Apache Iceberg
Apache Iceberg - an open source table format for large-scale datasets in data lakes, sitting above storage systems like Parquet, ORC, and Avro, and cloud object stores such as...
Apache Spark
Apache Spark - an open-source, distributed computing framework intended for fast, large-scale data processing and analytics. It’s used for big data workloads involving batch processing, real-time streaming, machine learning,...
SOCAMM
SOCAMM - Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module. SOCAMMs provide over 2.5 times higher bandwidth at the same capacity when compared to RDIMMs, according to Micron. The SOCAMM form...
Tokens
Tokens - In the context of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in natural language processing (NLP) tokens are an intermediate representation of words, images, audio and video between the origini=al...
Storage leaders weigh in on their industry for International Women’s Day
"I heard a comment the other day that tech is an industry founded by men making things for men" – Fidelma Russo, CTO at HPE.
Today, on International Women's Day,...
BPM
BPM - Bit-Patterned Media - a type of magnetic storage technology designed to increase the areal density of data storage beyond what is achievable with conventional continuous granular media...
HDMR
HDMR - Heated Dot Magnetic Recording is based on ultra small, non-interacting, and thermally stable (at room temperature) magnetic dots. They are heated by laser, as with HAMR, to...
HBF
HBF - High Bandwidth Flash. This is the stacking of NAND dies one above the other with them all above a logic layer. The whole stack connecs to a...
Storage news ticker – February 7
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Computational storage startup Eideticom has been assigned two patents: 10,996,892 for "Apparatus and Method for Controlling Data Acceleration" and 11,231,868 for "System and Method for Performing Computational Storage Utilizing...
Fractal Index Tree
Fractal Index Tree - a data structure used for indexing in databases, which combines elements of traditional tree-based indexing methods like B-trees with concepts from fractal geometry to enhance...
vLLM
vLLM - virtual Large Language Model (LLM). The vLLM technology was developed at UC Berkeley as “an open source library for fast LLM inference and serving” and is now an...
REST
REST - An appliacyion programming interface (API) the REST API (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a web service that follows REST principles to enable communication between clients and...