Chip Makers Collaborate on NVMe Fabrics
A trio of chip makers will collaborate on a reference architecture for speeding deployment of NVM Express over storage network fabrics. Cavium Technologies, which specializes in processors for cloud ...Full Article
When Buying HCI, Avoid These 3 Mistakes
The interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances is widespread, replacing, and in some sense displacing, the hype around all-flash arrays as “the” hot topic in previous years. Organizations are ...Full Article
Docker Founder Joins Blockchain Storage Startup
Serial entrepreneur Ben Golub, co-founder and former CEO of application container pioneer Docker Inc., has landed at a blockchain-based cloud startup called Storj Labs. The Atlanta-based company launched in ...Full Article
Why NVMe is the Storage Protocol of Choice for High Performance Workloads
NVMe has quickly become the storage medium of choice for high performance applications. Its streamlined protocol, optimized for transactions to flash memory, is very lightweight relative to the legacy ...Full Article
NSF Partners With VMware on IoT, Launches Computing Efforts
The National Science Foundation has launched a partnership with VMware to advance edge computing infrastructure required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Separately this week, NSF unveiled a $30 ...Full Article
Cloudian Partnership Expands Its Object Storage Platform
Seeking to capitalize on the growth of object storage and the reluctance of companies to delete data that could one day prove useful, cloud object storage specialist Cloudian has ...Full Article
Start-up Aims AI at Automated Tuning of Complex Systems
There was a simpler time when system tuning consisted of adjusting a relatively few number of knobs, a manual and not overly demanding task that brought out the best ...Full Article
Fools for Love: ML Defends against Dating Site Fraudsters
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate and, for the fortunate among us, enjoy that most intoxicating of human emotions: romantic love. But amid the red roses and candlelit ...Full Article
Intel Debuts Xeon SoC for Edge Applications, Addresses ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ Fears
Intel has addressed the drive for increasingly powerful processing at the edge of systems and networks with the launch this week of the Xeon D-2100 SoC, designed to support ...Full Article
Chip Market Soared on Memory Demand
Global spending on semiconductors jumped a hefty 17 percent in 2017, driven by demand and corresponding price hikes for memory in datacenters and early industrial deployments of the Internet ...Full Article