Yes, Intel, Optane is loss-making – but don’t give up
Storage consultant Chris Evans responded to our Optane-making-a-loss story with a tweet thread, pointing out that, although Optane revenues are fairly low and it is losing money, “Intel is...
Intel Optane losses laid bare in SEC report
Intel’s 10-Q SEC filing for the third 2021 quarter ended September 25 reveals its Optane business lost $473 million in the first nine months of 2020.
The 10-Q contains a...
Ditch the switch: stealth-exiting Rockport Networks says it has a better way
Rockport Networks has exited stealth with a switchless datacentre network product that it claims can carry data traffic faster and with better latency than switched networks, yet is a...
Totenpass stores data on a gold-plated nickel slab
Totenpass, a New York state company run by a contrarian investor, gold trader, jeweller, and bitcoin miner, is beta-testing a system for storing data for 100 years on credit...
Storage news ticker tape … …
Storage news comes in waves and there’s so much of it right now that the production of a weekly digest can’t keep up. Here’s the latest batch of news...
NetApp setting up streaming TV service — but Netflix is in no danger of...
NetApp is setting up its own streaming TV service, starting with digital content from its Insight 2021 virtual event and including a performance by Sting. You remember Sting?
There will...
Samsung SW virtualises CXL-attached memory
Samsung has an open-source Scalable Memory Development Kit (SMDK) which virtualises memory attached to the CXL interconnect.
The Compute eXpress Link is a developing open, industry-backed standard interconnect to enable...
Double-helix data storage developer Catalog gets funding boost
Spurred on by the development of its DNA storage Shannon system, Catalog has taken in $35 million in B-round funding to help devise a storage and computation system based...
Speedata outta stealth with $70m in funding and speedy analytics processing chip
Israeli startup Speedata revealed its existence today by showing off its big data analytics processing chip development and a $55 million funding round from keen VCs showing they think...
Google Cloud gains ease of use and enterprise enhancements
Google Cloud is getting reliability, availability and protection additions to its object, file and container functions that make it more firmly enterprise-class and also easier to use.
There are four...
Cisco UCS servers: nowhere to go, except out of Cisco?
Cisco’s UCS servers were downplayed in yesterday’s Cisco Investor Day presentation to financial analysts, suggesting servers are not a high-priority in Chuck Robbins’s company. So, what next for the...
Fidelma Russo is HPE’s new CTO
Ah, that’s why she left VMware — Fidelma Russo has joined HPE to become its new CTO.
She will lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for HPE and manage...