Spec group OpenCAPI: OMI can fix DDR and HBM memory capacity problems
The OMI serial bus gets more memory near to the CPU than either parallel DDR memory channels or High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) at HBM speed levels, faster than DDR channels.
That's...
Hey MSPs! join Zadara’s Federated Edge to fight cloud giants
Zadara has launched a global Federated Edge offering for managed service providers (MSPs), who will sell private cloud services to their customers using Zadara’s global infrastructure and so fend...
Gartner: external storage spend to lag server spend 2019-2025
Server-based IT expenditure will grow three times faster than external storage spending, over 2019-2025, according to Gartner forecasts.
Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers has presented tabulated Gartner data to...
Samsung builds whopping 512GB DDR5 memory module
Samsung has produced the largest capacity DDR5 DRAM stick in the world at 512GB.
Update: 26 March; Samsung speed claim queried.
DDR5 or Double Data Rate 5 is faster than the...
CXL and the developing memory hierarchy
A new memory hierarchy is emerging, as two recent developments show. In no particular order, Micron walked away from 3D XPoint and SK hynix revealed new categories and of...
More leads now! NetApp revamps sale leadership to speed up its act
NetApp has anointed a new sales leadership team under the helm of President César Cernuda.
The members are:
Rick Scurfield, who is promoted from SVP, Globals, Verticals, and Pathways to...
Storage includes RAM, says UK Court of Appeal
A ruling in a court case in the UK concerning intercepts of encrypted EncroChat mobile phone messages has decided that data in the phone’s RAM was being stored: nonsense...
IBM storage sales ride (slowly) in tandem with mainframe cycle
Analysis: Storage sales from IBM’s Systems unit declined in its fourth calendar quarter as the z15 mainframe cycle continues to wind down.
As The Register reports, IBM's Q4 2020...
My Net Promoter Score is considerably better than yours
From time to time, vendors publish their Net Promotor Score (NPS) as a way to trumpet how great they are - and by extension how much better they are...
Micron’s good Q1fy21 results as DRAM industry cycle starts rebound
Micron has posted first fiscal 2021 quarter’s revenues of $5.77bn, up 12 per cent Y/Y. The US semiconductor maker chalked up net income of $803m for the quarter ended...
In praise of the bezel (but make sure it’s a good one)
Bezels are a neglected aspect of data storage hardware, and I think that's a shame.
Bezels are everywhere in data centres but their design gets little attention, no credit and...
The terrible Tib, GiB and PiB game
The data storage industry uses MiB, GiB, TiB and PiB measures and different MB. GB, TB and PB measures and this confuses the heck out of many people. The...