Pliops XDP hits the streets to rescue X86 servers from data-handling overload
Israel-based startup Pliops has unveiled its Extreme Data Processor (XDP) storage processor product to offload server X86 CPUs and accelerate data-intensive apps with better-designed processor resources.
Pliops — pronounced Ply-Ops...
All-you-can-eat storage buffet with Napatech, Scale/IBM, Inspur, Viking/Kalray and platefuls of other good stuff
This week’s edition of our all-you-can-eat storage buffet has main plates featuring flavoursome Napatech SmartNICs, Scale Computing getting edgy in bed with IBM, Inspur knocking off another benchmark win...
GRAID uses SmartNIC approach to RAID Card for NVMe SSDs
Startup GRAID has designed a RAID card using a massively multi-core processor designed for AI, and says it can keep up with NVMe SSDs without sucking up host server...
Your occasional storage digest with AWS HealthLake, Delphix, Infrascale, XenData and much more
This week we have AWS doing a neat health sector vertical market data lake offering with partners, Delphix bragging about its growth and diversity hiring credentials, and Infrascale offering...
The plot thickens — compute-in-storage maker NGD jumps into Chia farming niche
Compute-in-storage developer NGD Systems says Chia farmers can use its drive-level CPU and DRAM to compute plots faster than with a host CPU on its own.
Chiacoin is a Bitcoin-like...
Your occasional storage digest with Backblaze, Infinidat, Robin.io and Windocks
This week’s digest features new cloud backup software and a Chia note from Backblaze, Infinidat suggesting it’s an AIOps supplier, and Robin.io notching up another server deal for its...
Replicate this! VAST Data has failover and failback
VAST Data has added replication functionality to its VAST OS software in release 3.6.
The all-QLC-flash array software vendor, with Optane metadata acceleration, can now replicate VAST array cluster data...
Out with the old, in with the new — Pavilion Data hires a CEO
Pavilion Data has dropped its product guy, Gurpreet Singh, after four years as Chief Exec, and exchanged him for experienced business CEO Dario Zamarian.
This abrupt change happened on July...
DDN updates EXAScaler software with new management framework and Hot Nodes
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has released an updated version of its EXAScaler parallel file system software with configuration and management APIs to automate its operation, support for Nvidia’s GPU-Direct Storage,...
Fungible claims fastest storage node on the market, at 6.55 million IOPS
Dutch high-performance computing (HPC) researchers have reported a Fungible storage node delivering 6.55 million random read IOPS to a single server. Fungible claims this is the world’s highest performance...
Micron earnings: thanks for the multi-million dollar memories
Micron had a great third fiscal 2021 quarter, with large increases in both revenues and profits driven mostly by DRAM — although the Storage business unit let the side...
We love ya! Weka hugs Nvidia’s HGX to its fast filesystem
Weka’s fast filesystem — WekaIO — has added support for Nvidia’s latest offering, the HGX AI-focussed GPU server, shipping file data to its AI-processing GPUs.
This so-called AI supercomputer...