Kumo.AI trains foundation model for relational databases
Kumo.AI has built an AI foundational model for relational database management systems (RDBMS). What does this mean?
AI foundation models are neural network frameworks, typically using transformer architectures, behind large...
Storage News Ticker – 22 August
Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says...
VAST targets data sprawl with new SyncEngine utility
VAST Data has built software to find, catalog, and capture file and object data in other suppliers' storage and data management systems, bringing it into VAST's private, AI-focused universe.
VAST...
Kioxia daisy-chains flash ‘beads’ into HBF prototype for edge servers
Kioxia has prototyped a high-speed flash drive for edge servers with serially connected flash "beads" using the PCIe 6 bus.
The edge servers are envisaged to be mobile edge units,...
Druva adds AI agents to DruAI for faster, simpler cyber resilience
Data protection supplier Druva is adding a group of agents to its DruAI suite to bolster cyber resilience with greater speed, simplicity, and confidence.
The autonomous agents, built with Amazon Bedrock...
Finchetto and its optical packet switch: you can’t store light
The fundamental problem of an optical packet switch is that light cannot be stored. A light beam carrying a data packet cannot be stored and then sent on its...
Storage news ticker – August 19
Dell is using Kioxia’s 245.76 TB LC9 QLC SSD with its PCIe Gen 5 interconnect in its PowerEdge servers. Arun Narayanan, SVP, Compute and Networking, Dell Technologies, said: “SSDs...
Dell plugs Elasticsearch and Nvidia Blackwell GPUs into AI Data Platform
To accelerate customer AI pipelines and workloads, Dell has integrated its AI Data Platform with Elasticsearch. At the same time, the PowerEdge R7725 server runs the Nvidia RTX Pro...
Databricks funding blitzkrieg with <$100 billion valuation
Databricks cloud-based lakehouse business is growing so fast that a fresh funding round at a $100 billion-plus valuation is being closed, and the CEO dreams of it becoming a...
Finchetto sees the light, develops optical switch
When an optical cable terminates at a switch, its photons are transformed into electrons and digital circuitry receives and processes the light signals. How much faster things would be...
Sandisk gets back to growth
Sandisk recovered from its poor previous quarter with a 12 percent sequential revenue rise as NAND undersupply enabled it to raise prices.
Revenues in the final fiscal 2025 quarter, ended...
Shhh. Lenovo’s silent Infinidat acquisition
If you look for any mention of storage or the ongoing Infinidat acquisition in Lenovo’s latest and record results you will be disappointed. The S word is just not...