Xilinx makes smarter, faster SmartNIC
Xilinx has announced a smarter and faster SN1000 SmartNIC that offloads more work from a host server CPU and can be programmed for specific functions.
A SmartNIC is a...
HPE heralds move to speedier SANS with faster Fibre Channel
HPE has introduced built-in telemetry and self-healing SAN features in the seventh generation of B-series Fibre Channel SAN directors, switches and HBAs. It has also doubled their speed.
Announcing the...
Life after Nvidia: Mellanox founder and CEO quits
Eyal Waldman, Mellanox CEO, is leaving the networking equipment company he founded, six months after its $7bn acquisition by Nvidia.
Waldman, who pocketed an estimated $270m, told Globes: "When we...
VMware wants to play nice with Nvidia DPUs
VMware and Nvidia announced yesterday they are working to make VMware software work better with Nvidia chips. They say the joint initiative, dubbed Project Monterey, will “introduce a new...
Broadcom launches first Gen 7 Fibre Channel switches
Broadcom’s first seventh generation 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel switching gear has hit the streets.
Fibre Channel (FC) is a high speed networking technology that links servers and SANs. The latest...
HPE’s Tom Black: Why storage and networking are different dialects of the same...
We had a quick interview with Tom Black, HPE Storage's inaugural boss, earlier this month. Black took on the job in January and is a 20-year networking veteran. He...
Nutanix hooks Calico into Karbon 2.1 Kubernetes management tool
Nutanix's goal for Karbon, a management app for Kubernetes, is to provide an integrated all-in-one framework to build and run containerised apps. That way, customers can go cloud-native with...
Rival post-PCIe bus standards groups sign peace treaty
Two rival groups developing CPU-peripheral bus standards have agreed to work together.
The CXL and Gen-Z groups announced yesterday a memorandum of understanding, which opens the door for future collaboration....
Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more
Data growth provides the fuel for our main items in this week's data storage news digest. Let's get cracking.
Backblaze cloud storage reaches exabyte milestone
Backblaze, a cloud storage provider, is...
VMware vSphere 7 adds NVMe-oF support to speed storage access
Earlier this week we covered the main details of VMware's blockbuster vSphere 7 launch. In this article we zoom in on VMware’s vSphere 7 support for NVMe over Fabrics...
Nvidia GPU uncorks storage bottleneck with Magnum IO, claims 20x speed up
The ceaseless quest for avoiding storage IO delays has alighted on GPUs and Nvidia has devised a way to bypass the host server CPU and memory and accelerate data...
Pensando’s AWS Nitro-killer network card does storage too
Q&A How does Pensando Systems work its server speed-enhancing magic?
The venture-back startup came out of stealth in late October and NetApp was revealed as a customer earlier this week.
At...