HPE Alletra X10000 redefines scale-out hardware
Analysis: The Alletra MP X10000 object storage system from HPE is representative of a new class of scale-out storage hardware with a disaggregated shared everything (DASE) architecture pioneered by VAST...
A VAST effort: Data estate vectorization and storage for the AI era
All data storage companies are having to respond to the wave of generative AI and intelligent agents interrogating an organization’s data estate, be it block, file, or object, and...
VDURA: AI training and inference needs optimized file and object balance
Much interest has been sparked across the storage world by assertions that object storage is best for AI training and inference, rather than file storage. VAST Data co-founder Jeff...
Storage news ticker – February 7
Alluxio Enterprise AI v3.5 accelerates AI model training and streamlines operations with a new Cache Only Write Mode to accelerate checkpoints, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK integrations....
Hammerspace challenges object storage norms for AI
Data orchestrator Hammerspace is challenging the conventional wisdom that object storage is the optimal solution for AI training and inference, arguing that universal, protocol-agnostic data access is far more...
WEKA restructures for the GenAI era
Scale-out file system provider WEKA is laying off 50 employees roles, according to sources, as it restructures go-to-market functions in the era of generative AI.
CEO Liran Zvibel blogged about...
Qumulo takes on mainstream data fabric suppliers
Qumulo has launched Cloud Data Fabric (CDF), a central file and object data core repository with coherent cache at the edge.
Scale out file system supplier Qumulo has unified its...
Panzura’s upgraded software has halfway-house high availability and faster remote office data access
Just two months after Panzura released v8.4 of its CloudFS core technology, it has pumped out v8.5, claiming it delivers instant recovery and “unparalleled resilience.”
CloudFS is the underlying global...
VAST Data: ‘No one needs a file system for AI training’
VAST Data co-founder Jeff Denworth posted on X that: “No one needs a file system for AI training… More specifically, no one needs a system that is *only* a...
Very large AI model training uses object storage
HPC expert Glenn Lockwood says that the largest AI language models are being trained with object storage, not file storage.
AI model training needs unstructured data. Most unstructured data is...
Storage news ticker – February 3
The UK-based part of Rubrik Backup-as-a-Service supplier ADP (Assured Data Protection) is partnering cyber-security, comms and tech MSP Wavenet – the UK's largest independent IT MSP – to provide...
Quantum seeks to strengthen balance sheet with SEPA share sale deal
Nasdaq-listed storage player Quantum has struck a standby equity purchase agreement (SEPA) with Yorkville Advisors Global.
The deal will give Quantum access to additional equity capital and liquidity. Limited initially...