The Iceberg age: StarTree latest to adopt popular table format

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Iceberg is becoming the lingua franca of datalake table formats with StarTree the latest supplier to embrace it as a…
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Kioxia unveils highest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB

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Online storage capacity constraints are melting away with Kioxia announcing the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door…

LTO tape market rebounds in 2024 with 176.5 EB shipped

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There was 15.4 percent more LTO tape capacity shipped in 2024 compared to 2023 as growth resumed following three years…

MASV Express aims to automate complex file workflows without code

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Massive file transfer supplier MASV has an upcoming MASV Express product that can automate complex media ingest and delivery processes…

Storage news ticker – July 22

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Adeptia Connect is a business data exchange software moving data between applications, partners, and customers, supporting data integration, application integration,…

Where to point your RAG: Sourcing proprietary data for LLMs and AI agents

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Analysis: There are many places within IT infrastructure that organizations can use to get a single proprietary data source for…

Competitive Corner breaks down key shifts in 2025 Gartner backup MQ

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The Competitive Corner provides the best and most detailed analysis of vendor ratings in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ)…

ADP plots next move beyond Rubrik and Nutanix

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Storage array customers, like those using Rubrik and Nutanix, increasingly require as-a-service backup and disaster recovery. ADP is looking to…

SNIA tech review maps road to commercial DNA storage

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The SNIA’s DNA Storage Alliance has published a 52-page technology review looking at the data encode/decode tech, commercial readiness metrics,…

DDN touts Infinia storage as key to faster, cheaper AI inference

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DDN has released performance benchmarks showing it can can speed up AI processing time by 27x because of the way…

Storage news ticker – July 18

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AWS said customers can boot Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts using boot volumes backed by…

Panmnesia pushes unified memory and interconnect design for AI superclusters

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South Korea’s CXL memory-focused Panmnesia believes that AI clusters need both GPU node memory sharing and fast inter-GPU networking with…

GigaIO bags $21M to scale up composable AI server gear

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Composable server infrastructure startup GigaIO has raised $21 million in what it calls "the first tranche of its Series B…

Liqid unveils composable GPU servers with CXL 2.0 memory pooling

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Liqid has announced products enabling host server apps to access dynamically orchestrated GPU server systems built from pools of GPU,…

AWS adds vector buckets to S3 to cut RAG storage costs

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Vector buckets have been added to AWS S3 object storage to lower the cost of having infrequently accessed vectors stored…

Big orgs still treating storage security as an afterthought

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Just over half of enterprises with more than 10,000 employees have integrated storage security into their overall cybersecurity strategy, with…

Hammerspace pushes Open Flash Platform to rethink AI data storage

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Interview: The Open Flash Platform (OFP) group aims to replace all-flash arrays with directly accessed flash cartridges that have a…

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