Intel announces Optane DIMM support with Gen 2 Xeon SP processors and QLC ruler
As expected Intel has updated its Xeon processor line and shone a bright light on Optane DIMM (DC Persistent Memory) general availability.
It’s also announced a dual-port Optane SSD and...
AMD gets Western Digital Memory Extension tech for EPYC Optane battle
AMD has announced it’s using Western Digital’s Memory Extension technology to provide servers with greater effective memory capacity and so take on Optane DRAM extension technology.
The Ultrastar DC ME200...
A potted history of all-flash arrays
Fourteen years ago Violin Memory began life as an all-flash array vendor, aiming to kick slower-performing disk drive arrays up their laggardly disk latency butt. Since then 18 startups...
Vexata dredges new channels as storm clouds gather
Vexata, the extreme high-performance storage array startup, has laid off several staff and imposed pay cuts, according to industry sources. The company declined to comment on pay or confirm...
Zoned SSDs live fast, die old, Western Digital claims
Western Digital is developing zoned SSDs that can be managed by host systems to speed data access and prolong the life of the drives.
This could make short-life...
Dell EMC refreshes Unity arrays with splash of Skylake and NVMe
Dell next month will refresh the Unity mid-range storage array line with Skylake Xeon processors and NVMe – the latter as expected after I revealed the firm's plan in...
Micron offers NVMe SSDs for laptops
Micron Technology has introduced a portfolio of SSD drives with NVMe support in the space-saving M.2 form factor, aimed at delivering accelerated read/write performance with lower latency for client...
Dell blabs mid-range storage box details – but not to us
Earlier this month we asked Dell EMC to discuss the features of its upcoming unified mid-range storage server. The company declined our request, saying it was too soon...
Lightbits unveils NVMe/TCP product. Toshiba adds NVMe/TCP support to Kumoscale
You wait for a bus for ages and then two come along at once. So it is with NVMe/TCP - Toshiba and Lightbits Labs have introduced NVMe/TCP product on...
Vexata hives off software for partners to build 20 million IOPS arrays
Targeting cloud providers, Vexata has separated its software and hardware, to offering file and block access software on commodity servers.
in October 2017 Vexata introduced a 7 million IOPS...
NGD Systems heralds in-situ processing for NVMe SSDs
NGD Systems has announced general availability of the first product in the Newport platform of high capacity NVMe SSDs.
The Irvine, Calif. startup makes big claims for the product family which provides computational storage...
Western Digital tag teams with WekaIO for HPC+ML workloads
Western Digital Capital has made a strategic investment in WekaIO. The amount is undisclosed.
WD aims to increase penetration of NVMe flash and object storage in enterprises and WekaIO's Matrix...