Storage Networking

Broadcom launches first Gen 7 Fibre Channel switches

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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...

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...

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....

Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more

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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...

VMware vSphere 7 adds NVMe-oF support to speed storage access

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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...

Nvidia GPU uncorks storage bottleneck with Magnum IO, claims 20x speed up

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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...

Pensando’s AWS Nitro-killer network card does storage too

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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...

Pensando recruits NetApp as acceleration chip customer

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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...

Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs

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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...

Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting to merge

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Hitachi is merging the Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting businesses under the Hitachi Vantara brand, with effect from January 2020. Hitachi Vantara supplies VSP storage array, servers and business analytics...

IBM touts super-fast storage array for z15 mainframe

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IBM launched its latest z15 mainframe today and gave it a new high-end all-flash array to play with. This is the DS8900F and it holds more data with...