Go go GigaIO as it composes a funding raise
Data centre network fabric startup GigaIO has raised $14.7 million in a B-round, following its $4.5 million A-round in 2018. That came six years after its 2012 founding and...
Pensando pulls in more DPU development cash
Data Processing Unit chip startup Pensando has had another $35 million invested in it, completing a C-round fund raise which had previously attracted $145 million in October 2019.
Pensando has...
Fungible can solve the public cloud Hotel California problem
DPU startup Fungible recently briefed Blocks & Files on its views regarding Intel's Infrastructure Processing Unit. Co-founder and CEO Pradeep Sindhu said it was inadequate as a data centre...
Want to make your storage sing? Then make sure it’s built for composability
SPONSORED If buoyant market figures are anything to go by, most enterprises already have a good grasp of the benefits of adopting hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). By tightly integrating compute,...
Intel: I’m already the biggest DPU shipper
Big beast Intel has come crashing out of the semiconductor jungle into the Data Processing Unit gang’s watering hole, saying it’s the biggest DPU shipper of all and it...
Roll-your-own server crew at Liqid add vCentre composable server plug-in
VMware vCentre users can compose server systems using Liqid’s Matrix fabric software via a plug-in.
Liqid uses its X86-based Matrix software software, controlling a PCIe switch and fabric, to dynamically...
OK, SANshine, how do you position Nebulon against external arrays, HCI, SmartNIC and DPU...
Analysis: Would-be SAN array and HCI rival Nebulon’s SPU (Storage Processing Unit) is a fresh way of delivering shared storage and other services by using what looks like hyper-converged...
GigaIO adds composability pods and clusters update for resource-chomping HPC and AI folks
Composability supplier GigaIO has updated its FabreX software to group its rackscale pooled accelerator resource units into pods of six cells and clusters of six pods, making up a...
Your occasional storage digest with Intel Ice Lake, composable systems and HCI
The big enterprise hardware event this week centres on Intel's Ice Lake Xeon processors, with HPE saying its Synergy composable system will support Ice Lake compute nodes. We envisage...
The limits of enterprise IT composability
Analysis: Fungible's composable data centre announcement last week excited much discussion about the limits of the enterprise composability market. We look at views from storage architect Chris Evans, IDC,...
Fungible Inc. aims to re-invent the programmable data centre
Fungible Inc. today launched Fungible Data Center, a turnkey composable system featuring its own software, networking technology, and DPU chips.
Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder of Fungible said in...
Your occasional storage digest with Liqid, Panzura and HPE GreenLake
Slurm sounds like a type of slurping or squirming but gives Liqid better access to the high-performance computing market. Panzura is adding ransomware detection to its cloud file system...