Intel bakes Optane DIMM support into Cascade Lake AP
Intel today announced its Cascade Lake Advanced Performance AP Xeon processor with Optane memory support.
The high-end server chip ships at the end of the year and is generally available...
To INFINIBOX and beyond! Infinidat preps NVMe-oF upgrade for high-end array
Infinidat looks set to add ultra-fast NVMe-over-Fabrics access to its INFINIBOX arrays.
The company has not gone public yet but a source tells me that it demonstrated NVMe-over-Fabrics access to...
Infinidat: We own the high-end storage array market
Infinidat claims it has a 60 per cent plus share of multi-petabyte storage array shipments. But we have only its word to go on.
Brian Carmody, Infinidat CTO, argues that...
Faster, cheaper: Pavilion packs massive monolithic features into mini-NVMe array
Pavilion Data Systems, an NVMe array startup, has added encryption at rest to its RF100 series appliance.
Pavilion's array is a radical architectural change over other all-flash arrays, which are...
Western Digital aims to boost NVMe SSD share with this one cunning virtualization trick
Western Digital today introduced its ME200 memory extension NVMe SSD. This uses a hypervisor to implement a software memory management unit which adds SSD capacity into the host server’s...
All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…
Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox.
We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve deep...
Intel Optane-boosted cluster is giant whale in tiny benchmark puddle
Intel has chosen a small and under-populated benchmark performance pond in which to be a large price/performance fish.
The company has achieved a record price/performance on the IOmark VM benchmark...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
Your occasional storage digest featuring AWS, Delphix, Druva and NVM Express
Nibs, niblets, nibbles; brief news items to start the week and give you an appetite for five days of full-tilt action. Let’s see what we have from AWS, Delphix,...
Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks
Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
Escaping the DRAM price trap: Storage Class Memory, what it is and why it...
In this article we explore Storage-Class-Memory (SCM) and explain why it is ready for enterprise IT big time in 2019.
Setting the scene
DRAM is the gold standard for storing...