DRAM prices rose again in 2Q21, other components may put the brakes on
DRAM suppliers saw revenue increase by 26 per cent in 2Q21, according to market research firm TrendForce, continuing the trend seen during 1Q21. The firm attributes this to buyers...
Tabletop storage: Georgia Tech looks to SMASH an exabyte into DNA ‘sugar cube’
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is looking into ways to speed up DNA-based cold storage in a $25m Scalable Molecular Archival Software and Hardware (SMASH) project.
DNA is a...
Seeing the light: Folio Photonics hopes to crack the optical archive disk market
Folio Photonics aims to develop an archive optical disk with lower-than-tape cost, terabyte-class capacity, multi-decade life and backwards compatibility through technology generations.
It reckons its technology is simpler to productise...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage,...
Storage news ticker tape — October 15
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A partnership between Robin.io, Blue Arcus and KloudSpot will combine the technologies needed to enable end-to-end 4G and 5G services and provide a platform to accelerate deployment of 5G...
Storage news ticker – November 1
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MSI (Micro-Star International), a gaming company based in Taiwan, has developed a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 add-in interface card which fits on a Intel Z690 chipset-based motherboard. It’s mentioned...
Goes faster, does more – ScaleFlux Gen-3 computational storage
ScaleFlux has launched a product suite based on its third generation computational storage hardware with its own system-on-chip (SoC) hardware and up to eight Arm cores.
Computational storage puts compute...
Quantum’s revenues fall as savage supply chain issues ravage costs
Quantum saw a 2.8 per cent decline in revenues in its latest quarter as severe supply chain issues – some suppliers "holding it to ransom" – cost it $62...
Tape (and DNA?) needed to meet archive demand by 2030
A report has claimed that there could be a huge gap in archive data storage needs by 2030, with tape and possibly DNA storage the only viable technologies to...
Smart IOPS packet-switching controller supercharges SSDs
Startup Smart IOPS has burst out from stealth mode with a line of enterprise-class PCIe 3 and 4 SSDs using its own controller chip that it says treats data blocks...
Having an efficiency standard like SNIA’s is good. But what about public cloud?
Comment: The Emerald energy initiative from the SNIA holds great promise to better measure storage efficiency and lower carbon emissions, but it's missing a public cloud storage element, and...
Storage news ticker – February 14
SSD controller firmware developer Burlywood has produced a white paper: "Why Your Concerns About Data Center SSDs are Justified." It claims: "The Burlywood consistently delivers higher ongoing performance,...