Samsung preps third-gen 10nm DDR4 DRAM
Samsung Electronics has developed a third generation of 10-nanometer-class DDR4 memory parts for high performance applications. The Korean chipmaker says this will enable it to ramp up production to...
Micron blames weaker DRAM and NAND Flash demand for Q2 revenue fall
Micron posted Q2 FY2019 revenues of $5.84bn, a whopping fall compared with $7.35bn for the same period last year. This is also down on the $7.91bn for the last...
Dell EMC and Nvidia tout turnkey AI systems through US resellers
Five US channel partners can build ready-to-run AI systems using Dell EMC and Nvidia gear.
The reference architecture (RA) specifies A Dell EMC/Nvidia box with an Isilon F800 all-flash filer...
Formulus Black formulates in-memory speed-up servers
Formulus Black has developed a way to make X86 servers run faster through a data reduction method that effectively enlarges server memory.
Its software runs in a bare metal server...
Micron offers NVMe SSDs for laptops
Micron Technology has introduced a portfolio of SSD drives with NVMe support in the space-saving M.2 form factor, aimed at delivering accelerated read/write performance with lower latency for client...
Flash prices are still plummeting – just a little bit more slowly
IDC has tweaked its NAND flash supply vs demand forecast, estimating that 2019 and 2020 bit volumes will now grow at 39 per cent and 38 per cent year...
Dell blabs mid-range storage box details – but not to us
Earlier this month we asked Dell EMC to discuss the features of its upcoming unified mid-range storage server. The company declined our request, saying it was too soon...
Pure Storage overcomes dedupe blocking with end-to-end encryption in flash array
Pure Storage has enlisted the help of Thales to build an end-to-end (E2) encryption facility with no deduplication blocking for the company's FlashArray//X.
The technology, called Vormetric Transparent Encryption (VTE),...
Dell EMC customers can build their own Converged Infrastructure systems
From today customers can build their own Converged Infrastructure systems by using Dell EMC Ready Stack blueprints. Previously this option was available for channel partners only.
Dell EMC has...
Lightbits unveils NVMe/TCP product. Toshiba adds NVMe/TCP support to Kumoscale
You wait for a bus for ages and then two come along at once. So it is with NVMe/TCP - Toshiba and Lightbits Labs have introduced NVMe/TCP product on...
WD keeps fast flash Optane substitute in the wings
Western Digital is developing lower latency flash drives that are faster and more expensive than ordinary 3D NAND but slower and cheaper than DRAM.
The technology addresses the same market...
Vexata hives off software for partners to build 20 million IOPS arrays
Targeting cloud providers, Vexata has separated its software and hardware, to offering file and block access software on commodity servers.
in October 2017 Vexata introduced a 7 million IOPS...