Intel confirms Optane DIMM and SSD speed
Intel has revealed Optane DIMM and SSD read latency numbers.
Optane DIMMs and SSDs use 3D XPoint memory, which is non-volatile, faster than NAND but slower than DRAM, and based...
IBM enlists Nvidia for full-stack AI build-out
IBM has introduced Spectrum AI, a souped up integrated set of server, GPU and storage components. The reference architecture includes:
IBM Elastic Storage Server or Spectrum Scale NVMe all-flash appliance,...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
Samsung parades 4TB SSD in the consumer quad
Samsung has started shipping the 860 QVO, a 4TB QLC consumer SSD.
QLC means quad-level cell flash and 4bits per cell - one more than the typical TLC (3bit/ cell)...
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Cohesity goes up the Amazon
Cohesity, a converger of...
NetApp blows filer benchmark to smithereens
All-flash NetApp filers have blown the SPEC SFS 2014 SW Build benchmark record to hell and gone.
A 4-node system scored 2,200 and an 8-node one 4,200 - 2.8 times...
Escaping the DRAM price trap: Storage Class Memory, what it is and why it...
In this article we explore Storage-Class-Memory (SCM) and explain why it is ready for enterprise IT big time in 2019.
Setting the scene
DRAM is the gold standard for storing...
Fujitsu gets cosy with Vexata
Vexata has plugged into a big enterprise sales channel in the USA and Canada via a deal with Fujitsu to resell its bleeding edge NVMe storage arrays.
The companies will jointly...
HPE stuffs Optane into 3PAR arrays to speed Oracle workloads
HPE has announced Optane caching for its 3PAR arrays and this makes them chew through Oracle database workloads faster.
According to HPE, "92% of all 3PAR install base reads...
Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks
Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
Intel Optane-boosted cluster is giant whale in tiny benchmark puddle
Intel has chosen a small and under-populated benchmark performance pond in which to be a large price/performance fish.
The company has achieved a record price/performance on the IOmark VM benchmark...