Storage Networking

Sitting on the dock of Bay Microsystems, Vcinity says data distance is no problem

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Vcinity, a San Jose networking startup, has transferred 1PB of file data across a 4,350 mile, 100 Gbit/s WAN,  with 70 ms latency in 23 hours and 16 minutes. It...

Life after PCIe. Intel gang backs Compute Express Link (CXL)

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Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, HPE, Huawei, Intel, and Microsoft are working together on Compute Express Link (CXL), a new high-speed CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory interconnect  technology. The CXL consortium...

Nvidia acquires Mellanox for $6.9bn

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Nvidia is buying Mellanox, the Ethernet and InfiniBand data centre networking supplier, for $6.9 billion. Nvidia will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for...

NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design

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Poorly-designed NVMe/TCP networks can get clogged with NVMe traffic and fail to deliver the low latency that NVMe/TCP is designed to deliver in the first place. The SNIA has an...

Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap

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Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast  and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...

How does NetApp’s MAX Data use Storage-Class Memory? Let’s find out

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In this article we explore NetApp's MAX Data use of server-based Storage Class Memory to slay the data access latency dragon? But first, a brief recap: MAX Data is server-side...
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E8 displaces DDN at top of genomics research team’s storage stack

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Queen Mary University of London's (QMUL)'s genomics research team generated too much data for its high performance computing infrastructure to handle comfortably. And so the university's IT department set out...

NFLEX genuflects to SAP

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Fujitsu and NetApp have gained the SAP seal of approval for their joint NFLEX converged system. NFLEX is similar in concept to the Dell EMC-Cisco VxBlocks and the set-up features...

Virtual Instruments gives VirtualWisdom a big makeover

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Virtual Instruments has released VirtualWisdom 6.0, a major release of its infrastructure performance monitoring product. V6.0 adds cloud integrations and extended correlation of events across infrastructure elements to better visualise...

Tintri co-founders join DDN

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Tintri co-founders Kieran Harty and Mark Gritter have joined DDN's Tintri business unit.  Gritter assumes the CTO position while Harty has the more nebulous role of "full-time advisor". In a...

Inspur joins SPC-1 benchmark league table

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Chinese server and storage vendor Inspur has leapt into the SPC-1 benchmark rankings, beating a top-end IBM array with a much lower price/performance rating. The SPC-1 benchmark tests a storage...

Integrate all the things! Virtual Instruments goes TAP dancing

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Virtual Instruments is setting up a Technical Alliance Program to better sell its products in conjunction with integrated upper stack performance monitoring offerings. The Virtual Instruments Technology Alliance Programme (VITAP)...