Burlywood gets flash with NVMe
Burlywood has added NVMe protocol support for its customisable SSD controller software. And it is easy to see why.
As Tod Earhart, founder and CEO of the flash controller start-up, said, in...
Together we can build a better SSD controller – CNEX bags $23m funding
CNEX Labs, a startup that enables big cloud computing vendors to customise SSDs, has picked up $23m in Series D funding.
Typically, SSD controllers are one size fits all -...
Regarding Violin Systems and its race for All-Flash Array glory
Violin Systems has launched its latest VXS 8 all-flash array into what it calls the extreme performance all-flash array market.
Its a hot box with latency down to 50μs when...
Two-horse HCI race with graphical clarity
Dell Technologies and Nutanix, the leaders of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance market, are increasing their dominance, while their competitors in the following pack look to be fighting for...
A quick run through Axellio’s iWARP all-flash Hyper-V HCI box
Axellio has jumped onto the hyperconverged train with the FabrixXpress edge-computing appliance, a software-defined "datacenter in a box" for enterprises and service providers to build on-premises and hybrid integration...
Micron becomes $30 billion company
With nine straight quarters of revenue and profits growth under its belt, Micron has become a $30bn revenue company and is on fire.
Fourth fiscal 2108 quarter revenues were $8.44n,...
Intel bumps up client Optane SSD capacities
Intel has added SSD 905P products to its Optanical garden, with capacities up to 1.5TB.
These client device SSDs more than triple the 480GB SSD 900 Optane SSD’s capacity -...
Pavilion compares RoCE and TCP NVMe over Fabrics performance
Pavilion Data says NVMe over Fabrics using TCP adds less than 100µs latency to RDMA RoCE and is usable at data centre scale.
It is an NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) flash array...
Kaminario supports WD’s composable infrastructure gear
All-flash array supplier Kaminario is supporting Western Digital’s composable infrastructure products, announced last week.
These are:
NVMe-over-Fabrics-connected OpenFlex hardware:
F3000 proprietary flash drives in quasi 3.5-inch form factor.
E3000 3U...
NGD adds Newport computational storage drives
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NGD has announced a Newport platform for computational storage, built on the Catalina-2 product base.
The 16 flash channel ASIC-based product runs 64-bit Linux in a variety of form factors...