AWS launches IceLake Nitro SSD instances
AWS has added fast compute instances called I4i using Intel Xeon IceLake servers and 30TB of NVMe Nitro SSD storage.
These Nitro SSDs and the Xeons deliver up to 60...
Storage facing trillion-row database apocalypse
A new era of large-scale analytics and storage is opening up ahead of us. Ocient, Imply, VAST Data, and WEKA are four startups positioned to store and access data...
Storage news ticker – April 27
Arcion has announced a partnership to bring its cloud-native, CDC-based data replication platform to Databricks. Arcion's product can integrate transactional systems with the Databricks Lakehouse in real time, at...
SK hynix celebrates its best first quarter
Korean DRAM and NAND maker SK hynix had a record first 2022 quarter with income boosted by Solidigm SDD earnings and a slower decline in DRAM prices than it...
Infinidat accelerates high-end array
High-end enterprise array supplier Infinidat has added a faster top-end system with boosted hardware and software, increased cyber-resilience, and enhanced AIOps and DevOps capabilities.
Infinidat supplies InfiniBox arrays with DRAM...
Solidigm upgrades datacenter SSDs for speed
Solidigm has upgraded its PCIe 4 datacenter SSDs to faster models using denser 3D NAND chips.
Update: Solidigm performance numbers updated. 29 April 2022.
Intel's storage unit first produced D7-P5500 (1...
Trench 3D NAND: The solid-state future?
Like any solid-state technology, 3D NAND will reach a point when it can't meet demand for increased density, and replacement technology will come along. Semiconductor and nanotechnology research powerhouse...
Storage news ticker – April 26
Ethernet adapter supplier Chelsio Communications has introduced its seventh-generation T7 Unified Wire DPU (SmartNIC). It is built with up to eight Arm Cortex A72 cores for embedded applications’ control...
For sale: Toshiba considering a buyout
Japanese conglomerate Toshiba is actively soliciting proposals from potential investors and sponsors about the future of the company, including taking the business private in order to increase its corporate...
Storage News Ticker – 22 April
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Unstructured NAS and object data migrator and manager Datadobi has signed Climb Channel Solutions to distribute its products to resellers and solution providers in the EMEA region.
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Gartner has released...
WEKA moves file data at 2TB/sec on Oracle’s cloud
WEKA says it has moved file data on Oracle’s cloud at close to 2TB/sec to servers using its scale-out, parallel file system software.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) public cloud...
Pure Storage wants to work with data gravity, not against it
Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo expressed two noteworthy views in an interview with Blocks & Files – that hyperconverged infrastructure doesn’t exist inside hyperscaler datacenters, and that data needs...