SSD prices shoot up with more rises predicted for 2026
Flash SSD prices jumped sharply this quarter as NAND chip costs surged, driven by AI-fuelled demand and tight supplier control, while HDD prices stayed mostly […]
AI and storage
Solidigm: NAND demand soars as cloud providers underestimate AI inferencing
Cloud and enterprise AI workloads are generating far more inference data than expected, driving a sudden spike in NAND demand, flash prices, and pressure on […]
Hammerspace drives ‘em “crazy” with global namespace, performance and GPU data placement
Hammerspace unifies storage across vendors into one high-performance namespace, cutting costs and feeding AI/GPU workloads at speed—leaving traditional storage players frustrated Hammerspace is driving other […]
Veeam tools up in the cyber-resilience arms race but people and processes are still speed bumps
Veeam’s Data Platform 13 boosts AI-driven threat detection and resilience, but execs admit true zero-time recovery isn’t realistic despite strong immutable-backup protection. Veeam’s latest updates […]
How AI impacts storage: Key features of AI workloads and the storage it needs
We look at the key characteristics of AI workloads, its needs in terms of I/O, storage capacity, object vs file, cloud vs on-prem, and the […]
Vector databases: The hidden engine of AI
Vector databases power modern AI by storing and searching high-dimensional data. Learn how vector embeddings work, their effect on data storage, plus a survey of […]