Why HCI shouldn’t replace AFAs
Don't replicate the inefficiencies of three-tier storage architectures in software when you can build a simpler, unified system
There's a reason hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is failing to displace all-flash arrays...
SNIA dives into Storage.AI standards project
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is working on an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads, focusing on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches.
The SNIA...
Storage news ticker – 4 August
Data manager and protector Arctera has updated its Arctera Insight Platform to reduce the compliance risks associated with AI deployments. The new capabilities enable organisations to capture the input and output...
Xinnor claims massive RAID rebuild speedup over Linux mdraid
Software RAID supplier Xinnor claims it can rebuild a 61.44 TB SSD in a little more than five hours, around 10x faster than traditional Linux RAID rebuild software.
Xinnor's xiRAID...
Phison and Sandisk deploy different tactics to smash GPU memory wall
Analysis. GPUs are hitting a memory bottleneck as model sizes outpace onboard capacity. Since GPU memory isn't scaling fast enough to meet demand, companies like Phison and Sandisk are...
Storage news ticker – July 25
A 45Drives four-part video series, led by Chief Solutions Architect and Ceph Foundation board member Mitch Hall, documents the design, build, tuning, and real-world benchmarking of an all-NVMe Ceph cluster...
Sandisk assembles advisory board to guide High Bandwidth Flash strategy
Sandisk is setting up a Technical Advisory Board to help guide the development and strategy of its High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) technology.
HBF applies the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM...
ExaGrid reports growth in deduped backup biz
ExaGrid says it's had another storming quarter, with the privately held company saying this is its 18th consecutive growth quarter selling tiered deduping backup target appliances that compete with...
SK hynix revenues go sky high with HBM
High Bandwidth memory has become a high revenue earner for Korea’s SK hynix as second 2025 quarter revenues jumped 35.4 percent year-on-year to ₩22.23 trillion ($16.23 billion).
There was a...
Kioxia unveils highest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB
Online storage capacity constraints are melting away with Kioxia announcing the largest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB, opening the door to a 200-plus petabyte rack and a five-rack exabyte...
Storage news ticker – July 22
Adeptia Connect is a business data exchange software moving data between applications, partners, and customers, supporting data integration, application integration, and B2B/EDI processes. It can be single or multi-tenant...
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...