Macronix intros compute-in-NAND storage
NOR and NAND flash vendor Macronix has devised FortiX technology for AI-focused computation inside flash chips.
The Taiwan-based company presented this concept at the FMS 2022 event in Santa Clara...
Storage news ticker – July 21
There is a report published by the Active Archive Alliance: "The Active Archiving Ecosystem: Building a Flexible Archival Repository Your Way," which argues the case for all kinds of...
2nd generation Samsung SmartSSD gets smarter
Samsung has announced a second and more powerful generation of its SmartSSD Computational Storage Drive (CSD) that it says cuts scan-heavy database query processing time by more than 50...
CXL memory pools: Just how big can they be?
CXL 2.0 will enable memory pooling, which sounds great, but a bit vague. How big can the memory pools be? There is no firm answer yet, but we can...
Ocient discusses hyperscale data analysis problem
Ocient reckons it has solved a niche but hyperscale data analysis problem.
Blocks & Files met Ocient founder Chris Gladwin. His company has built a massively scalable parallel-access relational database...
HPE GreenLake spreads its storage wings
HPE has expanded its public cloud-like GreenLake subscription offering under a Private Cloud Enterprise banner with eight new services: backup and recovery, block storage, compute operations management, data fabric,...
Dell builds its own partner-based data lakehouse
Dell has devised a reference architecture-type design for a combined data lake/data warehouse using third-party partner software and its own server, storage, and networking hardware and software.
Like Databricks, Dremio,...
AGI
AGI - Artificial General Intelligence. This is a term for a proposed extension of current machine learning/generative AI large language models (LLMs) such that they routinely pass Turing Tests...
Panasas has become an MLCommons collaborator to develop a machine learning storage benchmark
HPC storage supplier Panasas is working with MLCommons on how best to measure machine learning (ML) storage performance, develop an ML storage benchmark, and help develop a next generation...
Pure Storage upgrades AIRI with FlashBlade//S
Pure Storage has upgraded its combined AI infrastructure offering AIRI with FlashBlade//S storage, making it able to analyze more data faster for better machine learning models and AI insights.
When...
HPE revenues flat-line amid supply-chain woes
HPE revenues grew hardly at all in its second 2022 quarter, restrained by supply difficulties, but demand was robust and both orders and backlog grew strongly.
Revenues in the quarter...
NetApp E-Series storage certified for Nvidia SuperPod
NetApp has organized its E-Series hardware with BeeGFS software to be certified with Nvidia’s SuperPod AI powerhouse.
The all-flash EF600/BeeGFS combo has been certified for use with the DGX...