Scality: AI-focused RING XP runs circles around slow object storage
Scality’s all-flash RING XP provides GPUDirect class object storage for AI workloads, enabling it to compete with file systems in pumping data to GPU servers.
The RING is Scality’s core...
Paradigm4’s flexFS puts fast file front end on cloud object storage
Object storage is ill-suited to supporting AI, ML, and HPC workloads because it can't pump data fast enough to the many processors involved. File systems can do that but...
Storage news ticker – October 28
Airbyte announced a new connector to Databricks' Delta Lake that replicates data from any source. Airbyte says it enables organizations to replicate data into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform...
View’s AI data-as-a-service: part 2
View is developing a AI that can ingest proprietary data sources rapidly, and be deployed and operated more simply than existing generative AI large language model chatbots with retrieval-augmented...
Cohesity unveils visual data explorer for Gaia assistant
Cohesity is announcing a visual data exploration capability for its Gaia generative AI product, featuring word cloud images, plus support for new data sources.
Gaia is a generative AI search...
Storage news ticker – 17 October 2024
Governance and data quality consultant Agile Lab ran a data management survey at Big Data London in September 2024. It revealed the majority of UK organizations are being held back by...
UltiHash pitches storage aiming to cut AI data bloat
German startup UltiHash has made its newly developed object storage generally available as a data store for AI-focused lakehouses.
This new object storage enters a market widely considered mature by...
Hammerspace and Parallel Works simplify AI/HPC workload orchestration
Hammerspace and Parallel Works are collaborating on a combined offering enabling IT infrastructure, research computing, and AI teams to orchestrate compute, storage, and data workloads across sites and clouds, and...
Dell expands AI factory scope with PowerScale upgrade
Dell has enhanced PowerScale scale-out clustered file system arrays with full stack components for AI factory workloads.
We have written about VAST Data’s AI stack approach, and NetApp’s AI architectural...
Wasabi CEO sees IPO ramp as firm reaches 100,000 customers
Cloud storage unicorn Wasabi says it has reached the 100,000 customer point after continuing sales growth.
The company has raised a total of $500 million since its inception in 2017,...
Storage news ticker – October 10
Analytics company Cloudera has launched Cloudera AI Inference, powered by Nvidia NIM microservices and accelerated computing (Tensor core GPUs), boosting LLM speeds by a claimed 36x. A service integration...
AI vectorization signals end of the unstructured data era
Analysis: A VAST Data blog says real-time GenAI-powered user query response systems need vector embeddings and knowledge graphs created as data is ingested, not in batch mode after the...