IBM thinks analog chips to accelerate machine learning
IBM says machine learning could be accelerated by up to a thousand times by using analog chips based on Phase-Change Memory.
Phase-Change Memory is...
Hybrid vigour: Intel adds Optane to flash mini-SSD
Intel has announced a combined Optane and flash H10 drive designed for memory expansion into thin and light notebooks, All-in-One and Mini PCs.
Dell,...
Intel’s Cascade Lake could break Optane DIMM dam
Intel has started revenue shipments of Cascade Lake Xeon SP processors - these support Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM devices.
Optane is Intel’s 3D...
How does NetApp’s MAX Data use Storage-Class Memory? Let’s find out
In this article we explore NetApp's MAX Data use of server-based Storage Class Memory to slay the data access latency dragon?
But first, a...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one...
Memory prices are on their way down
Trendforce forecasts a five per cent or greater decline in DRAM contract prices in 2018’s fourth quarter following a 1 to 2 per cent rise in the...
Akonia Holographics gets bitten by Apple and moves into paradise
Apple has bought a holographic glassware company, Akonia Holographics, to gain technology it can use in augmented reality products.
Akonia...
Tosh platters spinning a 14TB helium SAS dance
Toshiba has added a high-capacity helium-filled 3.5-inch form factor SAS disk drive alongside its equivalent SATA product.
Like the SATA-using MG07 ACA, the MG07...
Buy Pavilion Data array and lease drive slots
NVMe-ver-Fabrics array supplier Pavilion Data has a new business model; buy the array and controller and lease drive slots.
Customer choose the level of...