Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs
Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies’s vice chairman and overall product and operations boss, has stepped away from day-to-day control of the server-to-storage-to-networking-to-protection ISG Group. He passes the baton to EMC...
Pensando recruits NetApp as acceleration chip customer
Accelerator card startup Pensando Systems emerged from stealth this month, announcing it had raised $278m in three rounds since its inception in 2017. What has gotten investors so fired...
Pensando’s AWS Nitro-killer network card does storage too
Q&A How does Pensando Systems work its server speed-enhancing magic?
The venture-back startup came out of stealth in late October and NetApp was revealed as a customer earlier this week.
At...
Nvidia GPU uncorks storage bottleneck with Magnum IO, claims 20x speed up
The ceaseless quest for avoiding storage IO delays has alighted on GPUs and Nvidia has devised a way to bypass the host server CPU and memory and accelerate data...
VMware vSphere 7 adds NVMe-oF support to speed storage access
Earlier this week we covered the main details of VMware's blockbuster vSphere 7 launch. In this article we zoom in on VMware’s vSphere 7 support for NVMe over Fabrics...
Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more
Data growth provides the fuel for our main items in this week's data storage news digest. Let's get cracking.
Backblaze cloud storage reaches exabyte milestone
Backblaze, a cloud storage provider, is...
Rival post-PCIe bus standards groups sign peace treaty
Two rival groups developing CPU-peripheral bus standards have agreed to work together.
The CXL and Gen-Z groups announced yesterday a memorandum of understanding, which opens the door for future collaboration....
HPE’s Tom Black: Why storage and networking are different dialects of the same...
We had a quick interview with Tom Black, HPE Storage's inaugural boss, earlier this month. Black took on the job in January and is a 20-year networking veteran. He...
Nutanix hooks Calico into Karbon 2.1 Kubernetes management tool
Nutanix's goal for Karbon, a management app for Kubernetes, is to provide an integrated all-in-one framework to build and run containerised apps. That way, customers can go cloud-native with...
Broadcom launches first Gen 7 Fibre Channel switches
Broadcom’s first seventh generation 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel switching gear has hit the streets.
Fibre Channel (FC) is a high speed networking technology that links servers and SANs. The latest...
VMware wants to play nice with Nvidia DPUs
VMware and Nvidia announced yesterday they are working to make VMware software work better with Nvidia chips. They say the joint initiative, dubbed Project Monterey, will “introduce a new...
Life after Nvidia: Mellanox founder and CEO quits
Eyal Waldman, Mellanox CEO, is leaving the networking equipment company he founded, six months after its $7bn acquisition by Nvidia.
Waldman, who pocketed an estimated $270m, told Globes: "When we...