Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability
Micron has announced three different SSDs aimed at three different markets. The 9650 is a PCIe Gen 6 SSD using TLC (3 bits/cell) flash and built for speed. The...
Seagate posts 30% growth as HAMR drives lift it from slump
Seagate revenues grew by almost 39 percent year-on-year in the corporation's fiscal 2025 ended June 27 as HAMR drives lifted it out of a two-year sales slump. The drive...
SNIA tech review maps road to commercial DNA storage
The SNIA’s DNA Storage Alliance has published a 52-page technology review looking at the data encode/decode tech, commercial readiness metrics, and the challenges ahead.
DNA data storage relies on the...
DDN touts Infinia storage as key to faster, cheaper AI inference
DDN has released performance benchmarks showing it can can speed up AI processing time by 27x because of the way it handles intermediate KV caching.
An AI LLM or agent,...
WEKA ports NeuralMesh to a GPU server’s local SSDs
WEKA is turning a set of GPU server’s local SSDs into a unified high-performance storage pool for faster AI training and inferencing data access and system deployments with its...
Cloudian bakes Milvus vector database into HyperStore for AI inference
Object storage supplier Cloudian is adding Milvus vector database functionality into its HyperStore software to provide AI inference capabilities as part of an AI Data Platform roadmap.
HyperStore is an...
Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL
Volumez block storage for PostgreSQL on AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers more transactions per second at lower latency than the cloud providers’ own block storage instances.
PostgreSQL...
goHardDrive RMA customer details vulnerability
Developer Michael Lynch returned a disk drive to supplier goHardDrive after finding a flaw in its Return Merchant Authorization (RMA) process that he claimed could have accidentally published thousands...
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...
StorONE using Phison SW for integrated on-prem AI training system
StorONE is using Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ software in its ONEai automated AI system for enterprise storage.
SSD controller and latterly drive supplier Phison launched aiDAPTIV+, an LLM system that can be...
Databricks rolls out Lakebase Postgres and Agent Bricks for AI-era apps
Databricks has added a Lakebase Postgres database layer to its lakehouse, enabling AI apps and agents to run analytics on operational data within the Databricks environment. It also introduced...
Snowflake digs out $250M to buy Crunchy to plug Postgres gap
Snowflake has hoovered up Crunchy Data, plugging what was an increasingly visible gap in the cloud data giant’s Postgres strategy.
Snowflake had previously offered a PostGres connector to suck data...