WD and Tosh talk up penta-level cell flash
The Flash Memory Summit lived up to its major flash technology revelation status with news of penta-level cell flash.
Toshiba Memory and Western Digital operate a NAND fabrication...
Nvidia GPUs gain direct access to NVMe storage
Nvidia has crafted a direct link between its GPUs and NVMe-connected storage to speed data transfer and processing.
Until now a GPU was fed with data by the host server’s...
Excelero adds scale-up NVEdge to scale-out NVMESH
Excelero, the NVMe-over-Fabrics flash array software startup, has announced a scale-up NVEdge product to complement its scale-out NVMESH offering.
NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) extends the PCIe/NVMe protocol across network links so a...
Toshiba flash memory is thinner, fatter, faster
Toshiba has come out with three flash news announcements detailing a range of smaller, denser and speedier drives.
96-layer TLC (3bits/cell) NAND RD500 and RC500 gumstick card SSDs,Low-latency XL-FLASH media,XFMEXPRESS...
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Toshiba on the Rocks
Toshiba Memory America has worked on the open source RocksDB to produce its TRocksDB...
Western Digital upgrades NVMe SSDs, recruits composable allies
Western Digital has refreshed its NVMe SSD, composability and storage server products.
The company has added 96-layer 3D NAND data centre drives, almost quadrupling maximum capacity compared to a prior...
Seagate spins scads of cash from slowing disk drive business
Seagate successfully squeezed out cash from its disk drive business in its latest quarter despite long-term revenue decline, and with little or no help from enterprise arrays and SSDs.
Seagate’s...
Here’s a way to optimise your SSDs for different workloads
Flash storage software startup Burlywood has introduced an analysis service for SSDs that profiles their production workload in order to tune operations.
Customer workloads differ by read/write mix, IO sizes,...
Torrid end to torrid year for Western Digital
It's been a hard year for Western Digital but things look like getting better.
Western Digital’s fourth fiscal 2019 quarter saw depressed revenues and a loss compared to a year...
Samsung feels effects of DRAM and NAND memory glut
Samsung revenues are still suffering the effects of the global memory glut but demand uplift signs are apparent.
The company today reported DRAM and NAND sales revenues down 34...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Druva, Microsoft, Veeam and StorONE
Take a jolly dash along the River Storage and visit Druva for a backup history lesson, Microsoft with ideas on formal data sharing, StorONE with Dell server storage...