Nantero raises $21 million and that’s good
Nantero raised a $21 million round from investors. The company is one of StorageMojo's favorite NVRAM vendors, because carbon nanotubes. I also like the fact that their process can use existing fabs, even fully depreciated ones, to build high-density vertical NVRAM....
Cloud market heats up
In 2014 Gartner estimated that Amazon Web Services had 5x the utilized compute capacity of the rest of the cloud providers. There's a couple of qualifiers there - utilized, compute - but as a rough guess, it looked like AWS had around an 80% market share. But no more....
When is a feature a bug?
Ten years ago in Enterprise IT: the elephant's graveyard I wrote about the upmarket trap: Engineering and marketing find it easy to justify fun new technology since a 10% goodness increase on a $500,000 machine is worth $50,000, while on a $1,000 machine it is worth...
Frisky Gen-Z’s to battle boomer Intel
The internalization of storage is spawning another war - this time in memory interconnects. From Anandtech: This week sees the launch of the Gen-Z Consortium, featuring names such as ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Xilinx, with the purpose of...
ClearSky: object storage at enterprise block speed
Can object storage ever be as fast as block storage? It turns out the answer is yes. And we already know how to do it. I was speaking to the CTO of ClearSky Data, Laz Vekiarides, about their block storage system for enterprise applications. They offer . . . a Global...
Everspin’s MRAM IPO
Everspin has filed for their IPO. They're looking to raise $40 million from the public market. They've been shipping product for over 10 years, so this is a real company, not a dream and a slide deck. Why MRAM? Everspin's Magnetic RAM has a number of advantages over...
Is 3D XPoint in trouble?
The Register's Chris Mellor and SemiAccurate's Charlie Demerjian are throwing shade on Intel's claims for 3D XPoint. While it's great fun to tweak the giants of tech - as I often do - I think they are likely wrong in their interpretation of the data backing their...
Nutanix IPO: the big score
Nutanix - NTNX - has started off with a bang: opening at $16 a share and quickly rising to almost $30. It's trading at $36 as I write. Now for the hard part Everyone is no doubt counting how much they've made on that spectacular beginning. But there's a six month...
Dell vets: buff up your resumes this weekend
Now that Dell has completed the EMC acquisition, you are in for a rude awakening. While Dell may own EMC, EMC owns you. Richard Egan, one of the founders os EMC, fostered an exceptionally aggressive sales culture. The company liked to hire guys from blue collar...
Artisanal science doesn’t scale
Big data will overwhelm artisanal science. That's what I conclude from a recent paper that lays out the stark statistics: Science is a growing system, exhibiting 4% annual growth in publications and 1.8% annual growth in the number of references per publication....
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