Strong demand for server memory lifts SK hynix
The second 2020 quarter marked a revenue and profits uptick for SK hynix, which sold more server memory and lowered costs by increasing process yield.
Revenues of ₩8.6tn ($7.15bn) were...
Nvidia’s GPUDirect Storage vanquishes AI bounce buffers
The datasets used in big data analytics and AI model training can be hundreds of terabytes, involving millions of files and file accesses. Conventional X86 processors are poorly suited...
This week in storage, featuring Nexsan and GitHub’s Arctic rolls
This week's data storage news roundup covers some new Nexsan arrays, and GitHub adventures in an Arctic coal mine.
Nexsan’s gen 3 Unity arrays
StorCentric’s Nexsan business unit has launched...
Hitachi Vantara joins WekaIO fast filer OEM fan club
Hitachi Vantara has signed up with WekaIO to OEM the startup's distributed file system and management software.
Update: Two HCP tables and HCP upgrade summary chart added detailing main offerings...
Tintri delivers database-aware storage
Tintri has released an update to its VM-aware storage platform that delivers the same level of management granularity for SQL databases. Benefits include making it easier to clone databases...
Kioxia’s wafer-scale SSD. What about the packing density?
Kioxia has floated wafer scale SSDs as a much cheaper manufacturing method. As well as costing less than today's data centre class SSDs, Kioxia says wafer-scale SSDs will deliver...
This week in storage: wafer-level SSDs and Kaminario takes Silk
Kioxia floats concept of 'wafer-level SSDs'
Kioxia, formerly Toshiba Memory, has talked about plans for a new way of delivering flash storage it calls “wafer-level SSD”. The concept is to...
IBM details storage portfolio for AI infrastructure
IBM has launched the Elastic Storage System (ESS) 5000 and updated Cloud Object Storage (COS) and Spectrum Discover as part of a new AI storage portfolio.
The company laid...
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...
Slowing growth in NAND shipments follows Covid-19 impact on smartphones
Falling sales of smartphones in the first months of the pandemic has in turn slowed NAND flash shipment growth. Ssmartphones account for 35-40 per cent of NAND flash...
Pure pushes past IBM for top three place in all-flash array market
Pure Storage has overtaken IBM for the third slot in Gartner's revenue league table for the first quarter. Dell EMC and NetApp maintain first and second places and IBM...
Pure Storage ObjectEngine backup is toast
Pure Storage has canned its ObjectEngine backup.
We learnt of this via the cancellation of an archived joint Pure and AWS webinar about ObjectEngine, originally run on May 29,...