Three in a row. Liqid composes DoD supercomputer contract
Liqid, the composable infrastructure vendor, has won a $20.6m deal with the US Army Corps of Engineers - bagging its third supercomputer contract in a month.
In August, Liqid scooped...
Optane in the membrane: Cloudian’s HyperStore flashes its SSD, Intel memory credentials
Cloudian has added SSD support and Optane-readiness to its HyperStore object storage product, aiming it at performance-intensive workloads such as analytics and ultra-rapid data restore.
The California storage firm claimed...
Seven attempts to speed processing with faster storage
Storage array enhancements used to be simple; a faster drive led to faster arrays. But memory-like protocols and drives have muddied the water, and hardware-enhanced drive and array controllers...
Arm speeds up compute-on-storage with 64-bit Cortex-R
Arm has released the 64-bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R82 processor, designed specifically for compute-on-storage drives.
Update; GPU supplier Nvidia buys Arm. 14 September 2020.
Such drives run stored data task-specific apps, to offload...
Broadcom launches first Gen 7 Fibre Channel switches
Broadcom’s first seventh generation 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel switching gear has hit the streets.
Fibre Channel (FC) is a high speed networking technology that links servers and SANs. The latest...
This week in storage, featuring Liqid, Snowflake Computing, Ceph and a sausage factory and...
This roundup discusses the seemingly outlandish Ceph and a sausage factory, as well as comparability startup Liqid getting a brace of supercomputer contracts and Panasas giving Spectrum Scale the...
Cohesity speeds up flash performance, hangs out with more hardware vendors
Cohesity has accelerated its software with 'I/O Boost', a flash technology that, it says, improves backup and access performance by two-to-eight times compared with disk drives.
Matt Waxman, VP...
Pure aims to kill hybrid storage with FlashArray//C
Pure Storage thinks the second generation of the FlashArray//C, launched today, is a hybrid flash-disk storage killer.
Updated 26 August 2020 with Matt Kixmoeller comment
The FlashArray//C is intended for tier...
This week in storage with Lenovo, NetApp, and more
This week sees Lenovo and NetApp bundles, edge-focused TrueNAS boxes,, and faster-than-ever OpenEBS storage from MayaData. We’ll start with Lenovo and NetApp getting in a bundle.
Lenovo and NetApp expand...
SK hynix touts its first NVMe consumer SSD: Good spec, good price
SK hynix has entered the consumer NVMe SSD market with a gumstick format Gold P31 drive intended for designers, content creators and PC gamers.
The P31 looks to be a...
Your occasional storage digest with WekaIO, Scality and more
This week's storage news roundup features Weka going to Mars, Scality going to jail, and host of supporting stories.
WekaIO goes to Mars
NASA is using WekaIO to feed file...
Intel regains IO500 HPC bragging rights from WekaIO
Intel has leapfrogged WekaIO to claim the IO500 fastest HPC file system. WekaIO supplanted Intel to take top place in the previous IO500 league table, which was published in...