Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW

Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe…

Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs

The Micron 3610 NVMe SSD is the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 QLC client SSD, powered by Micron G9 NAND and…

Storage Ticker - 6 January 2026

Backblaze has appointed Dan Spraggins as SVP of Engineering to scale its global storage cloud. He now oversees Backblaze's engineering…

Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs

Nvidia has moved to address growing KV cache capacity limits by standardizing the offload of inference context to NVMe SSDs…

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600 High-Performance Computing (HPC) isn’t just about raw compute—it’s about feeding those…

Quobyte brings GPU-converged storage to AI clusters

Quobyte has introduced GPU-converged storage to bring data in its parallel file system and object storage software closer to GPUs,…

AWS piles on S3 upgrades from vector search to 50 TB objects

AWS has boosted its S3 offerings with support for larger, faster-accessed, and more AI data sources, including NetApp, and has…

Nvidia SCADA offloads storage control path to the GPU

The Nvidia SCADA scheme is ushering in GPU-controlled storage IO for AI inferencing workloads that will be faster than GPUDirect…

Wasabi sets itself on Fire

Wasabi is taking on public cloud hyperscalers with fast-access object storage for AI use. Traditionally, Wasabi supplies single-tier, S3-compliant object…

Hitachi Vantara's high-end block storage array news

HItachi Vantara has revamped its mainstream VSP One 5000 enterprise storage arrays from a hybrid SSD+HDD design to all-NVMe flash…

DDN goes hard CORE

DDN is making a splash at SC25 by launching new systems and a unified CORE AI and HPC data plane…

VAST Data, Dell, Versity and Spectra Logic are shining storage stars on TACC’s Horizon

TACC’s Horizon supercomputer is using VAST Data online storage, a Dell caching archive front end, Versity software, and Spectra Logic…

MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy

MinIO is combining its AIStor object software with Supermicro Intel Xeon 6 servers and Solidigm SSDs to craft 1 EiB…

Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals

Quantum has sped up part-object retrieval from its ActiveScale tape backend with a Ranged Restore feature. It says customers can…

Storage news ticker - 13 November

Anomalo introduced AIDA, its AI Data Analyst built directly on top of its data quality platform. With AIDA, every data user…

PEAK:AIO’s scale-out flash pNFS metadata server

All-flash and software-defined storage business PEAK:AIO has a single-node metadata server technology which it has evolved into a multi-node, scale-out…

VAST supports Google Cloud TPUs in managed service

VAST Data and Google Cloud have announced a full-managed VAST AI OS service – a unified global namespace across hybrid…

MAID re-inventer Leil raises €1.5 million seed funding for petabyte datasets on SMR disks

Estonia-based Leil Storage has raised €1.5 million ($1.73 million) funding to develop its vast data set storage system based on…