Storage news ticker – February 26, 2024
Data protector Acronis has released its Cyber Protect 16 product with a new centralized dashboard. It features:
Cyberthreat Protection using AI and ML to proactively secure data, applications, and systems...
When hyperscalers catch a cold, Quantum sneezes
Storage supplier Quantum has encountered significant challenges due to a decrease in device and media sales, and reduced spending by hyperscale customers.
In the first fiscal quarter of 2024 ending...
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,...
Having an efficiency standard like SNIA’s is good. But what about public cloud?
Comment: The Emerald energy initiative from the SNIA holds great promise to better measure storage efficiency and lower carbon emissions, but it's missing a public cloud storage element, and...
Smart IOPS packet-switching controller supercharges SSDs
Startup Smart IOPS has burst out from stealth mode with a line of enterprise-class PCIe 3 and 4 SSDs using its own controller chip that it says treats data blocks...
Tape (and DNA?) needed to meet archive demand by 2030
A report has claimed that there could be a huge gap in archive data storage needs by 2030, with tape and possibly DNA storage the only viable technologies to...
Quantum’s revenues fall as savage supply chain issues ravage costs
Quantum saw a 2.8 per cent decline in revenues in its latest quarter as severe supply chain issues – some suppliers "holding it to ransom" – cost it $62...
Goes faster, does more – ScaleFlux Gen-3 computational storage
ScaleFlux has launched a product suite based on its third generation computational storage hardware with its own system-on-chip (SoC) hardware and up to eight Arm cores.
Computational storage puts compute...
Storage news ticker – November 1
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MSI (Micro-Star International), a gaming company based in Taiwan, has developed a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 add-in interface card which fits on a Intel Z690 chipset-based motherboard. It’s mentioned...
Storage news ticker tape — October 15
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A partnership between Robin.io, Blue Arcus and KloudSpot will combine the technologies needed to enable end-to-end 4G and 5G services and provide a platform to accelerate deployment of 5G...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage,...
Seeing the light: Folio Photonics hopes to crack the optical archive disk market
Folio Photonics aims to develop an archive optical disk with lower-than-tape cost, terabyte-class capacity, multi-decade life and backwards compatibility through technology generations.
It reckons its technology is simpler to productise...
Samsung to bring in-memory processing to standard DIMMs and mobile memory
Samsung plans to expand its processing-in-memory (PIM) technology for accelerating memory-bound workloads like machine learning (ML) beyond high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips and integrate it into mainstream DIMMs and...
DRAM prices rose again in 2Q21, other components may put the brakes on
DRAM suppliers saw revenue increase by 26 per cent in 2Q21, according to market research firm TrendForce, continuing the trend seen during 1Q21. The firm attributes this to buyers...
Huawei looks beyond von Neumann to build 100x denser storage systems
At its April 12 Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, Huawei said it is researching 100x denser storage systems that break free of the constraints of traditional von Neumann architecture.
We...
Micron said to be mulling action against Chinese DRAM maker CXMT – report
According to reports along the Korea supply chain, Micron Technology has told DRAM module manufacturers that DRAM chips being developed by China-based ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) might infringe its...
Optane Persistent Memory vs Optane SSDs – confused? Then read on
Sponsored Intel® Optane™ is a memory technology that has the potential to boost performance in key areas of the data centre, thanks to attributes that combine access speeds close...