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Commentary: Entering the Era of 256TB SSDs

Chris Evans

Chris Evans

15 Aug 2025 — 6 min read
Commentary: Entering the Era of 256TB SSDs

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Newsletter #101 - The Age of Custom Silicon

Newsletter #101 - The Age of Custom Silicon

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Intel’s missed AI opportunity for Optane – could it return?

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Today I’ve been doing some reading up on NVIDIA ICMSP, or Inference Context Memory Storage Platform.  The technology is a new solution that uses NVIDIA BlueField-4 intelligent NICs to store AI inferencing model context data in a key-value store on persistent storage, such as NVMe SSDs. I won’t

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lock-1 By Chris Evans 02 Feb 2026
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VAST Data recently announced a Flash Reclamation Programme, aimed at repurposing solid-state media capacity to work with VAST’s storage operating system.  Is this move symptomatic of the industry, or a challenge for a software-only provider that explicitly chose to exit the hardware market? Background In a response to the

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