Today Micron Technology announced that it is shipping its new Micron 1α DRAM products in volume. 1α, or 1-alpha, is said to be the most advanced DRAM process technology and offering major improvements in bit density, power, and performance. This new DRAM will be shipped out across Micron’s portfolio from data centers, mobile devices, to
In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Aerospike Connector for Presto hits general availability. Data Dynamics Releases StorageX 8.4. TerraMaster Released TOS 4.2. VAST Data and NVIDIA announce new reference architecture. OVHcloud teams up with IBM and Atempo
Today, Dell Technologies announced its Dell EMC PowerStore metro node. Dell EMC PowerStore is the companies midrange storage array that is stated to be up to seven times faster. The newly announced metro node is aimed at addressing business continuity challenges.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Clumio gains ISO 27701 certification. Red Kubes announces Otomi Container platform. WekaIO celebrates a strong year. Microchip begins production of 24G SAS/PCIe Gen 4 Tri-mode storage controllers. Seagate CORTX hits GA. Veritas
Memory has always been the one type of hardware that delivered on the promise of massive speeds. There are a few drawbacks: it is expensive, it is limited in capacity, and it isn’t persistent (in order to maintain the data, memory needs to be powered on, which is further problematic as memory needs a periodic
This week at the all-digital CES 2021, Phison Electronics Corp. announced that it will be showcasing a handful of its new SSD controllers. These controllers are aimed at gaming and content creators. The new controllers are the Phison PS2251-17 (U17), PS2251-18 (U18), Phison (E21T), Phison PS5018-E18 (E18), and the Phison BGA SSD-E13T (E13T).
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NETGEAR made several business announcements for CES. Computex achieves Nutanix Cloud Champion Status. BackupAssist partners with Wasabi. SingleStore adds AWS Glue.
During the Intel Memory and Storage Moment 2020, Intel shared performance numbers for the Optane persistent memory 200 series in a DAOS instance. These preliminary performance numbers are based on the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable architecture with Intel Optane PMem 100 Series vs. the Intel Optane PMem 200 Series running in brand new system design. DAOS
Google has announced Confidential Computing virtual machines (VMs) on the Google Compute Engine, powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors’ security. Within the disclosure, Google declared they had completed the rollout of Confidential Computing to general availability in nine regions; made possible to partners such as AMD, Red Hat, SUSE, Thales, and others. Confidential Computing can provide
Announced in June, the StorONE All-Flash is a 2U array that is all about the price to performance. The company has done a few interesting things here with storage tiering. As opposed to using Intel Optane SSD as a cache, the StorONE array uses Optane as its top tier of storage. StorONE further cements its
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