Nasuni revamps exec team as president exits
Incoming CEO Sam King is reshaping Nasuni, bringing in new sales, marketing, and customer success chiefs as President David Grant exits.
The company supplies cloud file services and has a...
Huawei preps AI SSD to ease GPU memory bottlenecks
Huawei is reportedly about to launch an AI SSD that will work with its Unified Cache Manager (UCM) software to offload key-value (KV) cache data from a GPU’s high...
Project Lightning brings parallel performance boost to Dell PowerScale
Dell’s parallelization of its PowerScale clustered file system storage is proceeding apace as a Dell spokesperson told us: “We’ve received positive feedback on Project Lightning in early access, stay...
Sk hynix plants flag in ultra-high-cap SSD area
SK hynix says it’s going to produce ultra-high-capacity, high-performance SSDs for AI servers by using its 321-layer 3D NAND in QLC format.
SK hynix is beginning mass production of a...
Adeptia: AI agents won’t replace SaaS apps
Interview:. Adeptia automates the handling of data exchanged between businesses using, for example, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) methods. It calls this first-mile data and speeds adoption and processing. Co-founder...
Kumo.AI trains foundation model for relational databases
Kumo.AI has built an AI foundational model for relational database management systems (RDBMS). What does this mean?
AI foundation models are neural network frameworks, typically using transformer architectures, behind large...
Storage News Ticker – 22 August
Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says...
VAST targets data sprawl with new SyncEngine utility
VAST Data has built software to find, catalog, and capture file and object data in other suppliers' storage and data management systems, bringing it into VAST's private, AI-focused universe.
VAST...
Kioxia daisy-chains flash ‘beads’ into HBF prototype for edge servers
Kioxia has prototyped a high-speed flash drive for edge servers with serially connected flash "beads" using the PCIe 6 bus.
The edge servers are envisaged to be mobile edge units,...
Druva adds AI agents to DruAI for faster, simpler cyber resilience
Data protection supplier Druva is adding a group of agents to its DruAI suite to bolster cyber resilience with greater speed, simplicity, and confidence.
The autonomous agents, built with Amazon Bedrock...
Finchetto and its optical packet switch: you can’t store light
The fundamental problem of an optical packet switch is that light cannot be stored. A light beam carrying a data packet cannot be stored and then sent on its...
Storage news ticker – August 19
Dell is using Kioxia’s 245.76 TB LC9 QLC SSD with its PCIe Gen 5 interconnect in its PowerEdge servers. Arun Narayanan, SVP, Compute and Networking, Dell Technologies, said: “SSDs...