Amber Huffman and Peter Onufryk never could have imagined the little 100-page specification they worked on a decade ago would become a wide standard from phones and tables up to the largest datacenters in the world. …
There is plenty of potential to upset traditional storage via leveraging on-board NVMe devices and while the competition is thick and fierce, there are a few companies that are already standing out in 2021. …
The external storage market – like most sectors of the IT industry – took a beating in the first quarter, thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus pandemic. …
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. …
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. …
All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. …
The old adage in the modern datacenter is that compute is free, but data movement is very, very expensive. …
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