Open Flash Platform group proposes SSD-free flash storage for AI era
An Open Flash Platform (OFP) group is aiming to rewrite flash storage standards for AI by getting rid of all-flash arrays and their controllers, replacing them with shelves of...
Quantum expands all-flash DXi line with higher-capacity backup boxes
Quantum has added two more DXi all-flash deduplicating backup storage products to its range, doubling and quadrupling the previous all-flash maximum capacity.
The DXi product line is built to store...
Cloudian plugs PyTorch into GPUDirect to juice AI training speeds
Cloudian engineers have added Nvidia GPUDirect support to a PyTorch connector to accelerate AI and machine learning workloads.
In the machine learning world, the Torch open source software library interfaces...
Meta superintelligence push to drive huge demand for storage
Meta is eyeing a massive AI datacenter expansion program with the chosen storage suppliers set for a bonanza.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook: "We're going to invest hundreds of...
Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount
Beleaguered storage vendor Quantum, which replaced CEO and chairman Jamie Lerner in June and CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard earlier this month, has made “a very large reduction” in staff,...
Kioxia UFS 4.1 flash promises smoother AI app performance
Kioxia is sampling the latest UFS v4.1 embedded smartphone and tablet flash with faster downloads and smoother app performance for on-device AI.
UFS (Universal Flash Storage) refers to small flash...
Graid going for Nvidia RAID gold
Graid occupies a technology niche with its Nvidia GPU-powered RAID cards and is powering ahead with a development roadmap featuring AI and high-performance computing (HPC) products.
The company, which says...
Nvidia extends LLM memory with tiered KV caching and Dynamo engine
Nvidia GPUs store vectors as key-value pairs in a large language model (LLM) memory cache – KV cache – which is tiered out in a multi-level structure ending with...
VAST Data cracks into HPC with Doudna supercomputer win
VAST Data is supplying an AI-focussed storage system for the Doudna supercomputer, sharing the storage billing with IBM’s Storage Scale and its traditional high-performance computing (HPC) parallel file system.
Doudna...
Kioxia tunes SSD-based vector search for RAG workloads
Kioxia has tweaked its AiSAQ SSD-based vector search by enabling admins to vary vector index capacity and search performance for different workloads.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is an AI large language...
Storage news ticker – June 30
Abstract Security announced LakeVilla, a new product aimed at offering customers a cloud-native cold storage facility built for long-term security telemetry retention that delivers compliance-ready, highly accessible storage at...
VDURA takes aim at VAST, WEKA, DDN with AI-HPC storage reboot
VDURA CEO Ken Claffey believes that the company should be classed alongside DDN, VAST Data, and WEKA as an extreme high-performing and reliable data store for modern AI and...