Your occasional storage digest with ransomware, sustainability, InfiniBand spec update, and lots of shorter...
Ransomware rules the waves in this digest. Prepare to be numerically amazed by the number of ransomware attacks and then read good news about Active Directory recovery from ransomware....
Inspur goes world record SPC-1 benchmarking in the Optanical garden
A clustered 16-controller Inspur storage array system using Optane and NVMe SSDs has set an SPC-1 performance world record, overtaking Huawei.
The Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark tests the performance...
Intel sees CXL as rack-level disaggregator with Optane connectivity
Intel foresees the CXL bus enabling rack-level disaggregation of compute, memory, accelerators storage and network processors, with persistent memory on the CXL bus as well.
This was revealed when Intel...
Pensando goes to Monterey to compete with NVIDIA’s BlueField-2 SmartNIC
Data processing unit/server offload card startup Pensando is offering competition to NVIDIA’s BlueField-2 SmartNIC and preventing it walking all over VMware-using data centres.
Pensando’s Distributed Service Card can run the...
Qumulo follows Silk and VAST Data — exits hardware business
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo is exiting the hardware business, adding Supermicro to its hardware supply partners, and betting its SW will lift its business to success.
After supplying combined hardware...
Your occasional storage digest with Ahana, Egnyte, FalconStor and Netlist, Varada and a tad...
A data lake analytics startup springs on to the stage with a fast funding round following its founding (nice alliteration — Ed). Ransomware attackers love architecture, engineering and construction...
Lenovo unveils new NetApp entry-level all-flash arrays
Lenovo has announced two entry-level all-flash arrays, one with NVMe drives and the other SAS, with a sub-$15,000 starting price.
Update: 6 Aug 20321. Justification for Lenovo first to market...
Nuke checker Los Alamos Labs investigating NGD computational storage
US nuclear weapon stockpile health checker Los Alamos Labs is looking to see if computational storage can speed up simulation modelling runs on its supercomputers.
Los Alamos Labs also works...
Your weekly storage digest with Dell and VAST Data, IBM’s mainframe, Microsoft and more
Some big names in the storage digest this week, with Dell (sort of) formally recognising VAST by producing what’s known as a sales knock-off card, IBM adding better tiering...
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...