Lucidity aims to clear up confusion over disk tiering for cloud storage

Joe Fay -
Block storage scaling specialist Lucidity has expanded its portfolio to offer a tiering service, and sketched out plans to shine…
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Hitachi promises time travel for LLMs – just don’t lose your RAG

Joe Fay -
Hitachi Vantara is claiming to have cracked the problem of time travel in AI, though its biggest immediate challenge seems…

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer

Joe Fay -
Sandia National Labs has flipped the switch on its SpiNNaker 2 “brain-inspired” supercomputer that eschews both GPUs and internal storage.…

Green storage for the datacenter

David Gordon -
A sustainable path to capex and opex savingsIt seems like the entire world is relying on AI to improve its…

VDURA unwraps ScaleFlow to slash the flash

Joe Fay -
VDURA has launched a preview of its V-ScaleFlow data movement tech in the latest rev of its Data Platform, which…

Tech leaders struggling to store AI data, never mind manage it research shows

Joe Fay -
Four fifths of organizations have been burned by employees using Gen AI, with the leaking of sensitive data almost as…

Broadcom launches latest version of Tomahawk family at datacenters

Joe Fay -
Broadcom has launched the latest generation of its Tomahawk switch chip, promising to massively boost data bandwidth within datacenters while…

How open systems drive AI performance

CentML Insights Team -
An open-source philosophy and system-level optimizations prevent software and infrastructure nightmares in GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO Shang Wang Partner…

Snowflake digs out $250M to buy Crunchy to plug Postgres gap

Joe Fay -
Snowflake has hoovered up Crunchy Data, plugging what was an increasingly visible gap in the cloud data giant’s Postgres strategy.…

Dell rides AI server boom – but storage still stuck in the slow lane

Chris Mellor -
Demand for AI servers is driving up Dell revenues, but storage is the poor relation, waiting for the unstructured data…

AI transformation projects hamstrung by legacy apps and creaking data management

Joe Fay -
Aging data infrastructure is inflating the technical debt that companies need to pay down before they can move to AI.…

Storage News Roundup – June 2

Joe Fay -
The Cayman Islands could pitch itself as no-questions- asked repository for data as well as cash and assets, a government…

NetApp revenues rise to all-time highs, but can it sustain?

Chris Mellor -
Analysis: NetApp posted record revenue this quarter, helped by all-flash array sales and public cloud storage demand. In the fourth…

Latest generation LTO-10 tape arrives at Spectra Logic 

Chris Mellor -
Tape library and systems vendor Spectra Logic announced LTO-10 support across its tape library product set, but IBM’s tape drive…

Data catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme

Jacob Farmer, founder, Starfish Storage -
Starfish helps companies tap the data value buried in their file systems Starfish Storage might not be a household name…

VMware splitters help to beef up Nutanix revenues

Chris Mellor -
Nutanix enjoyed a classic beat-and-raise results pattern in its latest quarterly earnings report. Revenues in hyperconverged infrastructure software supplier Nutanix’s…

MinIO adds support for AWS’s fastest S3 API

Chris Mellor -
MinIO is supporting AWS’s fastest S3 storage tier to offer object data access for AI and data-intensive analytics workloads.  S3…

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