HPE adds faster/bigger Plus-size model to Apollo storage server line
HPE has added a Plus variant to its Apollo 4200 Gen10 server, adding updated Xeon CPUs, more memory and more storage capacity to make it more attractive to customers...
GPUDirect Storage hitting the streets to VAST acclaim
Nvidia’s CPU-bypass GPUDirect Storage (GDS) technology is now available, and has been added to its HGX AI supercomputer. There are three vendors already in production and five more ramping...
Your occasional storage digest with MariaDB, HPE, WD, IBM and more
This week we have an improved MariaDB database, HPE’s Alletra array getting faster access, WD announcing a much faster 5G phone-embedded flash drive and IBM producing an all-IBM tape...
Flash KumoScale hops onto OpenStack Wallaby and adds IP routing for network resiliency
Kioxia has added up-to-date OpenStack access control and open source integrations to its NVMe-oF KumoScale flash array software and increased its network access availability and bandwidth with a preview...
Your occasional storage digest with Storj and Tesla, Komprise, OVH Cloud and more
A cloudy theme this week, with Tesla camera footage stored in a cloud and cloud service provider OVH offering a Kubernetes service. We also have Komprise enabling its management...
Kalray launches NVMe storage access acceleration SmartNIC
French supplier Kalray has launched a K200-LP acceleration card for accessing NVMe storage.
The card uses fabless semi-conductor company Kalray’s in-house-developed VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) Massively Parallel Processing Array...
Disky business: DRAM array cacher Infinidat adds faster solid state array to extend InfiniBox...
High-end array supplier Infinidat has announced its first all flash array as a higher-performance extension to its existing disk-based InfiniBox line, using the same DRAM-cached architecture and software.
Infinidat has...
Your occasional storage digest with DNA storage, a new IDC Tracker and more
New things are the theme of this week’s roundup, with DNA storage prospects explained in a white paper, and IDC setting up a software-defined infrastructure tracking report. These are...
Quantum gives ActiveScale a sizable upgrade
Quantum has taken the ActiveScale object storage business it bought from Western Digital and given it a significant upgrade with new hardware and software.
Via the acquisition it obtained entry-level...
StorONE’s SSD supply crisis survival guide
StorONE has announced there is a current and growing SSD supply crisis, caused by the pandemic and cryptocurrency mining and farming. It has a user survival strategy: use its...
Weka beats DDN, Supermicro Optane and Dell EMC PowerScale in stacks of STAC benchmarks
STAC benchmarks show WekaIO filesystem software running on Amazon cloud EC2 instances can deliver record-breaking tick analytics performance for the financial services industry, beating on-premises DDN EXAScaler, Dell EMC...
Your occasional storage digest with TrendForce, NVM Express and Datto
Enterprise SSD prices are rising, the NVMe spec extends to SSD zones, key-value stores and disk drives, and Datto has pushed out software-only data protection security to its cloud...