Storage Networking

Storage news ticker – February 11

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… The CXL (Computer Express Link) Consortium announced the acceptance of Gen-Z Consortium's assets and the Gen-Z specification, and will post the Gen-Z specification as an archive on CXL Consortium's public...

Dell’s packed performant PowerStore update

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Dell has release version 2.1 of its PowerStore software with performance improvements, NVMe/TCP functionality, automated IP SAN setup and management improvements. It's also released XtremIO v6.4 software, and there's...

DPU wars: NVIDIA claims BlueField-2 faster than Fungible – and test details show it

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NVIDIA says its BlueField-2 smartNIC/DPU can link a storage system to a server and run four times as fast as Fungible’s competing hardware and software. But it did not...

Rockport gets co-CEOs and $48 million extra funding

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Datacentre networking upstart Rockport Networks has taken in $48 million in new but non-VC funding, and recruited a second CEO to work alongside existing CEO and co-founder Doug Carwardine. Rockport...

Intel building tri-partner SmartNIC/IPU ecosystem around Oak Springs Canyon

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Intel is partnering a Chinese server vendor, a Chinese network system supplier and an Israeli server NIC supplier to push its Oak Springs Canyon IPU server offload technology into the...

Storage news ticker – November 22

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… Datto management believes it is currently the largest pure-play backup software supplier to the MSP market and growing faster than competitors ConnectWise, Kaseya, and N-able. (Thanks to Jason Ader...

It’s a RoCE road: Kioxia’s Ethernet JBOF SSDs

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Kioxia has launched EM6 SSDs accessed over RoCE NVMe-over-Fabric links and installed in a 24-slot EBOF — an Ethernet Bunch of Flash box — capable of pumping out 20...

Storage News Ticker – November 10

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… Public cloud SaaS data protector Clumio announced availability of Clumio Protect for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cluster (EC2). Its air-gapped SQL backups provide ransomware protection for applications,...

Bare-faced metal-weaving cheek — Dell pachyderm moves into RobinIO’s 5G telco room

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A great big Dell elephant has invaded Robin.io’s telco market for Kubernetes-based orchestration with its Bare Metal Orchestrator. Robin.io has grown its Kubernetes storage facility into a complete 5G system...

Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...

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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,...

Lightbits gets NVMe/TCP certification, enters enterprise software-defined storage ring

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Startup Lightbits has gained NVMe/TCP certification from VMware with vSphere 7 Update 3 for its LightOS software and is now competing head-on with other NVMe/TCP storage suppliers. LightOS is a...

Fungible joins the NVMe/TCP party with a go-faster card

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Data processing unit (DPU) startup Fungible has launched a Storage Initiator card supporting NVMe/TCP and says it makes deploying NVMe/TCP effortless in existing datacentres. The card is the latest member...