1. VDURA claims that HDD systems have lower carbon emissions than flash arrays. 2. Michael Barrell, VDURA's senior systems architect, argues that modern HDD systems are 54-60% more favorable in terms of CO2e emissions. 3. Barrell's analysis shows significant improvements in HDD technology, with a 30TB HDD potentially having 50% lower CO2 emissions than a 12TB HDD.

1. AI PCs require more memory and storage due to intensive AI workloads; 2. There is no standard specification or reference architecture for AI PCs; 3. The hardware for AI PCs is currently ahead of the software, necessitating short-term upgrades.

1. VAST Data partners with Vapor IO to provide global AI data storage. 2. Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge combines colocation with software-defined interconnection. 3. Zero Gap AI platform offers private 5G and GPU-based micro-clouds for hyperlocal AI services.

1. Pure Storage invests in Cerabyte, a ceramic storage startup, to explore long-term archival storage solutions. 2. Cerabyte develops ceramic-coated glass tablet storage using femtosecond laser-punched pits for data representation. 3. The partnership aims to disrupt the archival storage market with sustainable and immutable data storage technologies.

1. SK hynix reported a 125% annual increase in revenue for Q2 2024, driven by high demand for HBM memory in AI applications. 2. The company plans to mass-produce 12-layer HBM3e products and launch 32 Gb DDR5 DRAM for servers. 3. SK hynix is expanding its production capacity with new fabs and aims to solidify its position in the AI memory market.

1. Micron introduces the 9550 datacenter SSD, utilizing PCIe gen 5×4 and 232-layer NAND. 2. The SSD is available in three formats: E1.S, E3.S, and U.2, designed for high performance in cloud and enterprise environments. 3. The 9550 offers significant performance improvements over its predecessors, with faster IOPS and bandwidth, and is more power-efficient in AI workloads.

1. DapuStor partners with Pliops to enhance NoSQL database performance using Pliops' XDP technology. 2. The partnership focuses on optimizing KVRocks, an open-source key-value store, for better performance and latency at petabyte levels. 3. DapuStor's R5101 SSD, combined with Pliops' XDP, shows significant improvements in random read and write IOPS, and reduces tail latency in mixed workloads.

1. Australia's CSIRO has launched the Virga cluster, a high-performance computing system using Dell XE9640 AI rackservers and BeeGFS flash storage for various health research projects, including cystic fibrosis diagnosis and treatment. 2. The Virga cluster, located at the CDC Hume Data Center in Canberra, is the first of its kind in Australia, utilizing direct liquid cooling for energy efficiency. 3. The cluster features 60,000 cores and 448 Nvidia H100 GPUs, aiming to accelerate AI performance and support large model training within days or hours.

1. Samsung introduces the BM1743, a 61.44 TB QLC SSD, competing with Solidigm's D5-P5336; 2. The BM1743 uses 176-layer NAND, offering 1,600,000/110,000 random read/write IOPS and 7.2/2.0 GBps sequential read/write bandwidth; 3. Samsung suggests a 122.88 TB model may be in development, and the BM1743 supports 0.26 DWPD and three months of power-off data retention.