Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021
$5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies.
We charted the...
Fungible ups its hero DPU storage bandwidth stats by half – now claims...
Fungible has increased its NVMe/TCP storage-to-server bandwidth from 6.55 million to 10 million IOPS by replacing Mellanox NICS with its own Storage Initiator cards, and claimed a world record.
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Element invisibility in composable systems: PCIe vs Ethernet
There are granularity consequences of the network fabric choices made by composable systems suppliers. Go the PCIe route and you can compose elements inside a server as well as...
Liqid composability flows into VMware through vCenter plugin
VMware vCenter users can now dynamically compose servers on which to run virtual machine (VM) workloads with a Liqid software plug-in.
Traditionally vCenter users create virtual machines which run on...
Go go GigaIO as it composes a funding raise
Data centre network fabric startup GigaIO has raised $14.7 million in a B-round, following its $4.5 million A-round in 2018. That came six years after its 2012 founding and...
Pensando pulls in more DPU development cash
Data Processing Unit chip startup Pensando has had another $35 million invested in it, completing a C-round fund raise which had previously attracted $145 million in October 2019.
Pensando has...
Fungible can solve the public cloud Hotel California problem
DPU startup Fungible recently briefed Blocks & Files on its views regarding Intel's Infrastructure Processing Unit. Co-founder and CEO Pradeep Sindhu said it was inadequate as a data centre...
Want to make your storage sing? Then make sure it’s built for composability
SPONSORED If buoyant market figures are anything to go by, most enterprises already have a good grasp of the benefits of adopting hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). By tightly integrating compute,...
Intel: I’m already the biggest DPU shipper
Big beast Intel has come crashing out of the semiconductor jungle into the Data Processing Unit gang’s watering hole, saying it’s the biggest DPU shipper of all and it...
Roll-your-own server crew at Liqid add vCentre composable server plug-in
VMware vCentre users can compose server systems using Liqid’s Matrix fabric software via a plug-in.
Liqid uses its X86-based Matrix software software, controlling a PCIe switch and fabric, to dynamically...
OK, SANshine, how do you position Nebulon against external arrays, HCI, SmartNIC and DPU...
Analysis: Would-be SAN array and HCI rival Nebulon’s SPU (Storage Processing Unit) is a fresh way of delivering shared storage and other services by using what looks like hyper-converged...
GigaIO adds composability pods and clusters update for resource-chomping HPC and AI folks
Composability supplier GigaIO has updated its FabreX software to group its rackscale pooled accelerator resource units into pods of six cells and clusters of six pods, making up a...