IBM quarterly storage HW revenues continue declining
IBM's quarterly storage hardware revenues have continued their long term decline. In the first 2021 quarter earnings report the company disclosed that “Power and Storage Systems declined,” with Power...
Dell PowerStore gets more with hot entry-level box
Dell Technologies has announced a PowerStore 500 entry-level system and updated PowerStore software with performance enhancements.
Jeff Boudreau, GM of Dell Technologies infrastructure solutions group, proclaimed today: “PowerStore is the...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...
Amazon brings more compute to RedShift nodes with AQUA
Amazon Web Services is bringing compute closer to its RedShift cloud data warehouse storage to accelerate query processing by 10x.
The cloud giant has created a hardware-accelerated caching/CPU...
Samsung switches up with the lightning-fast PCie 4.0 PM9A1 client SSD
Samsung has launched the PM9A1, a super-fast PCIe 4 client SSD with 2TB capacity, that matches Western Digital’s Black SN850 at 1 million random read IOPS and 7GB/sec sequential...
DDN speeds up AI storage system in a flash
DDN has upgraded its A³I artificial intelligence -dedicated storage system, using flash to speed data access, as well as improving system monitoring tools.
The systems now support all Nvidia...
HPE adds IBM Spectrum Scale to HPC storage line-up
HPE is to sell and support IBM’s venerable Spectrum Scale parallel file system for high performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads running on its ProLiant and Apollo servers,.
The company...
Netlist bags $40m from SK hynix in patent cross-licensing deal
US SSD and memory module supplier Netlist has prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit against SK hynix, winning a $40m settlement, a cross-licensing deal and a supply arrangement.
The dispute...
VAST Data exits hardware business, pivots to software subscriptions
VAST Data, the high performance storage startup, is to stop selling its own hardware. It will concentrate instead on selling software on a subscription basis, and will certify...
Western Digital and Micron weigh up Kioxia bids
Micron and Western Digital are mulling rival bids over Kioxia, which would value their Japanese competitor at $30bn.
The Wall Street Journal which broke this news, describes Kioxia as a...
Thanks for the memory as Micron revenues get big DRAM bump
Micron delivered a 28 per cent revenue jump in its second fiscal 2021 quarter and 7.5 per cent increase in net income as it benefited from DRAM price...
Startup TenaFe dumps DRAM for PCIe 4 SSD controller
Two former Micron execs have set up their second SSD controller company. CEO Mike and Lee Chief Scientist Cody (Yingquan) Wu founded Tidal Systems, a developer of NVMe...