Formulus Black consciously uncouples from Ubuntu
Formulus Black has issued a major release of Forsa that sees the software unbundled from Ubuntu OS and adding support for Optane memory and more CPU sockets...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....
SAP joins Intel Optane love-in
Intel and SAP have signed a multi-year deal to boost SAP S/4HANA customer use of Optane DIMMs, more formally called Optane DC Persistent Memory.
The HANA in-memory database works faster...
Firing up the synapses, the Memristor is now a proper computer
University of Michigan researchers have built a memristor computer capable of identifying Greek letters, reconstructing compressed images, and detecting cancers.
Memristor definition
A memristor is a non-volatile type of resistive memory...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring AWS, hard drive sales, Red Hat and more
Start your week with some tasty storage snacks, including Amazon offering high-performance computing in its cloud, preliminary IDC disk drive ships for the second quarter, and Red Hat support...
FADU flash drives go fast, use less power
FADU Technology's NVMe SSDs go faster and use less power than competing drives thanks to hardware-accelerated controllers and a redesigned flash translation layer.
Based in Korea, FADU Technology is a...
Western Digital parades go-faster, get-bigger IntelliFlash arrays
Western Digital has updated the IntelliFlash storage array range with a lower-priced entry-level NVMe models and a higher-capacity SAS array. The storage giant has also added live dataset migration...
Dell EMC’s Midrange.NEXT: Everything we know so far
Update May 5, 2020. Dell EMC today launched the PowerStore (formerly called Midrange.NEXT) data storage array line. Check out our PowerStore explainer. Our editor thinks this is "most important...
Cisco, NetApp crank up FlexPod with MAX Data
Cisco and NetApp are adding MAX Data to their FlexPod reference design to make applications run faster.
In a white paper published last week Cisco showed MAX Data on FlexPod...
Q. Does Optane DIMM access have to be so complicated? A. Yes
Intel’s Optane DIMMs can be accessed in five different ways, each of which have their advantages and disadvantages. We paint a broad brush picture here of the five to...
What’s the XPoint? SK hynix preps storage-class memory competitor
SK hynix is developing storage-class memory that will compete with 3D XPoint.
The Korean flash fabber signalled its intentions with a paper presented by company researchers last December at the...
Hello from the other side. Mangstor completes EXTEN reboot
Mangstor, a pioneer in NVMe-over-Fabrics array technology which crashed and nearly burned, has escaped the undead. The company, now known as EXTEN Technologies, has launched HyperDynamic, a NVMe-oF target...