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Kioxia killing off old NAND chippery
1+ week, 4+ day ago (207+ words) Kioxia has issued an EOL (End-of_life) notice for its third generation 3D NAND products, ones with 64 layers. We understand that the background here is the rise in demand for TLC, and QLC, NAND with much higher layer counts, such as Kioxia's…...
Remote NetApp array over photonic link nears local access speed
1+ week, 2+ day ago (241+ words) A proof of concept (PoC) has shown that metro-distance access to a NetApp flash array is almost as fast as local access with GPU training time increases of less than 1 percent over 3,000 km. The PoC also shows that cheaper power…...
Halcyon days for HYCU as the pair link up on ransomware pitch
2+ week, 1+ day ago (177+ words) HYCU says that joint customers will be able to: HYCU recently added malware scanning for Amazon EC2 and Azure backups, helping customers confirm clean restore points and recover with confidence. Both Halcyon and HYCU are Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) businesses and…...
EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG: Reclaiming control of the enterprise data warehouse
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (720+ words) For many enterprises, the data warehouse has shifted from strategic asset to operational liability. Decades-old proprietary platforms such as Teradata, alongside cloud-only services including Snowflake, have delivered scale and performance. But they have done so at the cost of vendor…...
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4+ day, 4+ hour ago (12+ words) Walrus pitches MemWal as decentralized storage for AI agent memory'Blocks & Files...
Memory and SSD shortage will end in tiers, say storage vendors
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (417+ words) WEKA and Hammerspace have issued guides on how to respond to the memory and SSD supply shortages and price hikes that now appear endemic. Both focus on tiering and on using existing media more effectively. A NetApp blog similarly offers…...
Micron makes Crucial decision: Farewell
1+ week, 2+ day ago (417+ words) So long and thanks for all the flash. Micron is walking away from its Crucial-branded consumer SSD business to concentrate on its mainstream memory and SSD operations. EVP and Chief Business Officer Sumit Sadana said: "The AI-driven growth in the…...
Sony suspends memory card orders amid tight NAND supply
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (735+ words) Sony suspends memory card business amid tight NAND supply'Blocks & Files Sony suspends memory card orders amid tight NAND supply Sony says it will no longer take orders for its memory card products due to its inability to secure supplies. Sony…...
Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (584+ words) More recently, the market has tightened further. TrendForce projects that server DRAM contract prices could rise as much as 9095 percent quarter-over-quarter in early 2026, as hyperscalers and AI infrastructure absorb a growing share of global supply. For infrastructure teams, that shift…...
Nvidia and its partners' KV Cache extenders
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (1739+ words) Nvidia upset the AI inferencing memory KV Caching applecart with its latest CMX concept and STX reference architecture at the GTC 2026 event. Suppliers like VAST Data had their way forward eased. Others like Hammerspace and WEKA, who had placed bets…...