Flipping cells: 3D monolithic DRAM density increase strategy
DRAM is expensive, and servers have limited capacity through their socket architectures, but we need more DRAM as processors get more deeply involved in working on larger and larger...
Fidelma Russo leaves VMware GM role
Fidelma Russo, VMware’s SVP and General Manager of its Cloud Services Business Unit, abruptly resigned from the company on 5th September, with some indications that she had also been...
NAND industry consolidation leading to a trifecta
The attempt by Western Digital to merge with/take over its flash fab joint venture partner Kioxia has led many storage buffs to think about NAND industry consolidation, down to...
WD improves disk capacity in a flash; MAMR delayed
Western Digital has added a metadata-storing thumbnail-sized flash drive to the controller of a disk drive and increased its overall capacity and speed. It says a 50TB drive using...
Rambus HBM subsystem more than doubles HBM2E speed
Extended high-bandwidth memory (HBM2E) is barely here, yet Rambus already has a third-generation HBM subsystem ready for use, and it goes more than twice as fast.
Server and GPU memory...
NVIDIA/VMware/Dell Project Monterey server offload early access program
NVIDIA, Dell and VMware have started a Project Monterey Early Access Program so customers can explore whether servers offloaded with NVIDIA’s BlueField-2 SmartNIC can run applications faster. If this...
Tsinghua Unigroup needs a saviour — a rich and generous one
The bankrupt Tsinghua Unigroup is looking for a strategic investor or group to pump in ¥500 million ($77M) to its bank account as the first step in clearing its...
NetApp jumps on Windows 365/CloudPC bandwagon hoping for mucho-MSP moolah
NetApp has added Microsoft’s new Windows 365/CloudPC offering to its Spot cloud broking business and fashioned two offerings for MSPs, hoping for a share of business end-user subscription revenues.
Windows...
DPU startup Fungible hires CEO to vault revenues higher and higher
After six years, co-founder and Exec Chairman of DPU startup Fungible has replaced himself as CEO with Eric Hayes – a man who grew Broadcom’s switching silicon business from...
After GigaOm’s Radar comes Sonar, as it dives deeper into emerging tech
GigaOm has developed a diagrammatic lens and research document, through which to look at emerging startup technologies with few suppliers but much promise: the Sonar diagram in Emerging Technology...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Red Hat and Backblaze — and Kaseya’s $70M...
We start with exec changes at IBM, followed by a new version of OpenShift, and Backblaze going to Dell.
In the shorter news items we see both Panzura and Qumulo...
IBM and Nvidia developing ESS 3200-based DGX SuperPOD
IBM and Nvidia are building a DGX SuperPOD system based on its IBM’s ESS 3200 storage server and Spectrum Scale. It has an updated reference architecture for DGX PODs...