NVM-Express has been on a steady roll for the past several years, a hot technology in a storage industry that is looking for ways to best address the insatiable demand for higher performance and throughput and lower latency driven by the need to process data faster and more securely. …
Disaggregated storage has become the norm in large-scale infrastructure and we expect that in 2019 those who are pushing the limits with NVMe will have quite a successful year—vendors as well as their hyperscale and high performance computing users. …
NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage stack and the limitations of interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and instead pipe data directly into and out of the CPU through the high-speed PCI Express bus. …
For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone of its storage infrastructure. …
Dell EMC has long been a vocal proponent of NVM-Express, the up and coming protocol that cuts out the CPU jib-jab with PCI-Express peripherals and that boost throughput and drops latency for flash and other non-volatile memory. …
Cavium has raised its profile over the past several years as one of the pioneers in developing Arm-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for servers, rolling out multiple generations of its ThunderX chips in hope of pushing Arm’s low-power architecture make gains in a datacenter environment that for years has been dominated by Intel and its x86-based Xeons. …
Details about the technologies being used in Canada’s newest and most powerful research supercomputer have been coming out in a piecemeal fashion over the past several months, but now the complete story. …
IBM’s systems hardware business finished 2017 in a stronger position than it has seen in years, due in large part to the continued growth of the company’s stalwart System z mainframes and Power platform. …
NVM-Express is the latest hot thing in storage, with server and storage array vendors big and small making a mad dash to bring the protocol into their products and get an advantage in what promises to be a fast-growing market. …
Qualcomm launched its Centriq server system-on-chip (SoC) a few weeks ago. …
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