Bare-faced metal-weaving cheek — Dell pachyderm moves into RobinIO’s 5G telco room
A great big Dell elephant has invaded Robin.io’s telco market for Kubernetes-based orchestration with its Bare Metal Orchestrator.
Robin.io has grown its Kubernetes storage facility into a complete 5G system...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage,...
Lightbits gets NVMe/TCP certification, enters enterprise software-defined storage ring
Startup Lightbits has gained NVMe/TCP certification from VMware with vSphere 7 Update 3 for its LightOS software and is now competing head-on with other NVMe/TCP storage suppliers.
LightOS is a...
Fungible joins the NVMe/TCP party with a go-faster card
Data processing unit (DPU) startup Fungible has launched a Storage Initiator card supporting NVMe/TCP and says it makes deploying NVMe/TCP effortless in existing datacentres.
The card is the latest member...
More power for PowerStore: Dell adds NVMe/TCP networking to unified file+block array
Taking advantage of VMware’s NVMe/TCP support Dell is adding it to the PowerStore array product line via a SmartFabric Storage Software (SFSS) feature.
Dell says it is the first supplier...
Full speed ahead — VMware adds support for NVMe/TCP and Optane persistent memory snapshots
VMware has updated vSphere and vSAN to provide faster storage networking, better Optane support, more cloud-native features, simplified operations and better vSAN resilience and security in an Update 3...
A slow burn: SmartNIC sales to grow to over $1.5 billion in 2026
The SmartNIC revolution is going to be a slow-burn one, with Gartner predicting there will only be $1.6 billion of sales in 2026, up from $50 million in 2020.
Wells...
Broadcom server-storage connectivity sales down but recovery coming
Although Broadcom saw an overall rise in revenues and profit in its latest quarter, sales in the server-to-storage connectivity area were down. It expects a recovery and has cash...
Fire hoser Vcinity creates global LAN from WAN using RDMA over IP
Vcinity’s Data Access Platform (VDAP) defeats remote data gravity, providing local disk access speed to data at inter-continental distances.
It goes against the perceived wisdom by not moving entire datasets...
Your occasional storage digest with Broadcom, DRAM, Datto and Veeam
It's time to visit with old friends this week as Fibre Channel lives on at higher speeds, DRAM demand increases, and backup revenues rise nicely. That's true for both...
Fancy a decongestant? Cisco intros ‘slow drain’ tech for 64gig Fibre Channel
Cisco has launched its 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel offering with a slow drain technology that should prevent overwhelmed devices congesting the network.
Fibre Channel (FC) is a lossless storage networking fabric...
Pliops raises $65m. Nvidia alliance in the works?
Pliops, the Israeli storage processing unit startup, has secured $65m in C-round funding to help ready the company for product launch this year.
The C-round was led by Koch...