Peter Pans – teenage startups with no filed IPO plans
What is a startup? What do you call a startup that refuses to grow up and have an IPO — a Peter Pan?
Is Nebulon, a four-year-old company that has...
Storage news ticker – November 19
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AT SC’21 Dell EMC announced new and updated Dell Technologies Validated Designs available for Siemens Simcenter Star CCM+. They provide multi-physics CFD simulation on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge...
And so it comes to pass: Gen-Z will be folded into CXL
In the tense game of poker whose stakes are defining the component interconnect post-PCIe, the Gen-Z consortium has folded. It will be absorbed into the Computer Express Link (CXL)...
You’ll go glassy eyed: 5-dimensional storage in silica glass
University of Southampton optical scientists say that a 127mm diameter silica glass disk could store 500TB of data using a five-dimensional recording technology.
This builds on earlier Project Silica research...
Yes, Intel, Optane is loss-making – but don’t give up
Storage consultant Chris Evans responded to our Optane-making-a-loss story with a tweet thread, pointing out that, although Optane revenues are fairly low and it is losing money, “Intel is...
Intel Optane losses laid bare in SEC report
Intel’s 10-Q SEC filing for the third 2021 quarter ended September 25 reveals its Optane business lost $473 million in the first nine months of 2020.
The 10-Q contains a...
Ditch the switch: stealth-exiting Rockport Networks says it has a better way
Rockport Networks has exited stealth with a switchless datacentre network product that it claims can carry data traffic faster and with better latency than switched networks, yet is a...
Totenpass stores data on a gold-plated nickel slab
Totenpass, a New York state company run by a contrarian investor, gold trader, jeweller, and bitcoin miner, is beta-testing a system for storing data for 100 years on credit...
Storage news ticker tape … …
Storage news comes in waves and there’s so much of it right now that the production of a weekly digest can’t keep up. Here’s the latest batch of news...
NetApp setting up streaming TV service — but Netflix is in no danger of...
NetApp is setting up its own streaming TV service, starting with digital content from its Insight 2021 virtual event and including a performance by Sting. You remember Sting?
There will...
Samsung SW virtualises CXL-attached memory
Samsung has an open-source Scalable Memory Development Kit (SMDK) which virtualises memory attached to the CXL interconnect.
The Compute eXpress Link is a developing open, industry-backed standard interconnect to enable...
Double-helix data storage developer Catalog gets funding boost
Spurred on by the development of its DNA storage Shannon system, Catalog has taken in $35 million in B-round funding to help devise a storage and computation system based...