Nvidia thoughts on composability – tail latency limits CXL
The world of composable systems is divided between PCIe/CXL-supporting suppliers, such as Liqid, and networking suppliers such as Fungible. And then there is Nvidia, which has depended upon its...
Storage news ticker – July 7
GRAID has incrementally improved its NVMe RAID Card’s software, adding data corruption and correction checks. v1.2.2 of its SupremeRAID storage product enhances its RAID 6 erasure coding (EC) N+2...
Ocient discusses hyperscale data analysis problem
Ocient reckons it has solved a niche but hyperscale data analysis problem.
Blocks & Files met Ocient founder Chris Gladwin. His company has built a massively scalable parallel-access relational database...
Lightbits Labs inhales $42 million in funding
Lightbits Labs, which builds software-powered NVMe/TCP-accessed storage servers, has pulled in $42 million in new funding, taking its total funding to $105.3 million.
Update: Funding history revised; 30 June 2022.
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Jupiter supercomputer’s storage innards
Jupiter, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, looks like it could be using NVMe SSDs, disk, IBM's Spectrum Scale parallel file system, TSM backup, and LTO tape for its storage infrastructure.
The...
Storage news ticker – June 15
Backup provider Backblaze is partnering with US public sector supplier Carahsoft Technology Corp to sell its cloud storage to US state and local government, federal, healthcare, and higher education...
Storage news ticker – June 13
Data cyber security and backup supplier Acronis has launched a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) pack for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud available in an Early Access Program. Acronis says it...
DiRAC’s Liqid pours GPUs into servers for cosmological research simulation runs
Durham University’s DiRAC supercomputer is getting composable GPU resources to model the evolution of the universe, courtesy of Liqid and its Matrix composability software.
The UK’s Durham University DiRAC (Distributed...
Storage news ticker – 10 June
Backblaze says it is the first independent cloud provider to offer a cloud replication service which helps businesses apply the principles of 3-2-1 data protection within a cloud-first or...
Intel planning big Lightbits NVMe/TCP storage push
A IT Press Tour briefing by Lightbits Labs in San Jose told us good things about Lightbits's technology but a great unseen presence started becoming more visible throughout the...
Pure extends FlashBlade with more capacity and faster compute
Pure Storage has launched an updated FlashBlade unified file and object array, the //S, with Purity//FB v4.0 software and double the density, performance and power-efficiency of the current FlashBlade.
FlashBlade//S,...
Pure Storage reworks Evergreen subscription service
Pure Storage has reworked its Evergreen subscription to provide a more coherent set of services and optimizations that can extend across a customer's entire fleet of Pure arrays.
There are...