Unlucky for some: Chris Mellor’s 13 predictions for storage tech in 2019
Here are my personal predictions for IT this year and how they will affect enterprise storage.
Multi-cloud adoption will (a) encourage enterprises to adopt fewer infrastructure component suppliers and (b)...
Intel’s Cascade Lake could break Optane DIMM dam
Intel has started revenue shipments of Cascade Lake Xeon SP processors - these support Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM devices.
Optane is Intel’s 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology, co-developed with...
Hybrid vigour: Intel adds Optane to flash mini-SSD
Intel has announced a combined Optane and flash H10 drive designed for memory expansion into thin and light notebooks, All-in-One and Mini PCs.
Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, ASUS, and other...
3D XPoint needs to be bigger and cheaper. But how will it get there?
Compared to NAND flash, Intel’s Optane DIMM product is low on capacity and high on price. Increasing its capacity should lower the cost/GB and so help address both issues....
Exploring the memory-flash gap through an Optane lens
Semiconductor consultant Mark Webb thinks XPoint will dominate the memory-flash performance gap and could be a $2.7bn business for Intel and Micron in 2023, with DIMM sales driving most...
Hyperconverged infrastructure heads closer to the edge
Interview: Get hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product development and marketing wrong and your business becomes a turkey. Witness Maxta, which crashed into the buffers this week, as an example of when...
Cascade Lake AP, Optane persistent memory and endurance
Intel's new Cascade Lake AP processor supports Optane memory but the company is not revealing details about endurance. This raises doubts about its real world use.
The AP (Advanced Processor)...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Crossbar, CTERA, Snowflake and Pavilion Data
Some bits and bobs for your perusal. Let's go.
Short items
ReRAM developer Crossbar Inc. is setting up a consortium of AI technology providers that are developing hardware and software products...
VAST Data: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the hard drives
VAST Data wants to direct an extinction event for hard drives.
This is a bold ambition but VAST Data is a remarkable startup, certainly in the scope of its claims...
The Optane Persistent Memory mystery. Can it last the course?
When Intel announced Optane memory technology in July 2015 it claimed endurance was 1,000 times greater than NAND, At the time this was taken to mean NAND endurance limitations were eliminated.
Since...
VAST decouples compute and storage
Separate scaling of compute and data is central to VAST’s performance claims. Here is a top-level explanation of how it is achieved.
In VAST’s scheme there are compute nodes and...
VAST Data’s Universal filesystem
The VAST Data system employs a Universal Storage filesystem. This has a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which is a byte-granular, thin-provisioned, sharded, and has an infinitely-scalable global namespace.
It...