Storage.AI focuses on data-handling efficiency after packets reach their destinations. Founding members include AMD, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, NetApp, and Pure Storage.

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage.

Pure Storage says spinning disk is doomed, and only it can provide a replacement. We look at the rationale behind its bold message, and the possible impacts of such a scenario ...