StorPool, an Intel customer, runs slide rule over Optane DIMMs
Optane DIMM performance looks good for large databases and virtual machines (VMs) in memory mode and could be useful for metadata storage and write-back caching in app-direct mode. But...
Our SSD storage is for life
Optiarc, an optical archiving disk maker, has released three SSD products that ensure “storage for life a user will be able to maintain their content indefinitely.” However, there...
Western Digital wants to be the Everything Storage Company. How does its ambition stack...
Western Digital is undertaking a huge project - to own and integrate the entire stack from silicon, glass and sand to arrays and composable systems software.
Originally a disk...
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 based on a chalcogenide glass material...
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, Lenovo, HP, Acer, ASUS, and other...
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 XPoint non-volatile memory technology, co-developed with...
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 brief recap: MAX Data is server-side...
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 mobile storage...
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 side and...
Memory prices are on their way down
Trendforce forecasts a five per cent or greater fall in DRAM contract prices in 2018’s fourth quarter, following 1 to 2 per cent rise in the third quarter. 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 is a 6-year old company with roots that extend back...
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 SCA has with its 12 and...