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...
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...