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...
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...
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...
SSD storage rulers of the world, unite!
The EDSFF organisation has standardised short and long and 3-inch ruler form factors for SSDs, with specs available from the Storage Networking Industry Alliance.
EDSFF stands for Enterprise and Data...
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...
Everspinning IBM U.2 flash drives use MRAM write caching
IBM is using embedded Everspin MRAM to increase the capacity of its proprietary flash drives used in its Storwize and FlashSystem arrays.
Everspin CEO Kevin Conley said during an earnings...
Stung by Trump trade ban, China doubles down on DRAM market
China's Tsinghua Unigroup today said it is entering the DRAM business - and Foxconn looks set to follow suit, according to analysts.
This is against a backdrop of continuing US-China...
Q. Does Optane DIMM access have to be so complicated? A. Yes
Intel’s Optane DIMMs can be accessed in five different ways, each of which have their advantages and disadvantages. We paint a broad brush picture here of the five to...
Micron debuts wicked fast 3D XPoint SSD, goes toe-toe with Intel Optane
Micron today introduced the X100 - the world's fastest SSD, it claims. Oh and it's the company's first 3D XPoint product, which makes the X100 the world's first direct...
Superman in glass: Microsoft shines light on Project Silica’s quartz slab archive
Microsoft has revealed more about its Project Silica glass-based archive at Ignite in Orlando, saying it can store the 1978 Superman movie in a three-inch square slab of quartz.
Microsoft's...
Redis Labs bypasses the NoSQL storage bottleneck
The NoSQL database ocean has some 300 different databases sailing across it. Redis is a super-tanker in the key-value sector, with one million public cloud instances and 8,000 customers,...
DDN Enterprise adds AIOps twist to Tintri roadmap
DDN is organising itself into two divisions: DDN At Scale is its traditional high performance storage business; and DDN Enterprise is home to three recent acquisitions - Tintri, Nexenta...