At the FMS 2026 Conference, discussions centered on the AI supercycle and its impact on the IT industry, particularly through HBM and DRAM shortages. Innovations like KV cache offload and MRAM advancements were also highlighted. Despite rising prices, demand for memory remains high, especially for AI applications.

Jason Goldschmidt and Nick Connolly, co-chairs of SNIA's Accelerated Object TWG, discussed the importance of S3 over RDMA for AI processing. SNIAs work addresses industries need for faster data transfer to improve GPU utilization during model training and inferencing.

Solidigm's presentation at AIFD8 highlighted prompt processing activity and how this relates to context token growth and KV store activities. As KV store grows, offloading parts of it to DRAM, local or networked storage can speed up LLM processing because it doesn't have to recalculate its KV store every time it stops and waits for other activities.

Changing your phone display to B&W can reduce your screen time. So what else could use the same hack...

Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards

How R/R track deployment 1850-1950 can explain AI rollout today.

Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it’s early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Li…

Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it's early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Listen to our YE podcast to learn more.

At AIFD7, Articul8 AI presented a unique non-GenAI solution for industry-specific challenges. On our podcast, Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, Articul8 discussed how they deploy domain-specific models across verticals. Their technology ingests and maps corporate data plus business processes to help automate and augment those business critical systems of record. Listen to the podcast to learn more...

SNIA's Storage.AI community is focused on addressing AI data challenges through industry standards. Dr. J discussed some of the current SNIA work going on to address AI IO challenges and identified more to come. The standards process is not the only way forward but often it can help industry advance. Listen to the podcast to learn more.

At AIIFD3, Hammerspace talked about the Open Flash Platform (OFP) initiative, which redefines NAS, for increasing NAND capacities, ubiquitous compute and extreme networking bandwidth, targeted for AI. The DPU-based NFSv3 server will supply up to 24PB in 1RU with coming E2(E) SSDs, optimizing power, capacity and networking to address AI storage performance.

At FMS25 there was lots of discussion on HBM, QLC&SCM SSDs, UAlink/UEC, UCIe for SSDs and liquid cooled m.2 SSDs, listen to the podcast to learn more.

Scale has worked wonders for current foundation models regardless of the cost. But at some point scale can't help anymore. The time is near to consider alternatives to scale, especially as we attempt to create AGI. We discuss one we think might help.

During MinIO's Cloud Field Day 23 presentation they questioned whether object storage gateways offered strong consistency for large objects. The post talks about my views on this.

Nietzsche’s, the “Last Man”, is a future where automation & technology leads to a life of unchallenged leisure, devoid of struggle and growth. AGI and SuperIntelligence, at b…

Nietzsche’s, the “Last Man”, is a future where automation & technology leads to a life of unchallenged leisure, devoid of struggle and growth. AGI and SuperIntelligence, at b…

Deepmind’s AlphaEvolve uses genetic and other techniques via GeminiFlash and GeminiPro to evolve code for the better. It evaluates changes using supplied scoring algorithms and has resulted i…

We discuss a new article, “Welcome to the Era of Experience” which depicts an approach to attain super-human intelligence for LLM agents.

GreyBeards talk Agentic AI with Kamiwaza's CEO, Luke Norris. The world of large enterprise IT is about to undergo another revolution and Kamiwaza AI seems to be leading the charge.

Ongoing ocean sensing is a crucial need for the world’s scientific community. Silverton Space will pivot to supplying this need as a 1st step to eventually orbiting cubesats.

Information networks in the form of the story and printed documents has lead to the vast expansion of human society beyond the tribe. But a new, non-human actor is present, today. AI has already ca…