UALink Consortium invites new members to shape open AI interconnect standard
The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium, led by data processing and connectivity industry heavyweights, is now inviting new members to join.
The UALink effort was initiated in May 2024, and...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cohesity has hired Vasu Murthy as SVP and chief product officer. He comes from Rubrik, where he was VP of products – responsible for the core product, platform, and...
Paradigm4’s flexFS puts fast file front end on cloud object storage
Object storage is ill-suited to supporting AI, ML, and HPC workloads because it can't pump data fast enough to the many processors involved. File systems can do that but...
Wharton Business School study claims enterprises buying into Gen AI
Organizations are increasingly adopting Gen AI in business functions, according to research – with its use in operations, purchasing and procurement doubling since 2023.
This is shown by the “Growing...
Methylated DNA storage goes parallel
A new DNA-based storage approach, faster than coding data in DNA's four nucleic bases, works by setting DNA sections on or off, with the presence or absence of methyl...
Lenovo hires WD disk exec to head infrastructure business
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla has been hired away from running Western Digital’s disk drive operations to lead the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) business at Lenovo.
At Lenovo, from November 11, he will...
Seagate revenues soar on strong high-capacity drive demand
Seagate’s disk drive slump is over with a revenue rise due to US cloud providers buying more mass-capacity drives, and more to come from enterprises.
Revenues jumped 49 percent...
YanRong leads MLPerf AI benchmarks on GPUs supported per compute node
Chinese supplier YanRong Technology says it has the leading performance in the MLPerf Storage v1.0 benchmark, ranking first in the CosmoFlow, ResNet50 and UNet3D workloads.
The firm sells its all-flash...
Irish researchers score €4M grant to work on DNA storage
An Irish university research team has been awarded €4 million ($4.34 million) to research DNA storage and computation.
The team, led by professor Damien Woods at Maynooth University’s Hamilton Institute...
Dell expands AI factory scope with PowerScale upgrade
Dell has enhanced PowerScale scale-out clustered file system arrays with full stack components for AI factory workloads.
We have written about VAST Data’s AI stack approach, and NetApp’s AI architectural...
Gartner’s file and object MQ drops Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum
Cloudian, DDN, NetApp and Quantum have been dropped from Gartner’s 2024 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for File and Object Storage Platforms, while VAST Data has moved from challenger to leader...
VAST links up with Equinix and Cisco
VAST data is putting its AI storage and processing kit in Equinix colos and running its software on Cisco’s UCS servers as it broadens its routes to market.
The company...