Storage news ticker – March 22

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After running its IPO, Astera Labs saw its shares, initially priced at $36/share, soar by 72 percent on March 20,…
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Redis expands data management capabilities with Speedb acquisition

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Real-time in-memory database vendor Redis is acquiring Speedb and its data storage engine. A storage engine is used to write…

Quantum announces i7 Raptor tape library for hyperscalers

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Scalar tape library supplying Quantum has made an early announcement that an i7 Raptor library is coming, designed for hyperscale…

Database startup Regatta emerges from stealth mode

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Chad Sakac and fellow execs at Regatta are getting ready to discuss the OLTP and OLAP (Online Transaction Processing and…

Micron roars back to profitability thanks to AI boom

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Flash memory and storage producer Micron topped its own financial guidance for Q2 of fiscal '25 ended February 29, on…

Samsung to offer SSDs on subscription

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Samsung has published a blog discussing customers renting its petabyte-scale SSD (PBSSD) architecture products through a MinIO partnership. It's not…

Storage news ticker – March 21

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An AWS blog explains how you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This makes it easier…

CXL a no-go for AI training

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Analysis. Computer Express Link (CXL) technology has been pushed into the backseat by the Nvidia GTC AI circus, yet Nvidia's…

Storage news ticker – March 20

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Data streamer Confluent announced that its Flink service is now available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The cloud-native…

HPE pushes packet of next-gen AI products in partnership with Nvidia

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HPE is the latest vendor to roll out a portfolio of GenAI training and inference products amid plans to use…

WEKA intros turnkey appliance to plug into SuperPOD

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Parallel file system supplier WEKA has devised an on-premises WEKApod storage appliance to plug into Nvidia's SuperPOD. Update. SuperPod details updated…

Nvidia GTC storage news roundup

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Cohesity announced a collaboration with NVIDIA for its Gaia Gen AI software to include Nvidia’s NIM microservices. Gaia will be…

DDN turbocharges AI400X2 appliance to beef up AI performance

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DDN has lifted the covers off AI400X2 Turbo appliance, new AI hardware with more network ports and memory compared to…

Dell building Nvidia-powered AI Factory for business analytics

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Dell is building an Nvidia-based AI Factory so customers can use Dell servers, storage, and networking to serve proprietary data…

Nvidia powers Dataloop and NetApp AI solutions with NIM and NeMo

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NIM and NeMo Retriever microservices from Nvidia are being integrated by Dataloop and NetApp into their AI products. These microservices…

Hitachi Vantara launches industry-specific AI systems with Nvidia

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Hitachi iQ is a new set of industry-specific AI systems using Nvidia DGX and HGX GPUs and Hitachi Vantara storage.…

Pure Storage unveils anti-hallucination AI tech at Nvidia's GTC

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Pure Storage is announcing anti-hallucinatory Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) reference architectures at Nvidia’s GTC event to add an organization’s own data…

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