Pure takes the high road with throughput-optimised FlashArray models
Pure Storage has added Ice Lake Xeon grunt to two new high-end FlashArray models built with TLC (3bits/cell) NAND and the PCIe 4 bus, overall delivering up to 80...
Storage news ticker – November 26
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An Arcserve announcement appears to have had an embargo breakdown or similar event, as SecurityBrief Asia has put out a story — “Arcserve partners with Google Cloud to deliver...
Short and sweet – DDN opens up about rulers, subscriptions and SCM
DDN is looking favourably at supporting ruler-format flash drives and a subscription business model, but doesn’t think storage-class memory is needed quite yet.
These points came across when we got...
Irony central: disaggregated infrastructure supplier Liqid tries aggregating switches
Composable disaggregated systems supplier Liqid is making life easier for customers by integrating a PCIe fabric switch inside its new EX-4400 expansion chassis so customers don’t need to buy...
Impossible becomes possible: MemVerge supporting distributed HPC app checkpointing
Memory virtualizer MemVerge is supporting the checkpointing of distributed, multi-threaded high-performance computing jobs by allying with the DMTCP Project.
Checkpointing is the saving of an application’s state so that it...
Nyriad gets new funding dollars for CPU+GPU storage array
GPU-influenced storage controller startup Nyriad has pulled in $28 million in new funding from existing investors.
Nyriad’s startup idea was to have a combined GPU plus CPU controller to cope...
Happy memories: MemVerge CEO visits Capitola, says hi to VMware
Startup MemVerge’s Big Memory software converges different types of memory into a single pool for applications.
Two much larger companies made recent software announcements concerning memory tiering and virtualisation: VMware’s...
Hitachi Vantara tries to catch up, with VSP arrays, hybrid cloud and containerisation support
Hitachi Vantara has added new top-end storage arrays along with support for hybrid clouds and containerisation, faster object storage and S3 object ingest, plus improved Ops Center management.
Update; VSP...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage,...
Full speed ahead — VMware adds support for NVMe/TCP and Optane persistent memory snapshots
VMware has updated vSphere and vSAN to provide faster storage networking, better Optane support, more cloud-native features, simplified operations and better vSAN resilience and security in an Update 3...
Kioxia announces Optane-class SSD
Kioxia has announced it’s sample shipping an FL6 storage-class memory SSD built with its XL-Flash NAND technology.
Update: Kioxia supplied FL6 performance data. 15 Sep 2021.
This news has been a...
Weebit makes whopping big stride towards ReRAM production
ReRAM developer Weebit Nano has signed a deal with US-based Skywater to bring its technology into volume production.
Weebit’s ReRAM is a silicon-oxide material with electrical resistance set high or...