Oxide ships first 'cloud computers' and awaits customer scale-up

Antony Savvas -
Oxide Computer Company ships on-premises hyperscale "cloud computers." These machines are aimed at the government, financial services, e-commerce, and service…
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Cloud storage slinger Wasabi sets up Italian region

Chris Mellor -
Cloud storage provider Wasabi is setting up an Italian region in partnership with Italian telco Retelit. Wasabi has a dual…

Elastic Playground facility aims to reduce hallucinations in LLMs

Chris Mellor -
Data search supplier Elastic is attempting to make it easier for developers to stop large language models (LLMs) from generating…

Australia launches Virga cluster with Dell AI rackservers for health research

Chris Mellor -
Dell XE9640 AI rackservers are being used in Australia’s Virga cluster, with a BeeGFS flash backing store, to improve cystic…

Kioxia sampling highest capacity NAND chip at 2 terabits

Chris Mellor -
Kioxia is sample shipping 2 terabit NAND chips, the highest capacity NAND chips available. They have a QLC (4bits/cell) design…

Qdrant unveils hybrid vector algorithm for improved RAG

Chris Mellor -
Open source vector database supplier Qdrant has developed its own BM42 search algorithm combining vector and standard BM25 keyword search…

Samsung takes on Solidigm with 61.44 TB QLC SSD

Chris Mellor -
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as seen with the Samsung BM1743, a 61.44 TB QLC SSD that competes…

NetApp intros AI-driven ransomware detection

Chris Mellor -
NetApp is previewing an ONTAP AI-powered automated ransomware protection service, which a UK-based testing lab says detects 99 percent of…

Odaseva bags $54M to enhance Salesforce data security

Antony Savvas & Chris Mellor -
Salesforce data security and backup platform Odaseva has sealed a $54 million Series C equity financing round, bringing its total…

Storage news ticker – July 1

Chris Mellor -
Cloud-native data protector Alcion has joined Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Venture Network as an inaugural startup partner. Several members of its…

Illumex secures $13M to combat chatbot hallucinations

Chris Mellor -
Israeli startup Illumex is focused on getting an organization’s structured data involved in stopping GenAI chatbot hallucinations and has just…

Datadog puts a leash on Kubernetes cloud costs

Antony Savvas -
Cloud monitoring firm Datadog has unveiled its Kubernetes Autoscaling service, a set of capabilities that intelligently automate resource optimization. The…

Infinidat launches automated cyber resiliency system

Antony Savvas -
Enterprise storage biz Infinidat has officially launched an automated cyber resiliency and recovery system that it claims will “revolutionize” how…

SK hynix unveils high-speed SSD for AI PCs

Chris Mellor -
Korean memory manufacturer SK hynix is rolling out a sprint-speed SSD for AI PCs. An AI PC is designed to…

SingleStore makes it easier for firms to put Iceberg data to work

Antony Savvas -
SingleStore has added bi-directional integration with data lake Apache Iceberg, to help users get to the data easier, and enable…

Denodo updates key for growing AI data customer demand

Antony Savvas -
Data management platform Denodo is the latest provider to update its technology to address ever more AI workloads. Denodo Platform…

Micron revenues soar amid surging AI demand

Chris Mellor -
Micron revenues rose 81.5 percent year-on-year in its latest quarter as demand for AI server memory rocketed skywards. Revenue for…

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