Storage news ticker – December 20

This is the last article I will post until the new year. It has been a fascinating 2024 with storage…

Why GPU-powered AI needs fast storage

ADVERTORIAL: The process of training modern AI models can be incredibly resource-intensive – a single training run for a large…

FADU’s SSD controller edge: Multiple parallel PPUs

Profile: FADU is a fabless semiconductor company operating out of Seoul in Korea and specializing in SSD controllers and also…

Nutanix getting GPUDirect ducks lined up

A Nutanix technical white paper confirms Nutanix will support AI foundation model training with distributed data set access and fast…

Quantum DXi9200 hybrid backup appliance replaces previous models

Quantum has launched a high-end DXi9200 target backup appliance as its sole hybrid (flash+disk) hardware accompanying the two all-flash T-series…

Hammerspace hammers MLPerf Storage benchmark results

Hammerspace claims it has set new records in the MLPerf Storage 1.0 benchmark with its Tier 0 storage beating DDN…

Storage news ticker – November 22

Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of…

Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework

Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range. The main storage system suppliers are all…

Pure Storage's FlashBlade//S500 gains Nvidia SuperPOD certification

Pure Storage has announced certification of its FlashBlade//S500 storage with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD along with a new GenAI Pod system…

Hitachi jumps into QLC flash array pool and adds object storage to VSP One

Hitachi Vantara has added a low-cost all flash array and object storage to its Virtual Storage One (VSP One) portfolio.…

VDURA enhances VDP performance and scalability for AI

VDURA has upgraded its VDURA Data Platform (VDP) storage operating system to provide more performance, scalability, and simpler management –…

NetApp upgrades low-end flash arrays and StorageGRID

NetApp has refreshed the low end of its all-flash A-Series AFF arrays following the May midrange and high-end upgrade. It…

Lightbits brings high-performance block storage to Oracle cloud

The Lightbits cloud virtual SAN software has been ported to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where it delivers fast, low-latency block…

Scality: AI-focused RING XP runs circles around slow object storage

Scality’s all-flash RING XP provides GPUDirect class object storage for AI workloads, enabling it to compete with file systems in…

DapuStor demos superiority of BaM over GPUDirect by eliminating SW bottlenecks

DapuStor has accelerated Gen AI model training with data on its PCIe gen 4 and 5 SSDs accessed and moved…

Storage news ticker – October 10

Analytics company Cloudera has launched Cloudera AI Inference, powered by Nvidia NIM microservices and accelerated computing (Tensor core GPUs), boosting…

Pliops XDP LightningAI is a memory tier for GPU compute 

The Pliops LightningAI product functions as a memory tier for GPU servers and can provide a more than 2x speed…

NetApp responds to VAST with ONTAP Data Platform for AI

Analysis NetApp is one of the first of the major incumbent storage vendors to respond to VAST Data's parallel NFS-based…