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...
WEKA builds NeuralMesh architecture for exascale AI workloads
WEKA has announced a NeuralMesh transformation of its parallel file system software to accelerate AI at scale.
The basis of this is that traditional storage architectures have not been designed...
Storage news ticker – June 16
Optical character recognition (OCR) replacement tech provider Adeptia, an intelligent data automation company, announced AIDP, an AI-driven Intelligent Document Processing offering, for use in the cloud, on-prem, and in...
Nebius taps WEKA for top layer of storage in GPU farms
WEKA has struck a collaboration agreement with Nebius that will see the high end storage purveyor’s platform made available through the GPU-as-a-service vendor’s datacenters.
Netherlands-based Nebius focuses on supporting AI...
Hitachi promises time travel for LLMs – just don’t lose your RAG
Hitachi Vantara is claiming to have cracked the problem of time travel in AI, though its biggest immediate challenge seems to be whether to charge for it.
The vendor unwrapped...