Intel thinks own-brand NAND is not absolutely fab
Intel is exploring its options on self-manufacturing NAND flash memory and may buy in from third party suppliers.
The revelation came from CFO George Davis, speaking last week at a...
Pure’s FlashArray//X R3 is an Optane cacher
The third generation Pure Storage all-NVMe FlashArray//X with optional Optane caching is now generally available.
FlashArray//X R3 is a go-faster piece of kit and features;
Xeon SP (Cascade Lake) processor support,Support...
So long, farewell, Storwize. IBM melds storage array line under FlashSystems brand
IBM has launched faster FlashSystem arrays, in a move that also sees it simplify its block access storage array line-up.
The company now goes to the non-mainframe market with a...
Intel flags up delay for Optane 3D, gen 2 delivery slowdown
Intel’s latest annual report signposted a delay in bringing second generation Optane SSD and DIMM products to full availability.
The report states: "With our Intel 3D NAND technology and Intel...
Universal memory candidate technology
University of Lancaster researchers have devised a universal memory candidate technology.
By using a structure based on members of the III-V chemical compounds family, it's possible to build a memory...
Intel adds PCIe 4.0 support to Optane SSDs
Intel is adding PCIe 4.0 support to its gen 2 Optane SSDs.
This was revealed in a tweet by Frank Ober, a data centre solutions architect at Intel, and first...
WD: Storage class memory will not replace DRAM or NAND
In our recent interview with Siva Sivaram, the Western Digital's president for technology and strategy discussed upcoming solid state storage technology. Let's begin with his thoughts on storage-class memory.
Storage-class...
Redis Labs bypasses the NoSQL storage bottleneck
The NoSQL database ocean has some 300 different databases sailing across it. Redis is a super-tanker in the key-value sector, with one million public cloud instances and 8,000 customers,...
Liqid composes Western Digital OpenFlex storage within and across racks
At the SC19 event Composable systems startup Liqid announced it can compose servers with Western Digital’s OpenFlex storage both within and across racks in a data centre, thanks to...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring HPE, Swiftstack and more
HPE has updated its two composable systems offerings while Swiftstack has upped the scale and performance of its object storage software. There's host of other announcements to check out...
NetApp revenue dip means it has to raise its game
NetApp's annual Insight opens in at Las Vegas today, and sees the company having had two quarters of declining revenues and facing a third. The business faces the ...
Micron debuts wicked fast 3D XPoint SSD, goes toe-toe with Intel Optane
Micron today introduced the X100 - the world's fastest SSD, it claims. Oh and it's the company's first 3D XPoint product, which makes the X100 the world's first direct...