PEAK:AIO bets on open pNFS to take on Lustre
Software-defined, high-performance all-flash storage company PEAK:AIO is adopting parallel NFS (pNFS) as it evolves from a single-node system into a scale-out product.
CTO and founder Mark Klarzynski told us: “The big...
VergeIO adds private AI and ransomware-resistant snapshots in latest OS release
The latest OS release from VergeIO introduces private, on-prem AI and ransomware-fighting immutable snapshots, while also improving the company’s alternative-to-VMware features.
The company’s VergeOS software virtualizes a server with a...
Seagate working on Composable Memory Appliance with CXL memory
Seagate and ZeroPoint Technologies demonstrated hardware-accelerated compression within a CXL memory tier at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, CA.
How could disk drive supplier Seagate utilise ZeroPoint’s HW-accelerated...
CoreWeave’s LOTA tech moves object data at high speed
CoreWeave’s AI Object Storage service shifts object data around the world at high speed, using Local Object Transport Accelerator (LOTA) technology, with no egress or request/transaction/tiering fees.
It says high-performance...
Hammerspace taps Xsight Labs DPU to cut out legacy storage servers for AI
Parallel NFS-based data manager/orchestrator Hammerspace has selected the Xsight Labs E1 800G DPU to eliminate legacy storage servers from AI data storage.
Hammerspace claims this collaboration advances the Open Flash Platform (OFP)...
Storage news ticker – October 15
Broadcom announced its third-generation Tomahawk 6 Davisson (TH6-Davisson) product, the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch – double the bandwidth of any CPO switch available today....
Storage news ticker – October 1
BestBrokers has collated data from Pitchbook, Crunchbase and more, and provided a table of the biggest funding rounds in AI in September 2025:
Anthropic – $13 billion, $183 billion valuation
Databricks...
Nvidia bids $900M+ for server fabric startup Enfabrica
Nvidia is buying GPU cluster interconnector and server memory offload appliance developer Enfabrica in a deal valued at more than $900 million. Multiple sources, such as CNBC and Reuters,...
Finchetto sees the light, develops optical switch
When an optical cable terminates at a switch, its photons are transformed into electrons and digital circuitry receives and processes the light signals. How much faster things would be...
Storage News Ticker – 8 August
Broadcom’s new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router scales to 36,000 HyperPorts, each operating at 3.2 Tb/s, with deep buffering, line-rate MACsec, and RoCE transport over 100KM+ distances. The 3.2T HyperPort...
SNIA dives into Storage.AI standards project
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is working on an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads, focusing on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches.
The SNIA...
Open Flash Platform group proposes SSD-free flash storage for AI era
An Open Flash Platform (OFP) group is aiming to rewrite flash storage standards for AI by getting rid of all-flash arrays and their controllers, replacing them with shelves of...