Is Intel making a profit (at last) from Optane?
Intel may have reached breakeven point or better with Optane storage-class memory products. So says the tech analyst Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, who basing this observation on Intel’s...
NetApp posts strong Q1, plots big re-organisation
NetApp has pulled off a strong first quarter, posting revenues up five per cent y/y to $1.3bn and net income of $77m.
CEO George Kurian said yesterday: “In the face...
Intel Alder Stream Optane SSDs deliver ‘multiple millions of IOPS’
Intel has teased out some more details for the upcoming Barlow Pass PMEM 200 Optane DIMMs and Alder Stream Optane SSDs. These are the second generation versions of the...
Spin Memory spins benefits of Universal Selector
Spin Memory has designed a 'Universal Selector' transistor that improves DRAM array density by 20 to 35 per cent, according to the company. It says the technology increases...
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...
How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...
Spin Memory raises $8.5m for MRAM push to market
Spin Memory, a developer of Magnetic RAM, has raised $8.5m in addition series B funding. This is valued at "the same terms as the last closing in April...
SmartX produces Optane DIMM DAX cached hyperconverged system
SmartX has announced what is probably the fastest hyperconverged infrastructure appliance in the world, if the speeds it has reported are verified.
The Chinese hyperconverged vendor has launched a Halo...
Intel launches gen 2 Optane DIMMs
Intel has announced second generation Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs with the same capacity as gen 1 but faster IO. The company has also launched new SSDs.
Intel said the PMEM...
Your occasional storage digest with Samsung, Dell EMC, Nutanix and more
Tom’s Hardware has published a scoop-ette on an 8TB Samsung QVO 870 SSD using QLC (4bits/cell) NAND and produced in the U.2 format. The entry level starts at...
StorONE touts Optane Flash Array
StorONE, the data storage startup, has crafted a super all-flash array by twinning Optane and QLC Flash SSDs in a 2-tier, 40TB, dual Xeon SP server chassis.
The Optane Flash...
Pure Storage delivers Purity six appeal
Pure Storage today launched the sixth generation of the Purity FlashArray OS. The upgrade includes extended disaster recovery, integrated file support and NVMe-over-Fabrics with RoCE for Cisco UCS and...