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...
Liqid adds memory extension tech to composable system
Liqid’s composable systems can now compose up to 16TB of Liqid Memory, enabling larger applications to reduce IO and execute much faster.
A composable system dynamically sets up a virtual...
Enterprise buying slowdown clips HPE storage wings
HPE storage revenues dipped five per cent Y/Y to $844m in its third 2019 quarter results, confirming NetApp’s enterprise buying slowdown signal as Trumponomics around China affect enterprise confidence....
Liqid unleashes the Honey Badger PCIe 4 SSD. It’s fast.Very fast
Liqid has added the LQD4500, its first PCIe 4.0 SSD to its composable systems line-up. This is possibly the world's fastest SSD. Internally, Liqid calls the thing...