Qumulo plans all-in-one available-anywhere file services
Qumulo wants to make its file services available anywhere in a customer's IT environment - that means on-premises, public cloud and from any business location, via clusters...
VAST Data rolling out biggest ever software release
Single QLC flash tier storage upstart VAST Data is making a song and dance about its biggest software release ever, saying it will aid VAST's larger data...
Intel leak appears to show last Optane PMem
Details of the "last Optane Persistent Memory" have been shared by Twitter poster HXL who revealed what they claim (and what looks very much like) an Intel...
Storage news ticker – November 18
Infrastructure connectivity outfit ATTO Technology has joined Open-E, and Western Digital in introducing a high-capacity, high-availability HDD storage system based on Open-E JovianDSS Data Storage Software, an...
Storage news ticker – November 14
ATTO Technology and Nyriad have teamed to integrate ATTO FastFrame 3 SmartNICs and ThunderLink Thunderbolt adapters with the Nyriad UltraIO storage system, powered by a GPU-CPU combination. The...
Storage News ticker – 11 November
AMD has released its Genoa 4th generation EPYC 9004 series CPUs with 96 cores and support for PCIe 5.0. and CXL 1.1 memory expansion....
Storage news ticker – October 24
Astera Labs demonstrated how datacenter operators can improve performance and reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with its CXL, PCIe 5.0, and Ethernet Connectivity solutions at the...
Gartner releases 2022 storage hype cycle
Gartner’s latest storage and data protection hype cycle is an amazingly long report and, this being Gartner, the basic idea is treated to exhaustive analysis by a...
Interview: Micron likes 3D DRAM and 3D NAND – and loves CXL
How does Micron view the world of CXL (Computer eXpress Link)? Blocks & Files had the opportunity to talk about this with Ryan Baxter, a Micron senior...
Kioxia updates XL-FLASH storage-class memory with MLC tier
Kioxia exhibited second-generation storage class memory flash at the FMS 2022 event in Santa Clara, with a lower cost per GB than gen 1.
Intel at 3D exit point: Alas poor Optane, I knew it well
After dismal client PC and unexpectedly low server CPU sales Intel boss Pat Gelsinger has fulfilled his infamous “I never want to be in memory” statement and...
Nvidia thoughts on composability – tail latency limits CXL
The world of composable systems is divided between PCIe/CXL-supporting suppliers, such as Liqid, and networking suppliers such as Fungible. And then there is Nvidia, which has depended...
CXL memory pools: Just how big can they be?
CXL 2.0 will enable memory pooling, which sounds great, but a bit vague. How big can the memory pools be? There is no firm answer yet, but...
Storage news ticker – June 21
Spectra Logic has updated its Vail data management software, delivering access and placement of data across multi-site and multi-cloud storage:
A fully qualified on-premises...
Boffins design NAND and persistent memory in single SSD reference architecture
Academic researchers have designed a reference architecture SSD, with both NAND and persistent memory inside, for use in database logging and replication.
Such logging...
DiRAC’s Liqid pours GPUs into servers for cosmological research simulation runs
Durham University’s DiRAC supercomputer is getting composable GPU resources to model the evolution of the universe, courtesy of Liqid and its Matrix composability software.
VAST Data flash cost heading below nearline disk
VAST Data is making data reduction improvements to get its per-TB cost down to nearline disk levels and looks set to plunge below that level with coming...
Italy’s biggest bank uses Optane DIMMs and in-memory software to speed apps
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank, is using Optane hardware with MemVerge and Hazelcast system software to enlarge the effective memory pool for its servers and make applications...