Protection) is partnering cyber-security, comms and tech MSP Wavenet – the UK's largest independent IT MSP – to provide...
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global.
The deal will give Quantum access to additional equity capital and liquidity. Limited initially...
Ocient taps AMD EPYC CPUs for performance boost
Hyperscale analytics data warehouse supplier Ocient is collaborating with AMD to use its Gen 4 EPYC CPUs, achieving a 3.5x increase in processing power and more than doubling memory...
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,...
Blackstone invests $300M in DDN to boost AI storage business
Private equity firm Blackstone is investing $300 million in privately held DDN, valuing the company at $5 billion and aiming to help develop its AI-related storage business.
According to DDN...
Scaling RAG with RAGOps and agents
COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. Whereas LLMs are typically trained with public...
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...