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,...
Hammerspace pushes Open Flash Platform to rethink AI data storage
Interview: The Open Flash Platform (OFP) group aims to replace all-flash arrays with directly accessed flash cartridges that have a controller DPU, Linux and parallel NFS (pNFS) software, and...
Open Flash Platform group proposes SSD-free flash storage for AI era
An Open Flash Platform (OFP) group is aiming to rewrite flash storage standards for AI by getting rid of all-flash arrays and their controllers, replacing them with shelves of...
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...
Google Cloud takes a shine to Lustre
Google Cloud Managed Lustre, based on DDN’s EXAScaler software, is now generally available.
This project was first announced in April to enable Google Cloud to offer file storage and fast...
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...
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,...
Quobyte storage powers Zoox robotaxi training
Parallel file system software Quobyte is being used by robotaxi developer Zoox to store vehicle sensor and simulation data for training the AI software controlling the vehicles.
Amazon-owned Zoox competes...
Storage news ticker – June 30
Abstract Security announced LakeVilla, a new product aimed at offering customers a cloud-native cold storage facility built for long-term security telemetry retention that delivers compliance-ready, highly accessible storage at...