Dell plugs Elasticsearch and Nvidia Blackwell GPUs into AI Data Platform
To accelerate customer AI pipelines and workloads, Dell has integrated its AI Data Platform with Elasticsearch. At the same time, the PowerEdge R7725 server runs the Nvidia RTX Pro...
Databricks funding blitzkrieg with <$100 billion valuation
Databricks cloud-based lakehouse business is growing so fast that a fresh funding round at a $100 billion-plus valuation is being closed, and the CEO dreams of it becoming a...
Finchetto sees the light, develops optical switch
When an optical cable terminates at a switch, its photons are transformed into electrons and digital circuitry receives and processes the light signals. How much faster things would be...
Sandisk gets back to growth
Sandisk recovered from its poor previous quarter with a 12 percent sequential revenue rise as NAND undersupply enabled it to raise prices.
Revenues in the final fiscal 2025 quarter, ended...
Shhh. Lenovo’s silent Infinidat acquisition
If you look for any mention of storage or the ongoing Infinidat acquisition in Lenovo’s latest and record results you will be disappointed. The S word is just not...
VAST Data AI OS inside South Korea sovereign AI cloud GPU service
VAST Data is providing its AI OS, including all-flash storage, to the SK Telecom Petasus AI Cloud which provides GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) in South Korea’s sovereign AI cloud.
SK Telecom, South...
Storage and data teams need to talk
Interview. Blocks and Files is a storage-focussed outlet that has progressed, with the industry, into data access, management and AI pipeline feeding. We know, as does everyone else, that...
Arcitecta now adept at AI
Arcitecta has evolved its Mediaflux data access and management fabric to an AI-ready platform with structured and unstructured data support, a vector database, and AI model support.
MediaFlux is distributed data...
Kioxia revenues down but uplift coming
The hoped for AI uplift of SSD revenues can’t come soon enough for Kioxia which reported another consecutive down quarter, but there are encouraging signs in the revenue weeds.
Revenues...
Storage news round-up – 11 August
Open-source storage hardware supplier 45Drives has a strategic partnership with LINBIT, creators of DRBD and LINSTOR, to deliver fully-integrated, enterprise-grade high-availability (HA) storage systems built on open-source technologies. It...
YanRong excels at 3D U-Net, hits 513 GB/s in MLPerf Storage benchmark
Chinese supplier YanRong says it’s set an AI benchmark record in the newly-released MLPerf Storage v2.0 results. Its all-flash F9000X appliance, running its self-developed distributed and parallel file system...
Storage News Ticker – 8 August
Broadcom’s new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router scales to 36,000 HyperPorts, each operating at 3.2 Tb/s, with deep buffering, line-rate MACsec, and RoCE transport over 100KM+ distances. The 3.2T HyperPort...