A potted history of all-flash arrays
Fourteen years ago Violin Memory began life as an all-flash array vendor, aiming to kick slower-performing disk drive arrays up their laggardly disk latency butt. Since then 18 startups...
Vexata dredges new channels as storm clouds gather
Vexata, the extreme high-performance storage array startup, has laid off several staff and imposed pay cuts, according to industry sources. The company declined to comment on pay or confirm...
SoftIron builds out storage line for Ceph-alitics
SoftIron has announced three Ceph-based storage systems - an upgraded performance storage node, an enhanced management system and a front-end access or storage router box
Ceph is free source storage...
Zoned SSDs live fast, die old, Western Digital claims
Western Digital is developing zoned SSDs that can be managed by host systems to speed data access and prolong the life of the drives.
This could make short-life...
Fujitsu Eternus array shatters SPC-1 storage benchmark
Fujitsu has set the new top score for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark, scoring 10,001,522 IOPS with its ETERNUS DX8900 S4 array.
In SPC-1 benchmark terms this is the...
Falling NAND prices to drive NVMe SSD uptake, say industry watchers
The great NAND flash price slump will accelerate the uptake of SSD storage, industry sources have predicted, with PCIe/NVMe SSDs possibly accounting for half of the market by the...
UC San Diego: Optane is great but…different
Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM can make key storage applications 17 times faster but systems builders must navigate ‘complex performance characteristics’ to get the best out of the...
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...