PEAK:AIO drives UK effort to bring down cost of medicine
PEAK:AIO, a software specialist in data infrastructure for AI and GPU applications, is now involved in the University of Strathclyde's…
Very large AI model training uses object storage
HPC expert Glenn Lockwood says that the largest AI language models are being trained with object storage, not file storage.…
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global. The deal will give…
WEKA boosts GenAI speed with Mooncake vLLM tech
File system provider WEKA wants to make its customers’ GenAI models respond faster by using a vLLM Mooncake tech combination. Val…
Quantum Myriad supports 122.9 TB SSDs and in-place system scaling
Quantum is adding incremental, in-place system scaling with dynamic, automatic data leveling to its Myriad all-flash file system, along with…
Object First’s business is scaling up
Object First, the Veeam-specific object-based backup appliance startup, says it registered 389 percent bookings growth in 2024 along with a…
Hammerspace gets WEKA’s ex-CRO as its sales boss
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has orchestrated its first Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Giannetti, who abruptly left the CRO spot at WEKA…
GenAI, LLMs, and agents are transforming storage
Analysis: GenAI is washing through the IT world like water flooding across a landscape when a dam breaches. It is…
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software…
Panmnesia snags award for GPU CXL memory expansion
A Panmnesia scheme to bulk up a GPU’s memory by adding fast CXL-accessed external memory to a unified virtual memory…
HighPoint now supports Arm in high-performance NVMe environments
HighPoint Technologies, which provides PCIe NVMe storage and switching solutions, now supports Arm-based computing platforms, increasingly present in datacenters and…
Storage news ticker – January 6
Box CEO Aaron Levie posted a chart tracking historical storage costs on X/Twitter: He said: "When we started Box, the…
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI…
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…