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),...
Samsung shipped over half of world’s enterprise SSDs in Q3, say analysts
Intel and Samsung each accounted for about 35 per cent of enterprise SSD capacity shipped in 2019’s third quarter – but now Samsung has a market-dominating 53.6 per cent...