NeuroBlade aims to be ‘the Nvidia of data analytics’
Hyperscalers who use SQL processing units (SPUs) to offload x86 CPUs running analytics workloads could get a 100x or more acceleration of their jobs, enabling lower costs and more efficient...
AI: Intelligent data needs intelligent solutions
AI is becoming a major data management challenge for IT and business leaders, according to just published research.
Companies are largely allowing employee use of generative AI, but two-thirds (66...
Project Monterey: No word yet on Broadcom backing
Project Monterey, the joint venture between Dell, VMware, and Nvidia to put vSphere on a DPU (data processing unit) to offload storage and networking tasks from a host x86...
UK startup wins gong for accelerating CPU memory access
UK startup BlueShift Memory has won an FMS 2023 Most Innovative Memory Technology award for its memory accelerating FPGA that it claims offers up to 1,000 times speed up...
Using SSD data placement to lessen SSD write amplification
Analysis: ZNS and FDP are two technologies for placing data more precisely on SSDs to lengthen their working life and improve performance. How do they work? Will both be...
The challenges and opportunities for high-end storage
Interview Rob Young serves as a storage architect at Mainline Information Systems, a Florida-based company specializing in systems design, development, consultancy, and services. With a rich legacy in IBM...
Storage old guard needs to have its cache and eat it too
Comment: Legacy external hardware-based storage suppliers need to adapt to technology threats to their businesses from three incomers – Infinidat, Pure Storage and VAST Data.
Update. Dell PowerMax gen 2...
4 ways CIOs can optimize IT and boost business value
Commissioned: The current economic uncertainty has cautious CIOs tucking in for tough times.
Although still important for brand viability and competitiveness, potentially transformative digital projects and so-called moonshoots appear to...
3.4 times more Oracle MySQL transactions with Pliops’ SSD array controller
Host-based SSD controller array startup Pliops says it has boosted Oracle MySQL transactions/sec 3.4 times with its XDP product offloading server CPUs.
Update: Pliops question answers added in Bootnote. March...
Storage news collection – 17 February
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Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support releases with a support lifetime of up to three years. They are...