Spinning rust? No, now Seagate’s working with DNA
Seagate has kicked off a collaboration with DNA storage pioneer Catalog Technologies Inc to shrink the start-up’s technology for encoding data into the stuff of life itself from room...
Hitachi Vantara says SQream if you want your data to go faster
Hitachi Vantara has turned to Tel Aviv for a speed boost when it comes to crunching through massive data sets for analytics and delivering insight.
The Japanese data giant is...
Storage news ticker – September 5
ATTO Technology’s ExpressSAS H1280 GT PCIe 4.0 12Gb/s SAS/SATA host bus adapters are now a certified and compatible solution on the HPE Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) website, the...
Astera Labs now sampling Leo CXL controllers
Astera Labs is sampling CXL-connected memory expansion and pooling controllers with customers and strategic partners after interoperability testing with various CPUs, GPUs, and DRAM modules.
Computer Express Link (CXL), based...
E2
E2 - Enterprise and Datacenter Device Form Factor E2 is one of the EDSFF set. This specification defines the mechanical attributes of the E2 form factor with the goal...
Silo
Silo - a software, and sometimes, hardware-defined container for data that is not generally available to other systems and has its own access and management protocols. For example, a...
LLM
LLM - Large Language Model. Such software is used in Generative AI's machine learning process. An LLM is trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and...
CRUD
CRUD - an acronym standing for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. These four operations are the building blocks for storing data for systems and applications:
Create: The insertion of new data...
SD Express
SD Express - SD Express is a high-performance evolution of the Secure Digital (SD) memory card standard, introduced by the SD Association in June 2018 with the SD 7.0 specification. It leverages PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) and NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) protocols, commonly used in SSDs, to deliver significantly faster data transfer speeds and higher storage capacities compared to traditional SD cards.
SD Express cards are compatible with existing SD slots (SDHC, SDXC, SDUC), but require SD Express-compatible hosts to achieve full speeds. In older...
Graph Database
Graph Database - A type of database designed to store, manage, and query data as nodes (entities) and edges (relationships) in a graph structure. Unlike relational databases, which...
ANNS
ANNS - Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search - a method of finding the nearest neighbor of a given query point in a large dataset of points using various approximate nearest...
SLM
SLM - Small Language Model; the opposite of LLMs (Large Language Models). SLMs are models that fit on consumer hardware and run with low latency. Examples are Phi-3, Nemotron-H,...