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...
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...
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...
ULTRARAM edges toward industrial scale with IQE backing
Quinas Technology has completed a first step to volume production of its ULTRARAM universal computer memory combining the speed of DRAM, the non-volatility of NAND, and low energy consumption.
IQE...
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,...
25 years of SD card development
The removable Secure Digital (SD) flash card was first presented to the world by Sandisk, Toshiba, and Panasonic (then Matsushita) in 1999 as a way for portable electronic products, such...
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...
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...
Disk ain’t dead yet, says Ceph shop OSNexus
Interview: VAST and Solidigm are too quick to write off Ceph disk-based storage. That’s the view of Steve Umbehocker, founder and CEO of QuantaStor Ceph storage system supplier OSNexus....
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...