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Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last A3 Communications Technology Live! in London, I’ve got the opportunity to meet FADU and know more about their product and their business model. FADU is a fabless semiconductor company innovating flash storage technology and supply chain, that is supplying eSSDcontrollers to multiple NAND partner. Actually three generations of controllers are in mass production :
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware announced the deprecation of vFlash Read Cache (vFRC) in the release notes of vSphere 6.7 Update 2. vFRC continues to be supported for vSphere 6.0/6.5/6.7. However, the next major release will not. https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/04/vflash-read-cache-deprecation-announced.html
Reading Time: 18 minutesIntel® Optane™ Technology for Data Centers are a revolutionary solutions to bridge critical gaps in the storage and memory hierarchy delivering persistent memory, large memory pools, fast caching and fast storage. Basically there are two main Intel® Optane™ DC products: Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs
Reading Time: 2 minutesDDN is a company that, in more than 20 years (was founded in 1998), has designed, developed, deployed and optimized systems, software and solutions which enable enterprises, service providers, universities and government agencies to generate more value and accelerate time to insight from their data and information, on premise and in the cloud. It’s one the the leader in the HPC market (2/3 of the top 500 supercomputers run on DDN), the largest private storage company in world, with double digit growth, still profitable and self funded. During the last years DDN has enlarge its focus on […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDiablo Technologies was a private fabless semiconductor company formed in March 2002. Original founders were: Franco Forlini, Maher Amer, Michael Parziale, Riccardo Badalone. For over ten years, Diablo Technologies was a pioneer in the development of NVDIMM technologies for high-speed, low-power, and low-latency bridging and switching products targeted at the server and storage markets. Having developed memory buffer and software solutions leveraging an all-Flash memory sub-system, Diablo Technologies enabled an architecture to rewrite the rules of data center performance and economics.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on January 2019, Rambus acquired memory technology assets of Diablo Technologies and Diablo and the company is now closed. Diablo’s Memory1 is something unique: is a flash not only connected as a RAM DIMM, but that apper as a RAM DIMM! Now Diablo Technologies has announced the availability of Memory1™ servers from Super Micro Computer, a global leader in compute, storage and networking technologies. The SYS-1028U-TR4T+ has been qualified for both 1TB and 2TB Memory1 configurations – unleashing the power of “Big Memory for Big Data”. By leveraging Diablo’s Memory1 technology, Supermicro servers can […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesFlashGrid è un’azienda appena nata (fondata nel 2015) da alcuni veterani del mondo dello storage e del software (provenienti da aziende come Veritas, Intel, EMC, HGST, VMware, IBM). Il fondatore e attuale CEO, Alex Miroshnichenko è stato, in precedenza, CTO a Visto (l’azienda acquisita da VMware per realizzare il progetto Fargo, dal quale sono nate le snapshot usate nella nuova Virtual SAN 6.x, o i nuovi linked clone usati nel VDI, o anche l’idea con la quale creare e gestire i container in vSphere). During l’ultimo IT Press Tour #17, ho avuto l’occasione di incontrare i fondatori dell’azienda […]
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