Liqid composes Western Digital OpenFlex storage within and across racks
At the SC19 event Composable systems startup Liqid announced it can compose servers with Western Digital’s OpenFlex storage both within and across racks in a data centre, thanks to...
Storage revenue growth eludes HPE
HPE’s latest quarterlies show storage revenues down while hyperconverged and composable systems revenues rose.
The overall results for Q4 of HPE's fiscal 2019 are covered by El Reg. Here are...
Fungible aims to slay the CPU bogeyman with composable microprocessor
Fungible Inc, a US composable systems startup, wants to front-end every system resource with its DPU microprocessors, offloading security and storage functions from server CPUs.
The company has not announced...
Compute Express Link triumphs in the post-PCIe bus war
The Compute Express Link (CXL) bus has won the post-PCIe war and will enable disaggregated systems technology.
Alex McDonald, EMEA Chair of the SNIA, told a press briefing in London...
Dell pours Liqid fuel into AMD EPYC 7442 dragster
We already knew Liqid’s PCIe 4.0 SSD was fast - and now Liqid with Dell help has proved it.
Liqid makes composable systems using a PCIe fabric to link CPUs,...
Will NVMe become the universal block storage access protocol?
Facebook’s virtual OCP summit earlier this month hosted two provocative presentations that suggested NVMe could become a universal block access protocol. How realistic is this prospect?
The 2020 OCP Virtual...
Liqid and Broadcom deliver PCIe 4.0 CI developer kit
Composable infrastructure firm Liqid has produce a reference design kit with Broadcom for solutions that use PCIe 4.0 fabric for connectivity.
Liqid’s composable infrastructure architecture uses industry-standard data centre components...
Fungible Inc: Why you need DPUs for data-centric processing
A flurry of add-on processor startups think there is a gap between X86 CPUs and GPUs that DPUs (data processing units) can fill.
Advocates claim DPUs boost application performance by...
WD F3200 flash device is ‘open, fast, composable’
Western Digital has announced the F3200, the latest iteration of its flash fabric shared storage system for composable systems. Key takeaways? The NVMe-oF device is faster than its predecessors,...
Liqid diet boosts Dell MX7000 composable system
Dell is adding GPUs, FPGAs and NVMe storage to the MX7000 composable system via a deal with Liqid. This makes the MX7000 systems better suited for data-intensive applications such...
Fungible Inc: Our DPU composes much smaller data centre bills
Fungible, a California composable systems startup, claims its technology will save $67 out of every $100 of data centre total cost of ownership on network, compute and storage resources.
The...
Fungible Inc. scoops up Cloudistics assets
Fungible, the data processing unit (DPU) unit chip startup, has bought the assets of a data centre composability business called Cloudistics for an undisclosed sum.
The company said the "Cloudistics...