Microsoft advances toward glass-based archival storage
Project Silica, a Microsoft plan to store multiple layers of archival data inside slabs of quartz glass, is getting closer to becoming a product, as a 16-page document explains.
Microsoft's...
Nebulon unveils compact DPU for edge servers
Nebulon has developed a Data Processing Unit (DPU) specifically for edge servers, enabling their CPUs to fully focus on running applications.
A couple of weeks after launching its Medusa2 DPU...
Accelerating High-Bandwidth Memory to light speed
Accelerated processors like GPUs could get faster memory access by using light-based data transfer and by directly mounting High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on a processor die.
HBM came into...
Hammerspace hammering out AI ref architecture
Data orchestrator Hammerspace has produced an AI reference architecture (RA) and is testing its GPUDirect compliance.
Hammerspace provides a global parallel filesystem enabling data in globally distributed and disparate sites...
Storage news ticker – November 15
Aerospike released v7.0 of its real-time, multi-model database with a new unified storage format and other in-memory database enhancements. The unified storage format provides the flexibility to choose the...
Liqid unveils single server reference architecture with 16 GPUs
Liqid launched a reference architecture at SC23 to build a composable system with a Dell PowerEdge server fitted with up to 16 Nvidia GPUs.
The UltraStack L40S scheme is based...
Nebulon’s Medusa2 DPU casts snake eyes at enterprise server fleet customers
Nebulon has ported its niche server-management card functionality to an OEM Nvidia BlueField 3-based data processing unit (DPU) and so become a fully-fledged DPU supplier – offloading security, networking,...
Storage news ticker Oct 19
It’s the season for reports as suppliers try to pump up their relevance in a crowded market.
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Alluxio introduced Alluxio Enterprise AI, a high-performance data platform for making data available...
Cerio datacenter composability tech uses decoupled PCIe
Rockport Networks, rebranded as Cerio, is to roll out composable datacenter IT infrastructure that goes beyond a single PCIe domain.
Startup Rockport has developed switchless and flat network technology for...
CERN’s exabyte-plus of data needs exabyte-class EOS filesystem
The reason that CERN, Europe's atom-smashing institution, can store more than an exabyte of online data comes down to its in-house EOS filesystem.
EOS was created by CERN staff in...