Speedata outta stealth with $70m in funding and speedy analytics processing chip
Israeli startup Speedata revealed its existence today by showing off its big data analytics processing chip development and a $55 million funding round from keen VCs showing they think...
Google Cloud gains ease of use and enterprise enhancements
Google Cloud is getting reliability, availability and protection additions to its object, file and container functions that make it more firmly enterprise-class and also easier to use.
There are four...
Cisco UCS servers: nowhere to go, except out of Cisco?
Cisco’s UCS servers were downplayed in yesterday’s Cisco Investor Day presentation to financial analysts, suggesting servers are not a high-priority in Chuck Robbins’s company. So, what next for the...
Fidelma Russo is HPE’s new CTO
Ah, that’s why she left VMware — Fidelma Russo has joined HPE to become its new CTO.
She will lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for HPE and manage...
Flipping cells: 3D monolithic DRAM density increase strategy
DRAM is expensive, and servers have limited capacity through their socket architectures, but we need more DRAM as processors get more deeply involved in working on larger and larger...
Fidelma Russo leaves VMware GM role
Fidelma Russo, VMware’s SVP and General Manager of its Cloud Services Business Unit, abruptly resigned from the company on 5th September, with some indications that she had also been...
NAND industry consolidation leading to a trifecta
The attempt by Western Digital to merge with/take over its flash fab joint venture partner Kioxia has led many storage buffs to think about NAND industry consolidation, down to...
WD improves disk capacity in a flash; MAMR delayed
Western Digital has added a metadata-storing thumbnail-sized flash drive to the controller of a disk drive and increased its overall capacity and speed. It says a 50TB drive using...
Rambus HBM subsystem more than doubles HBM2E speed
Extended high-bandwidth memory (HBM2E) is barely here, yet Rambus already has a third-generation HBM subsystem ready for use, and it goes more than twice as fast.
Server and GPU memory...
NVIDIA/VMware/Dell Project Monterey server offload early access program
NVIDIA, Dell and VMware have started a Project Monterey Early Access Program so customers can explore whether servers offloaded with NVIDIA’s BlueField-2 SmartNIC can run applications faster. If this...
Tsinghua Unigroup needs a saviour — a rich and generous one
The bankrupt Tsinghua Unigroup is looking for a strategic investor or group to pump in ¥500 million ($77M) to its bank account as the first step in clearing its...
NetApp jumps on Windows 365/CloudPC bandwagon hoping for mucho-MSP moolah
NetApp has added Microsoft’s new Windows 365/CloudPC offering to its Spot cloud broking business and fashioned two offerings for MSPs, hoping for a share of business end-user subscription revenues.
Windows...