It’s been over a month since Excelero have added cloud support through Microsoft Azure to their NVMesh software-defined storage solution. Excelero’s NVMesh consists of distributed block storage known for its focus towards I/O intensive workloads such as data analytics, high performance computing and GPU computing for AI / ML / DL. The Excelero NVMesh architecture According to Excelero, beta users of the Azure-based implementations of NVMesh saw “up to 25x more IO/s and up to 10x more bandwi...

If you haven’t heard about Datadobi before, they were founded in 2010 by former EMC Centerra engineers and are based out of Belgium. Datadobi focuses on unstructured data management software with two solutions: DobiMigrate (data migration) and DobiProtect (data protection). I reckon those two topics may not be the sexiest things to talk about on planet Earth. The thought of data migration might give you the shivers because of having had to do that in your past professional life, and you migh...

On June 18th 2020, Intel announced the next generation of 3D XPoint memory under its Optane brand. Named Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series, those modules provide up to 4.5 TB of memory per socket (more on this below). 2nd-Gen Optane consists of four layers of 3D XPoint memory, whereas 1st-Gen had only two layers. Optane Persistent Memory 200 series are available in modules of 128, 256 and 512 GB. Up to six modules are supported per single CPU socket, providing up to 3 TB of PMEM per socke...

One of the key takeaways from HPE Discover was undoubtedly HPE GreenLake, perhaps one of HPE’s most misunderstood products in the past. We took part in several presentations related to GreenLake, which helped us understand better the product as well as HPE’s strategy. Strategic Vision: HPE-as-a-Service GreenLake is the embodiment of HPE’s shift towards a service-based consumption model across all of its business lines. As outlined by CEO Antonio Neri during the keynote, HPE strategy is to m...

We recently had the opportunity to catch up with Boyan Ivanov, CEO of StorPool Storage and talk about business growth, new product features and the pandemic impact. Double Digit Revenue Growth StorPool announced a 40% YoY revenue growth in H1-2020. According to Boyan, most of their customers seem to be growing. Reasons seen by him are increased demand for infrastructure services, but also natural data growth, and finally customer satisfaction, which has led to additional spend (on top of or...