DDN on files, objects and AI training and inference
Interview DDN has been supplying high speed file access with its EXAScaler Lustre parallel file system software for many years. This supports Nvidia’s GPUDirect protocol. It has just announced...
StorONE advances auto-tiering with AI-driven TierONE
StorONE is offering updated storage tiering with AI-powered TierONE software and improved data protection with SnapONE.
The company claims customers don’t need all-flash array (AFA) systems to get fast performance,...
DDN unveils Infinia 2.0 object storage for faster AI data pipelines
DDN has announced the Infinia 2.0 object store for AI training and inference, making big claims for up to 100x improvement in AI data acceleration and 10x gain in...
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...
Storage news roundup – 15 February 2025
Aerospike unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. V8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Aerospike says v...
Quantum reports steep losses, says better times lie ahead
Data storage supplier and protector Quantum reported a revenue upturn in its third fiscal quarter of 2025 and a massive loss as it clears the books and looks ahead.
For...
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...
A VAST effort: Data estate vectorization and storage for the AI era
All data storage companies are having to respond to the wave of generative AI and intelligent agents interrogating an organization’s data estate, be it block, file, or object, and...
VDURA: AI training and inference needs optimized file and object balance
Much interest has been sparked across the storage world by assertions that object storage is best for AI training and inference, rather than file storage. VAST Data co-founder Jeff...
Storage news ticker – February 7
Alluxio Enterprise AI v3.5 accelerates AI model training and streamlines operations with a new Cache Only Write Mode to accelerate checkpoints, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK integrations....
Hammerspace challenges object storage norms for AI
Data orchestrator Hammerspace is challenging the conventional wisdom that object storage is the optimal solution for AI training and inference, arguing that universal, protocol-agnostic data access is far more...