Zamarian’s Pavilion gets $45 million funding boost
Pavilion Data, supplying very fast storage hardware based on network switch architecture, has gained renewed funding — $45 million of it — after recently-appointed CEO Dario Zamarian led the...
Two new Optane drives surface in New Hampshire
Intel has two new Optane 3D XPoint drives coming, if tests at a New Hampshire Interoperability Lab are anything to go by.
As reported in Tom’s Hardware, the SSD DC...
Infinidat celebrates a very good 2021
Enterprise storage array supplier Infinidat reported 40 per cent year-on-year bookings growth in 2021.
This included an end-of year boost, with 68 per cent growth in the final quarter, and...
Kioxia announces detail-free speedy QLC phone flash card
Flash fabber Kioxia is sampling a thinner and denser phone flash drive, saying it has faster read and write speeds — but with no details about that, its 3D...
Spin orbits could make better MRAM
Magneto-Resistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) has so far generally failed to replace SRAM because its Spin Transfer Torque (STT-MRAM) implementation is too slow and doesn’t last long enough. A...
Hyve: busy hyperscaler bees buy hardware, not software
Hyve Solutions sells storage hardware to its hyperscaler customers, but not software — because they don’t want it. What, then, do hyperscalers want?
Hyve is a TD Synnex business unit...
Storage news ticker – January 14
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A Backblaze blog claims public cloud service provider data retention minimum periods are like a data deletion tax. “Let’s call retention minimums what they really are: delete penalties. We...
Faster data access coming – PCIe generation 6 spec unveiled
The PCIe SIG has released the official PCIe gen 6 specification, which doubles PCIe 5 speed to 256GB/sec across 16 lanes.
PCIe system designers can use this to double existing...
Micron’s incredibly dense gumstick SSD
Micron has announced the 2400 — a 2TB gumstick-sized PCIe 4 SSD using 176 layer 3D NAND formatted with QLC (4bits/cell), doubling the performance of the prior 2210 96-layer...
Storage News ticker – January 11
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Cobalt Iron, which provides SaaS-based enterprise data protection, has received US Patent 11206306 on its technology for analytics-based cloud brokering of data protection operations. The patented techniques use unique operational...
Intel poaches Micron’s CFO to look after its own finances
Intel has hired a new EVP and CFO: David Zinsner has moved across from Micron, Intel’s former 3D XPoint manufacturing partner, where he held the same positions.
On January 17...
Storage news ticker – January 10
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According to the UK Guardian, EU police agency Europol will have to delete at least 4PB of personal data it is unlawfully storing. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS),...