Storage news ticker – July 25
A 45Drives four-part video series, led by Chief Solutions Architect and Ceph Foundation board member Mitch Hall, documents the design, build, tuning, and real-world benchmarking of an all-NVMe Ceph cluster...
MinIO gives object storage a GenAI upgrade with Iceberg
Interview: MinIO is building a linking layer between its object store and GenAI and that involves embracing structure in the form of Iceberg tables. It also entails building some...
Where to point your RAG: Sourcing proprietary data for LLMs and AI agents
Analysis: There are many places within IT infrastructure that organizations can use to get a single proprietary data source for their large language models and AI agents doing RAG...
Storage news ticker – July 18
AWS said customers can boot Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts using boot volumes backed by NetApp on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage FlashArray,...
AWS adds vector buckets to S3 to cut RAG storage costs
Vector buckets have been added to AWS S3 object storage to lower the cost of having infrequently accessed vectors stored in Amazon’s OpenSearch Service.
Unstructured data is being seen as...
Cloudian plugs PyTorch into GPUDirect to juice AI training speeds
Cloudian engineers have added Nvidia GPUDirect support to a PyTorch connector to accelerate AI and machine learning workloads.
In the machine learning world, the Torch open source software library interfaces...
Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount
Beleaguered storage vendor Quantum, which replaced CEO and chairman Jamie Lerner in June and CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard earlier this month, has made “a very large reduction” in staff,...
Quantum and Chief Revenue Officer to part ways
Henk Jan Spanjaard, Quantum Corp's Chief Revenue Officer, will be the latest exec to leave the company, according to an SEC filing by the beleaguered business. The 8-K, filed...
VAST Data cracks into HPC with Doudna supercomputer win
VAST Data is supplying an AI-focussed storage system for the Doudna supercomputer, sharing the storage billing with IBM’s Storage Scale and its traditional high-performance computing (HPC) parallel file system.
Doudna...
Storage news collection – July 3
Commvault announced a strategic partnership with Bytes, “a leading provider of IT solutions across the UK and Ireland. This partnership will focus on providing the joint customer base with...
DDN on Infinia object storage and solving the POSIX problem
Interview: We spoke to DDN SVP for Products James Coomer and CTO Sven Oehme about the status of its relatively new Infinia object store and about details on its claimed...
Quantum accounting issues delay FY 2025 results
Quantum can’t file its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results because of accounting problems similar to those it experienced 18 months ago.
The company provides StorNext data management software,...