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...
Storage News Ticker – 8 August
Broadcom’s new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router scales to 36,000 HyperPorts, each operating at 3.2 Tb/s, with deep buffering, line-rate MACsec, and RoCE transport over 100KM+ distances. The 3.2T HyperPort...
SNIA dives into Storage.AI standards project
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is working on an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads, focusing on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches.
The SNIA...
Open Flash Platform group proposes SSD-free flash storage for AI era
An Open Flash Platform (OFP) group is aiming to rewrite flash storage standards for AI by getting rid of all-flash arrays and their controllers, replacing them with shelves of...
WEKA builds NeuralMesh architecture for exascale AI workloads
WEKA has announced a NeuralMesh transformation of its parallel file system software to accelerate AI at scale.
The basis of this is that traditional storage architectures have not been designed...
Storage news ticker – June 16
Optical character recognition (OCR) replacement tech provider Adeptia, an intelligent data automation company, announced AIDP, an AI-driven Intelligent Document Processing offering, for use in the cloud, on-prem, and in...
Nebius taps WEKA for top layer of storage in GPU farms
WEKA has struck a collaboration agreement with Nebius that will see the high end storage purveyor’s platform made available through the GPU-as-a-service vendor’s datacenters.
Netherlands-based Nebius focuses on supporting AI...
Hitachi promises time travel for LLMs – just don’t lose your RAG
Hitachi Vantara is claiming to have cracked the problem of time travel in AI, though its biggest immediate challenge seems to be whether to charge for it.
The vendor unwrapped...
Broadcom launches latest version of Tomahawk family at datacenters
Broadcom has launched the latest generation of its Tomahawk switch chip, promising to massively boost data bandwidth within datacenters while simultaneously putting a dent in power consumption.
The Tomahawk 6...
Supermicro says Fibre Channel is on the way out, but SAS lives on and...
Interview: We had the opportunity to discuss storage servers with Supermicro and find out how it designs and customizes them for its customers, and how interfaces are changing. Wendell...
Time to reassess the vSAN
PARTNER CONTENT: As IT leaders move away from VMware, they face a critical decision: do they stick with traditional storage architectures, or is now the time to finally unlock...
Storage news ticker – February 21
Cloud and backup storage provider Backblaze is partnering with Kandji to deploy Backblaze with zero-touch across a fleet of Macs to back up their data. More info here.
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SaaS backup...