DPU startup Fungible lays off staff – sources
DPU developer Fungible has, according to industry sources, laid off a number of employees as it focuses on the mature storage market for its data processing unit technology.
Update: Fungible...
Cirrus Data: Migration for blockheads
Block data migration provides an exact copy of data from a source storage system to a target system. Blocks and Files has written about file and object-level migrations with...
Fungible shifts focus to SAN performance, power
DPU startup Fungible has rowed back from its data center composability ambitions, cancelling products to concentrate on its storage cluster technology using all-flash arrays controlled by its DPUs with...
Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died
NVMe-over Fabrics storage array startup Pavilion Data has crashed.
Update. Co-founder Sundar Kanthadai's epitaph LinkedIn post added. Jan 1, 2023.
The news was released at an all-hands company meeting on October...
Broadcom refreshes connectivity portfolio
Broadcom has updated its range of connectivity products from top-of-rack Ethernet switches down through storage NICs, video offload accelerators, and HBAs to HDD controller SoCs and PreAmps.
The company says...
Web3 bros form Decentralized Storage Alliance
Web3 cheerleaders Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation have set up the Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) with AMD, Seagate, and EY as founding members.
The alliance says it will create...
Storage news ticker – November 16
Taiwan-based Ambedded Technology has released the UniVirStor Flash Mars500 Ceph Storage Appliance: software-defined storage integrating Ceph, Ampere Altra Arm servers, and Ambedded’s Ceph management web UI. This turn-key appliance...
Web3 storage needs to ditch cryptocurrency
Analysis: Decentralized storage – the Web3 concept – will fail unless it deals with seven issues that are stopping its growth.
Web3 storage or dStorage (decentralized storage) is deliberately not...
Fungible sold to Microsoft for $190 million, say multiple sources
DPU startup Fungible has been sold to Microsoft for $190 million despite raising more than $300 million in funding since its incorporation in 2015, according to multiple sources.
The company...
IBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
Analyst house DCIG has produced a list of the biggest market movers and shakers in the world of high-end arrays, yet it doesn't include IBM or HPE branded products,...
Storage news ticker – February 14
SSD controller firmware developer Burlywood has produced a white paper: "Why Your Concerns About Data Center SSDs are Justified." It claims: "The Burlywood consistently delivers higher ongoing performance,...
Oracle predicts: BlueField-3 is coming
Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPU is being added to the network stack in Oracle’s public cloud - OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) - to improve its application performance.
BlueField-3, with 22 billion transistors,...