PEAK:AIO targets underserved AI workloads with cost-effective storage
Interview: AI-focused storage startup PEAK:AIO talked about its recognition of small-scale datacenter AI processing needs in part one of a briefing. We continued the briefing with a deeper dive...
Why Hitachi Vantara partners with both Hammerspace and WEKA
Hitachi Vantara has agrrements with Hammerspace and WEKA, two companies supplying fast file data delivery services. Why does it need both?
Hitachi Vantara became Hammerspace’s first major systems supplier earlier...
Storage News Ticker – 26 November
45Drives has announced the Stornado F16, its most powerful storage server to date. It has a 2RU chassis with:
AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon CPUs, expandable to 4TB of memory,...
Hammerspace hammers MLPerf Storage benchmark results
Hammerspace claims it has set new records in the MLPerf Storage 1.0 benchmark with its Tier 0 storage beating DDN Lustre more than 16x at the same client count.
The...
PEAK:AIO finding widespread use of small language models in sub-20 GPU datacenters
Interview: PEAK:AIO says on-prem small language model (SML) AI training is practical for specific subject areas because it serves locally stored data to GPU servers.
Contrary to a common idea...
Storage news ticker – November 22
Cloud backup and storage supplier Backblaze announced the launch of a proposed follow-on public offering of $30,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, Backblaze expects...
IBM updates Storage Ceph platform across the board
IBM Storage Ceph is a software-defined storage platform for enterprises that combines the open source Ceph storage system with a management platform, deployment utilities, and support services. Storage Ceph...
Qumulo lays claim to ‘fastest’ enterprise cloud data platform title after hitting 1 TB/sec
Qumulo says its Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS achieved over a terabyte per second throughput and more than one million IOPS using standard Network File System clients.
The company's Core...
Quantum wants to claw its way back to profitability – and growth
Analysis. Quantum has been wading through the mire. After two reverse stock splits, a hyperscaler tape system buying stop, a second set of financial reporting problems, and an abrupt...
Hitachi Vantara adds Nvidia HGX GPUs to iQ framework
Hitachi Vantara is making Nvidia’s HGX part of its IQ GenAI infrastructure range.
The main storage system suppliers are all scrambling to provide customers with reference architecture-type frameworks that place...
DDN supplying storage for xAI’s Colossus supercomputer
DDN storage is being used in an expansion phase of Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus supercomputer.
Grok is xAI’s name for its large language model, while Colossus is the GPU server-based...
Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//S500 gains Nvidia SuperPOD certification
Pure Storage has announced certification of its FlashBlade//S500 storage with Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD along with a new GenAI Pod system for inferencing.
The FlashBlade//S500 is a high-end, performance-optimized FlashBlade system,...