Western Digital aims to boost NVMe SSD share with this one cunning virtualization trick
Western Digital today introduced its ME200 memory extension NVMe SSD. This uses a hypervisor to implement a software memory management unit which adds SSD capacity into the host server’s...
Faster, cheaper: Pavilion packs massive monolithic features into mini-NVMe array
Pavilion Data Systems, an NVMe array startup, has added encryption at rest to its RF100 series appliance.
Pavilion's array is a radical architectural change over other all-flash arrays, which are...
Lenovo sets SPC-1 price performance record
Lenovo has set a price performance record of $91.76 per 1,000 SPC-1 IOPS (KIOPS), breaking its previous record of $93.29 by 1.6 per cent.
The SPC-1 benchmark is a synthetic...
Qumulo co-founder Peter Godman quits the company
Peter Godman, a co-founder and CTO of scale-out filer startup Qumulo has quit.
It was confirmed to industry commentator and event organiser Philippe Nicolas by Qumulo CEO Bill Richter.
Richter told...
To INFINIBOX and beyond! Infinidat preps NVMe-oF upgrade for high-end array
Infinidat looks set to add ultra-fast NVMe-over-Fabrics access to its INFINIBOX arrays.
The company has not gone public yet but a source tells me that it demonstrated NVMe-over-Fabrics access to...
Making light of Quantum storage in the ultra-cold atom cloud
Quantum computing inched a little closer with a demonstration of quantum memory using light pulses stored in a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium atoms.
The light pulses, which can scale down...
Stealth startup Pliops unveils plans for storage processor
Pliops has emerged from stealth mode to herald its ambition to develop “the next generation NAND flash Storage Processors”. These are intended for use in disaggregated and hyperconverged storage and database...
Intel bakes Optane DIMM support into Cascade Lake AP
Intel today announced its Cascade Lake Advanced Performance AP Xeon processor with Optane memory support.
The high-end server chip ships at the end of the year and is generally available...
Fujitsu preps NVMe storage line
Fujitsu this week launched the ETERNUS DX89000 high-end array (tune in here for my write-up).
I was struck by the absence of NVMe drive and NVMe-oF fabric interconnect support - apart from a couple...
Burlywood gets flash with NVMe
Burlywood has added NVMe protocol support for its customisable SSD controller software. And it is easy to see why.
As Tod Earhart, founder and CEO of the flash controller start-up, said, in...