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• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  DataCore Software buys Caringo to fill object storage gap

  DataCore's acquisition of object storage pioneer Caringo plugs a hole in its software-defined storage and advances its goal of block, file and object storage from a single vendor.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Hyperscale shift to 18 TB, SMR HDDs top '21 hard disk trends

  New 20 TB energy-assisted and SMR hard disk options are starting to ship, but experts predict the top 2021 trend in data center hard drives will be the transition to 18 TB HDDs.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Vast Data storage packages Nvidia GPU for AI processing

  Vast Data storage reference architecture combines the vendor's Universal Storage all-flash system with Nvidia DGX supercomputers. NFS multipathing over RDMA boosts AI data training.

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Hitachi Vantara follows the herd on Kubernetes storage

  HKS allows Hitachi Unified Compute Systems systems to directly manage file volumes and objects on clustered Kubernetes nodes. Hitachi acquired the software code from Containership.

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  New Infinidat CEO discusses storage transition

  Ex-Western Digital exec Phil Bullinger replaces founder Moshe Yanai as CEO of storage vendor Infinidat. Bullinger says Infinidat surpassed 6 exabytes under management last year.

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• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Services, cloud dominated data storage news in 2020

  Storage as a service, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes storage, economic fallout from COVID-19, and backup mergers and acquisitions dominated data storage news in 2020.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Enterprise data storage startups to watch in 2021

  Launching a data storage startup is always challenging, and the pandemic made it even tougher in 2020. Here are six startups that can change the way enterprises buy storage.

• December 31, 2020 31 Dec'20

  30 TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 20 TB HDDs push storage limits in 2020

  Enterprise storage drives continued to push the limits of performance and capacity in 2020, with fast new PCIe Gen4 SSDs at 30 TB and energy-assisted HDDs at 20 TB.

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  VMware sues new Nutanix CEO Ramaswami for breach of contract

  VMware said Nutanix CEO Ramaswami broke his contractual obligations when he interviewed for top job at its HCI rival while still working as VMware's chief operating officer.

• December 28, 2020 28 Dec'20

  Zadara VPSAs help power Pratum security services

  Security services firm Pratum was ahead of the curve in adopting Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array (VSPA) storage as a service to quickly scale capacity and performance.

• December 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

  Research lab mixes Excelero NVMesh, SSDs for performance pop

  La Jolla Institute turned to Excelero NVMesh to help deal with SSD storage required for COVID-19 research, two 10-foot microscopes generating TBs of data a day, and remote work.

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  Veeam acquisition, Google-Actifio highlight 2020 storage M&A

  Data protection vendors Veeam, Actifio and Datrium were acquisition targets in 2020; Google and VMware opened their wallets; and Intel sold its memory business -- but kept Optane.

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  Wholesaler rings up Christmas sales with HPE Nimble Storage

  National Tree Company remedied sluggish performance with an HPE Nimble Storage dHCI converged all-flash system, boosting order processing and sales in time for the holidays.

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Intel launches fastest Optane SSD, 144-layer QLC NAND SSDs

  New additions to Intel's memory and storage product roadmap include Optane's fastest solid-state drive yet and dense 144-layer QLC NAND SSDs that top out at 30.72 TB.

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Seagate, Western Digital outline progress on RISC-V designs

  Seagate and Western Digital provide updates on their RISC-V-enabled processor designs that can drive advances in data storage and security at the network's edge.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Hitachi takes its NVMe flash storage into midrange

  Hitachi storage for E Series adds two midrange block arrays based on NVMe flash technology. E590 and E790 scale to 360 TB and differ in processing performance.

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  EBS Block Express helps AWS reinvent cloud SAN

  Most of AWS' storage updates at AWS re:Invent 2020 make enterprise features more accessible to non-enterprise customers, but its Block Express high-IOPS volumes are unique.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Lenovo storage expands NVMe with midrange DM ThinkSystem

  Server vendor Lenovo wants to grow its ThinkSystem storage business. The DM5100F NVMe Lenovo storage array integrates S3 protocol for unified data management.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  All-flash array adoption rises for NetApp, HPE

  NetApp credits AFA flash array sales as key to its gaining market share, while HPE reports significant flash increase despite overall decline in storage revenue.

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Intel's 3D XPoint dominance will face challenge from Micron

  Intel's Optane memory and storage products have no competition now, but that will change as Micron and potentially other vendors ramp up production in the future.

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  Next Pathway gives data warehouses a route to the cloud

  Next Pathway has introduced Crawler360, a tool for helping customers size and cost their migration from legacy data warehouses such as Netezza and Teradata to cloud platforms.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Dell still waiting for PowerStore to power up

  Dell EMC's flashy new PowerStore array has done little to remediate the leading storage vendor's shrinking midrange market share, allowing competitors to gain ground.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Pure Storage cloud licensing buoys vendor's fortunes

  Pure Storage cloud revenue grew by double digits last quarter. A new service catalog guides customers to categorize workloads for predictable performance and pricing.

• November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20

  Dense processing fuels Pavilion Data storage performance

  Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array clusters multiple controllers in unified namespace that spans racks and chassis. Pavilion storage scales 2.2 PB of raw NVMe flash.

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Qumulo storage adds NVMe cache to NAS stash

  The Qumulo storage software code was written to operate in containers in microservices environments. The vendor swapped SATA SSDs for NVMe to cache data in front of capacity disk.

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Flash storage debate heats up over QLC SSDs vs. HDDs

  QLC flash storage is exerting pressure on spinning disk for mass storage and archiving use cases -- but HDDs will stick around for years if not decades, industry experts predict.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  COVID-19 research generates big data, invaluable info

  When supporting COVID-19 research that could uncover treatment for the pandemic, IT and storage pros want to make sure they're 'not the bottleneck' in the process.

• November 18, 2020 18 Nov'20

  Kioxia flash storage sews NVMe fabric onto Kubernetes

  Kioxia's KumoScale virtualizes NVMe block volumes for consumption by file and object storage. The Kioxia flash invokes native TCP/IP drivers to install an NVMe-oF layer.

• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  NVMe, Optane, GPUs exert big impact on enterprise storage

  Enterprises in need of high-performance storage for AI, analytics and virtualization may find help in new NVMe, Optane and processor technologies, a Flash Memory Summit panel says.

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Flash storage grows up with new EDSFF SSDs, denser 3D NAND

  Expansive new directions for flash memory technology shine brightly in the launch of 176-layer 3D NAND chips, EDSFF E1.S and Zoned Namespace SSDs, and computational storage drives.

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Quantum NAS options expand with All-Terrain File System

  Quantum adds to its NAS lineup with All-Terrain File System aimed at general-purpose use cases while enhancing its StorNext parallel file system and ActiveScale object storage.

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  Adoption of Intel Optane persistent memory picks up in 2020

  Intel provides an update on adoption trends for its Optane persistent memory modules, showing that SAP HANA, virtualization and high-performance computing are top use cases.

• October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20

  StorCentric buys flash storage pioneer Violin to fill gap

  StorCentric's storage portfolio added an NVMe-based midrange option to its Nexsan and Vexata lines with the acquisition of beleaguered all-flash array pioneer Violin Systems.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  IBM Spectrum protects OpenShift container data

  IBM seeks to outdo Tanzu; Spectrum Protect for Red Hat OpenShift launches as new containers are spun into operation, and protects OpenShift Container Storage with snapshots.

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Video game hosting company uses Optane memory to cut costs

  Intel's Optane persistent memory modules enable a global online game hosting provider to expand memory and lower costs over DRAM with negligible performance difference.

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  NetApp Spot tools abstract compute, storage for containers

  NetApp Spot optimizes containers for OnTap storage. The objective is to boost data management and protection as containers migrate between Kubernetes clusters.

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  StorCentric enters data management with Data Mobility Suite

  StorCentric's Data Mobility Suite helps customers manage and move data across heterogeneous storage environments. It is entering a market space with stiff competition.

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  NetApp cloud overshadows everything else at Insight 2020

  NetApp stitches cloud services with its Data Fabric technology. NetApp Insight 2020 will showcase new cloud consumption options and storage for microservices-based applications.

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Project Apex brings Dell into battle to control IT services

  If you were looking for new products at Dell Tech World 2020, you went to the wrong place. It's all about Dell's Project Apex initiative for selling infrastructure as a service.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Dell cloud shoots high with Project Apex initiative

  Dell's cloud focus culminates in launch of Project Apex, which allows data centers to flexibly consume IT and storage infrastructure as a cloud-delivered service on premises.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Intel offloads NAND flash memory to SK Hynix for $9 billion

  Intel exits NAND flash business with $9 billion sale to rival SK Hynix to focus on faster Optane SSDs and memory modules, AI, 5G networking and edge computing.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Cloud NAS vendor Ctera adds security, migration Mac support

  Along with making its NAS platform faster and more secure across multiple clouds, Ctera adds Mac support for its Enterprise File Services Platform's more creative users.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  DDN storage unifies IntelliFlash, Nexenta, Tintri pickups

  DDN launches IntelliFlash H-Series and Tintri VMstore T7000 hybrid arrays. The new NVMe-based systems incorporate technology from recent DDN storage acquisitions.

• October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  NetApp OnTap 9.8 revamps replication, storage arrays

  NetApp OnTap SnapMirror Business Continuity provides failover with granular copy management. NetApp FAS and AFF arrays hit the market as file vendor gears up for digital user event.

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  File system software startup Quobyte chases IT, developers

  Quobyte tempts developers and app owners with a free version of its distributed parallel file system software, hoping they will convince their IT admins to buy fully supported editions.

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Komprise expands data management coverage to Azure

  Komprise deepened its relationship with Microsoft, opening shop in Azure Marketplace and enabling customers to easily manage hot and cold data between Azure and Azure Blob.

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  StorOne storage system flexes data protection muscles

  StorOne enhances its All-Flash Array.next storage system based on Intel Optane and QLC NAND drives with data protection features for disaster recovery.

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Dell EMC, Pure embrace VMware storage innovations

  VMware Site Recovery Manager for Virtual Volumes lets customers replicate VMs with Dell EMC PowerMax snapshots. VMware storage management includes Tanzu for Kubernetes clusters.

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  All-flash Vast Data storage trains AI data at LightSpeed

  Vast Data LightSpeed combines bulk QLC SSD storage with Intel Optane acceleration. The system supports Nvidia beta technology allowing writes from storage to GPU.

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Red Hat OpenShift Storage rides wave of container momentum

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) now part of IBM Spectrum Discover catalog and focuses on bringing containers into production infrastructure.

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  WANdisco launches automated Hadoop data migrator for AWS

  WANdisco LiveData Migrator moves Hadoop data while avoiding downtime. Although niche, it solves the hurdle of migrating Hadoop data while it's going through active changes.

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  MinIO brings high-performance object storage to VMware Tanzu

  MinIO brings software-defined, cloud-native object storage to VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu through the newly launched vSAN Data Persistence platform.

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Rivals Cloudian, Scality embrace all-flash object storage

  Primarily used as a disk repository, object storage use cases are evolving to support workloads that need fast flash. Rivals Cloudian and Scality provide the latest evidence.

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Pure Storage acquires Portworx for container management

  Pure Storage container support includes the Pure Service Orchestrator. Portworx will operate as a new Pure Cloud Native business unit focused on storage for cloud apps.

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Dell layoffs mark the latest distress signal from tech companies

  Dell layoffs started this week and may extend to next year. It is the latest among IT infrastructure vendors to tighten budgets amid COVID-19.

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Kaminario storage dons Silk, vows smooth cloud migrations

  Here is the story behind why Kaminario changed its name to Silk and launched the Silk Cloud Data Platform that builds on Kaminario storage stack and runs in Google cloud.

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Law firm makes compelling case for Pure Storage all-flash

  CSK Legal first used Pure Storage all-flash arrays to move VMs to VMware vSphere. Primary Pure FlashArray replicates VMs to second target used exclusively for backups.

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Bloomberg storage engineering team leans on open source, SDS

  The Bloomberg Storage Engineering team built an internal storage cloud that has withstood great trading volatility during the pandemic and keeps 'infrastructure out of the way.'

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  Datadobi locks critical data in an air-gapped vault

  Datadobi's DobiProtect replication product lets customers store business-critical unstructured data in its native format in an air-gapped, limited-access vault.

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Dell EMC storage revenue slides as IT spending contracts

  The Dell storage subsidiary reported a revenue decline last quarter. PowerMax and VxRail were the bright spots in Dell EMC storage. New PowerStore is expected to ramp sales in 2022.

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Layoffs put damper on positive NetApp storage earnings

  NetApp storage growth was modest last quarter, despite the pandemic, but not sufficient to forestall layoffs. The cuts include engineers and sales professionals at SolidFire.

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Nimbus adds cheaper 64 TB QLC SSDs to complement 100 TB SSD

  New 3.5-inch 64 TB SSDs from Nimbus Data with QLC flash offer a higher-performance alternative to HDDs for enterprises trying to reduce power, cooling and rack space costs.

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Pure Storage FlashArray//C set sights on hybrid flash market

  Pure Storage FlashArray//C incorporates QLC NAND-based SSDs in the vendor's DirectFlash modules. The arrays are positioned as an alternative to hybrid flash for backup and DR.

• August 24, 2020 24 Aug'20

  Portworx storage update offers backup, provisioning modules

  The Portworx storage platform enables data persistence in large Kubernetes clusters. Data backup, automated capacity planning modules are generally available.

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  SSD and NAND flash prices will decline through start of 2021

  NAND flash and enterprise SSD prices that spiked in early 2020 will continue to fall through the end of the year and into 2021 as demand weakens, industry analysts predict.

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  TrueNAS Enterprise, TrueNAS Core merge as single storage OS

  Established as a systems integrator, iXsystems sells open source NAS appliances. A single software code now unifies the TrueNAS Enterprise and TrueNAS Core versions.

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Data storage vendors face 'uncertain' future during pandemic

  COVID-19 has thrown IT and storage spending into pandemic mode, making it hard for vendors and IT teams to get a handle on when they'll rebound.

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  NetApp Data Fabric aids manufacturer's gene-sequencing gear

  Pacific Biosciences makes equipment and systems for gene sequencing and life sciences. The company uses NetApp Data Fabric to scale capacity and performance for shared storage.

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  IBM storage GM Walsh leaves Big Blue for startup ChaosSearch

  IBM recruited Ed Walsh in 2016 to revive its flagging storage division. Analysts credit Walsh for prioritizing all-flash and cloud data services. Now he’s heading to ChaosSearch.

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Panasas storage revs up parallelization for HPC workloads

  Panasas storage software focuses on novel method to boost capacity and efficiency. Dynamic Data Acceleration in PanFS shuttles data to disk or flash based on file size.

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Qumulo cloud approach gang-tackles file-to-object conversion

  Qumulo grabs $125 million in funding as the file storage world shifts to the cloud; CEO Bill Richter says unstructured data growth presents an opportunity that could lead to IPO.

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  COVID-19 dominates enterprise storage news so far this year

  The year hasn't gone as expected in enterprise storage, with the pandemic affecting conferences, sales results, use cases, funding and even CEO health.

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  What's in a name? Dell EMC PowerFlex brand replaces VxFlex

  Vendor claims hundreds of Dell EMC PowerFlex customers in education, finance and healthcare. It marks the second name change for ScaleIO platform that EMC bought in 2013.

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering

  Lightbits Labs' LightOS now enables application servers to access NVMe flash SSDs in a cluster of servers -- not just a single box -- over standard Ethernet via NVMe over TCP.

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Hitachi Content Platform integrates WekaIO file storage

  Hitachi Content Platform G-11 object storage nodes get refreshed with startup WekaIO's parallel file system. The WekaFS is optimized for Hitachi VSP all-flash arrays.

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Nasuni aims cloud NAS at remote work, battles NetApp, Isilon

  Unlike cloud NAS rival Panzura, Nasuni execs say they have their sights set on going public rather than getting acquired; count on remote work improvements, funding for growth.

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  SUSE goes ranching and lassos a container storage startup

  SUSE Storage Enterprise is based on commercially supported Ceph. The Linux distribution vendor reportedly will shell out $600-$700 million for Rancher Labs' Kubernetes technology.

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Data migration specialist Datadobi adds S3-to-S3 support

  Datadobi's DobiMigrate software could help customers shift data between Amazon S3 and on-premises S3-based object stores, helping eliminate egress fees charged by public clouds.

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  IBM stretches its Elastic Storage line to speed AI, big data

  New IBM storage will help to optimize AI software used to analyze data and inference results. The disk-based Elastic Storage System 5000 scales to yottabyte capacities.

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Pure Storage CEO back after COVID-19 battle

  Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo said it took him a month to recover from an extended bout with coronavirus. Meanwhile, Pure's revenue grew by 12% last quarter despite the pandemic.

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  New PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 24 Gbps SAS SSDs supply bandwidth boost

  A new wave of bandwidth-doubling enterprise SSDs are on the way from major drive manufacturers to support PCIe Gen 4 and 24 Gbps SAS in enterprise storage arrays and servers.

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Western Digital will package new NVMe SSD into NVMe-oF JBOF

  Western Digital is prepping a new NVMe over Fabrics-based JBOF storage device that will bundle its highest-performance Ultrastar SN840 NVMe SSDs and RapidFlex network adapters.

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  Qumulo cloud upgrade transforms files to Amazon object format

  Qumulo Shift for Amazon Web Services S3 copies data directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service, without mount points or application rewrites, to enable file sharing directly in AWS.

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Startup StorOne incorporates Intel Optane

  StorOne claims it will show the storage giants how to get the most out of Intel Optane drives, incorporating them alongside cheaper QLC SSDs in an all-flash array.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Gen 2 Intel Optane memory modules claim bandwidth boost

  Designed for use with Intel's new Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, the next version of Optane memory modules is expected to ship in servers in late 2020.

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  HPE 3PAR vets launch cloud-defined storage startup Nebulon

  Nebulon Cloud-Defined Storage is on-premises-based, using controllers on PCI cards inside servers and AI-driven cloud management for application owners.

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Google Filestore adds Elastifile tech for high-scale tier

  Google's new Elastifile-based Filestore High Scale gives customers a higher-performing file storage option over the cloud provider's original basic options.

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  Dell EMC turns Isilon NAS into PowerScale, adds objects

  Dell EMC PowerScale combines a modified version of the Isilon OneFS software tuned for Dell PowerEdge servers. The systems provide unified access to files and unstructured data.

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  HPE goes NVMe storage for Primera, SCM on Nimble

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise automates storage optimizations for HPE Primera SANs. Customers now may replicate HPE storage snapshots to a third Nimble Storage array or the cloud.

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Pure Storage FlashArray gets file support, meatier DR

  Pure Storage Purity FA 6.0 OS continuously replicates production data between FlashArray nodes. Pure FlashArray File services allow file and block storage to share flash.

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  NetApp hybrid cloud infrastructure management hits the Spot

  NetApp makes its third cloud-related acquisition of 2020; the company says it will buy Spot, which uses machine learning to optimize cloud capacity and reduce infrastructure costs.

• June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20

  Cloudian gets analytical with HyperIQ

  Cloudian's new HyperIQ tool aims to provide deeper insight into object storage to help manage installations that can run into petabytes and span locations.

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  5 ways COVID-19 changed the data storage market

  The global pandemic accelerated some shifts in the data storage market and brought about new trends that storage CEOs predict will stick around for the long term.

• June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20

  New SoftIron management tool targets Ceph storage complexity

  Newcomer SoftIron takes on the likes of Red Hat and SUSE with ARM-based Ceph storage appliance and software that make it easier to scale and manage the hardware.

• May 28, 2020 28 May'20

  Kioxia gives hyperscalers new custom flash drive options

  Kioxia's software-enabled flash aims to provide greater host control over storage, data placement and data access to hyperscalers that optimize SSDs for specific workloads.

• May 28, 2020 28 May'20

  Startup LucidLink bundles AWS S3 into cloud storage service

  Startup LucidLink positions Filespaces as a public cloud option for people who want to replace on-premises NAS without turning to cheap but slow object storage.

• May 26, 2020 26 May'20

  Nimbus, StorOne try to disrupt enterprise storage pricing

  Enterprise storage pricing is often shrouded in mystery, but Nimbus Data and StorOne are attempting to shake up the status quo with new tools that give buyers discounted prices on the spot.

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  Dell EMC Isilon file storage floats into Google public cloud

  Storage vendor claims Dell EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out file system pairs with rapid compute to deliver high-performance analytics in Google Cloud Platform.

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  Storj Labs builds storage cloud using other people's disks

  Have spare disk capacity that you can rent? Want object storage in the cloud? Either way, Storj has a proposition for you with its peer-to-peer blockchain-influenced network.

• May 18, 2020 18 May'20

  MemVerge pushes big memory computing for every app

  MemVerge claims its Memory Machine software layered on Intel Optane DIMMs and DRAM creates petabyte-sized logical pool to power all applications in main memory.