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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring HPE, Swiftstack and more
HPE has updated its two composable systems offerings while Swiftstack has upped the scale and performance of its object storage software. There's host of other announcements to check out...
Porsche gains Synergy in drive to HPE GreenLake
Spot the odd ones out: Carrera, Cayman, Boxster, Macan, Cayenne, Synergy, GreenLake. Easy; Synergy and GreenLake aren’t Porsche cars - but they are being used by Porsche’s in-house IT...
Pensando bags big bucks to take on AWS Nitro
MPLS, the renowned Cisco spin-in quartet, are back in town with their latest startup, an edge computing company called Pensando Systems that seeks to out-do Amazon Nitro. Only this...