My Net Promoter Score is considerably better than yours
From time to time, vendors publish their Net Promotor Score (NPS) as a way to trumpet how great they are - and by extension how much better they are...
Micron’s good Q1fy21 results as DRAM industry cycle starts rebound
Micron has posted first fiscal 2021 quarter’s revenues of $5.77bn, up 12 per cent Y/Y. The US semiconductor maker chalked up net income of $803m for the quarter ended...
In praise of the bezel (but make sure it’s a good one)
Bezels are a neglected aspect of data storage hardware, and I think that's a shame.
Bezels are everywhere in data centres but their design gets little attention, no credit and...
The terrible Tib, GiB and PiB game
The data storage industry uses MiB, GiB, TiB and PiB measures and different MB. GB, TB and PB measures and this confuses the heck out of many people. The...
Nvidia plots invasion of the storage controllers
Nvidia is adding storage controller functions to its BlueField-2 SmartNIC card and is gunning for business from big external storage array vendors such as Dell, Pure and VAST Data.
Update:...
To infinitesimal and beyond! Micron extends DRAM roadmap
Micron has updated its DRAM roadmap from three to four cell shrink stages, enabling more DRAM capacity per wafer and lowering costs per GB.
The US chipmaker intends to shrink...
APU maker claims 100x speedup vs. Xeon for big data similarity search
Similarity search, a key concept in data science, enables researchers to analyse huge volumes of unstructured data that is not accessible by conventional query search engines.
The technique entails...
Western Digital, Microsoft and all that DNA storage jazz
Western Digital, Microsoft, Twist Bioscience and Illumina have set up the DNA Data Storage Alliance to develop a commercial DNA archival storage ecosystem.
They will devise an industry roadmap,...
Message in a space capsule: Art works preserved in DNA break free of...
Art works stored on DNA data storage will be fired into Space in 2022. The pieces by three members of the all-female Beyond Earth collective, are responses to human...
Taiwain’s UMC pleads guilty to Micron IP theft
Taiwan-based UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) has pleaded guilty in a San Francisco court to trade secret theft from Micron and will pay a $60m fine.
Prosecutors dropped charges of economic espionage...
Mainframe downcycle: IBM’s storage revenues slump in Q3
IBM’s storage revenues dipped 20 per cent in Big Blue’s third 2020 quarter, driven down by adverse mainframe cycle dynamics.
The company reported Q3 revenues of $17.6bn, down 2.6 per...
Bits and bytes in bacteria: DNA data storage in living cells
Chinese scientists in Tianjin University have stored and retrieved 445KB of digital data from living E. coli bacteria cells and say E.coli represents a stable DNA storage medium.
Up until...