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The AI Data Cycle: Understanding the Optimal Storage Mix for AI Workloads at Scale
While AI is transforming lives and inspiring a world of new applications, at its core, it’s fundamentally about data utilization and data generation. As the AI industry builds-out a massive new infrastructure to tra Read more…
Legacy Data Architectures Holding GenAI Back, WEKA Report Finds
While large language models (LLMs) have kickstarted an exciting new phase in AI, companies are not able to satisfy their GenAI goals due to several factors, with poor quality data and legacy data architectures chief amon Read more…
MinIO Debuts DataPod, a Reference Architecture for Exascale AI Storage
The number of companies planning to store an exabyte of data or more is skyrocketing, thanks to the AI revolution. To help streamline the storage buildouts and calm queasy CFO stomachs, MinIO last week proposed a referen Read more…
Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?
A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…
Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data
“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…
News In Brief
Big Data Heads to the Moon
For most people in IT, “the edge” conjures images of small computers housed in retail outlets, hospitals, or maybe an oil rig. But the word takes on an entirely new meaning for Lonestar Data Holdings, which today too Read more…
VAST Data Expands Platform With Block Storage And Real-Time Event Streaming
VAST Data, a company specializing in high-performance data platforms for AI and large-scale data processing, has made a couple of significant announcements related to unifying real-time data processing and storage. Th Read more…
Confluent and Databricks Join Forces to Bridge AI’s Data Gap
Enterprise data is scattered across various platforms in different formats across diverse data streams and repositories. This complexity makes it challenging to connect operational and analytical systems, which often rem Read more…
Redgate’s Report Suggests a Year of Consolidation in Database Management
With data volume and complexity continuing to rise rapidly, businesses are striving to achieve greater efficiency by reevaluating their database strategies. Instead of expanding their data stacks, many businesses are pri Read more…
Solidigm Celebrates World’s Largest SSD with ‘122 Day’
Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world's largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack. In honor of that massive feat of data, the Read more…
This Just In
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2025 — Supermicro, Inc. today announced a new optimized storage server for high-performance software-defined storage workloads. This first-of-its-class storage server from a major Tier 1 provider utilizes Supermicro’s system design expertise to create a high-density storage server for software-defined workloads found in AI and ML training and inferencing, analytics and enterprise storage workloads. Read more…
March 20, 2025 — NVIDIA this week announced the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, a customizable reference design that leading providers are using to build a new class of AI infrastructure for demanding AI inference workloads: Read more…
SAN JOSE, Calif. and CAMPBELL, Calif., March 19, 2025 — WEKA has announced it is integrating with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and has achieved NVIDIA storage certifications to provide optimized AI infrastructure for the future of agentic AI and reasoning models. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19, 2025 — Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has announced Hitachi iQ M Series, the latest addition to the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure solutions. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19, 2025 — Pure Storage has announced it is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into its FlashBlade platform, expanding its commitment to deliver validated, enterprise-grade scalable, AI-ready solutions for customers that meet NVIDIA‘s rigorous standards. Read more…