It’s graphic – Fungible composes GPU-as-a-service offering
Fungible has announced GPU-Connect with its DPU dynamically composing GPU resources across an Ethernet network, enabling cloud and managed service providers to offer GPUs-as-a-service.
The startup has specially designed data...
Storage news ticker – March 30
Data storage management software biz Open-E has certified Kioxia’s FL6 NVMe SSD series with its flagship ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS data storage software. A solution document has details.
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Kioxia is sampling new...
Liqid composes MemVerge DRAM and Optane memory pools
Composable systems supplier Liqid has added MemVerge’s BigMemory technology to its disaggregated resources list, enabling it to compose memory plus storage-class memory, like Optane, into its servers.
Liqid’s software composes...
Storage news ticker – March 23
Storage powerhouse DDN is working on a reference architecture with Nvidia to have its A3I A1400X2 EXAScaler array, announced last November, integrated with Nvidia's DGX A100 GPU server.
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HPE has...
Liqid pours GPUs, NVMe storage into ThinkTank
Liqid has announced general availability of its ThinkTank composable disaggregated infrastructure platform, which it says will restore the balance between expensive storage and even more expensive GPUs.
The company’s take...
Storage news ticker – 11 March
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DCIG president and founder Jerome Wendt has blogged about the Five Challenges of Managing Air-gapped Technologies Using Backup Software. We’ve not seen this issue raised elsewhere. He says storing...
Lightbits Labs heading towards the public cloud and MSPs
Now in its seventh year, Lightbits Labs is broadening its scope from being an NVMe/TCP-focused storage vendor to becoming a data services supplier which happens to use NVMe/TCP as...
Compose yourself: Liqid gets unicorn-class funding boost
Composable systems startup Liqid has had a massive $100 million funding round to take its datacentre do-more-with-less message mainstream.
The company sells composable systems software and hardware with which users...
Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021
$5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies.
We charted the...
Fungible ups its hero DPU storage bandwidth stats by half – now claims...
Fungible has increased its NVMe/TCP storage-to-server bandwidth from 6.55 million to 10 million IOPS by replacing Mellanox NICS with its own Storage Initiator cards, and claimed a world record.
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Element invisibility in composable systems: PCIe vs Ethernet
There are granularity consequences of the network fabric choices made by composable systems suppliers. Go the PCIe route and you can compose elements inside a server as well as...
Liqid composability flows into VMware through vCenter plugin
VMware vCenter users can now dynamically compose servers on which to run virtual machine (VM) workloads with a Liqid software plug-in.
Traditionally vCenter users create virtual machines which run on...