VDURA’s view: SSD or HDD? It’s not either/or; it’s both
An NVMe-SSD + HDD architecture on a true parallel file system wins on $/TB, watts/TB, and long-term TCO over SSD-only or HDD-only architectures—without giving up GPU performance.
So says HPC/AI...
Quantum’s financial reporting mess gets worse
Quantum, which has delayed its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results because of accounting problems, now says that the previous quarter’s revenues were wrongly stated as a 1...
Rubrik adds rogue AI agent action rewind protection
Cyber-security and backup company Rubrik has an Agent Rewind offering that enables customers to undo mistaken agentic AI changes to applications and data by providing visibility into agents' actions...
Arrays speed up for MLPerf Storage Benchmark v2.0
The second edition of the MLPerf Storage benchmark shows tested systems serving roughly twice the number of accelerators than in the 2023 v1.0 benchmark round.
MLCommons said this round of...
MinIO blends object storage and table data for GenAI workloads
MinIO is becoming a multi-modal data store for AI, providing tools for it to access and use that data. This has become evident in a lengthy interview with MinIO co-founder...
Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability
Micron has announced three different SSDs aimed at three different markets. The 9650 is a PCIe Gen 6 SSD using TLC (3 bits/cell) flash and built for speed. The...
Seagate posts 30% growth as HAMR drives lift it from slump
Seagate revenues grew by almost 39 percent year-on-year in the corporation's fiscal 2025 ended June 27 as HAMR drives lifted it out of a two-year sales slump. The drive...
SNIA tech review maps road to commercial DNA storage
The SNIA’s DNA Storage Alliance has published a 52-page technology review looking at the data encode/decode tech, commercial readiness metrics, and the challenges ahead.
DNA data storage relies on the...
DDN touts Infinia storage as key to faster, cheaper AI inference
DDN has released performance benchmarks showing it can can speed up AI processing time by 27x because of the way it handles intermediate KV caching.
An AI LLM or agent,...
WEKA ports NeuralMesh to a GPU server’s local SSDs
WEKA is turning a set of GPU server’s local SSDs into a unified high-performance storage pool for faster AI training and inferencing data access and system deployments with its...
Cloudian bakes Milvus vector database into HyperStore for AI inference
Object storage supplier Cloudian is adding Milvus vector database functionality into its HyperStore software to provide AI inference capabilities as part of an AI Data Platform roadmap.
HyperStore is an...
Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL
Volumez block storage for PostgreSQL on AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers more transactions per second at lower latency than the cloud providers’ own block storage instances.
PostgreSQL...