VAST Data expands into block storage and event broking
VAST Data has added block access to its existing file and object protocol support along with Kafka event broking to provide real-time data streaming to AI, ML, and analytic...
How constant frustration drives storage developments
Comment Storage is always in flux, from underlying media to new ways to access on-drive storage and specialized large language model databases. Workloads need more data. They need it...
HPE Alletra X10000 redefines scale-out hardware
Analysis: The Alletra MP X10000 object storage system from HPE is representative of a new class of scale-out storage hardware with a disaggregated shared everything (DASE) architecture pioneered by VAST...
Flash-centric Regatta OLxP database working on faster access for AI agents
Israeli startup Regatta is building a scale-out, transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP) relational database (OLxP) with extensibility to semi-structured and unstructured data. The company says it is a drop-in replacement...
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...
HPE hits $8.5B quarterly revenue driven by AI server boom and Alletra storage
HPE revenues for Q4 2024 rose 15 percent to a record $8.5 billion boosted by AI server sales and Alletra storage arrays.
It reported GAAP net income of $1.34 billion,...
Scaling the AI frontier and powering the future of innovation
COMMISSIONED: What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI - processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? The short answer is: both.
But having the right infrastructure is the...
Cisco not included in Nvidia AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
Analysis. Cisco has announced an Nvidia-based GPU server for AI workloads plus plug-and-play AI PODs that have “optional” storage, though Cisco is not included in Nvidia’s Enterprise Reference Architecture...
Kioxia to present fresh DRAM, SCM, and NAND tech in December
Kioxia engineers are presenting new DRAM storage-class memory and 3D-NAND technologies at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2024 conference in San Francisco, December 7-11.
The company fabricates NAND chips...
Startup provides AI data as a service from its own abstracted metadata
Startup View has built what it says is a fast-to-deploy AI stack starting with semantic cells in multi-type data sources, a Universal Data Representation (UDR), its own object storage,...
Global file technology iRODS aims for wider commercial reach
Global file management system iRODS (Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System) is aiming to extend its reach in the commercial sector, breaking out of its predominant university ecosystem.
While the iRODS Consortium...
Storage hacks for hungry GPUs
COMMISSIONED: In the fast-paced world of AI, GPUs are often hailed as the quiet powerhouse driving innovation.
They’re the brainpower behind everything from chatbots and self-driving cars to algorithms detecting...