Composable infrastructure startup DriveScale and its team have been absorbed into Twitter. Nick Tornow, a platform lead at Twitter, tweeted: “DriveScale’s extremely experienced team will bring deep knowledge of storage protocols, technologies, and products to help us develop a persistent block-level storage product in our data centres to accelerate application development across the company.” Terms […]| Blocks and Files
Liqid, the composable infrastructure vendor, has won a $20.6m deal with the US Army Corps of Engineers – bagging its third supercomputer contract in a month. In August, Liqid scooped up two DoD contracts, totalling nearly $32m for two composable systems, with a combined 15 petaflops, that will run physics-based, AI, and ML applications for […]| Blocks and Files
Dell is adding GPUs, FPGAs and NVMe storage to the MX7000 composable system via a deal with Liqid. This makes the MX7000 systems better suited for data-intensive applications such as AI, machine learning and low-latency analytics. Dell indirectly announced the hookup with Liqid, a software-defined composable infrastructure vendor, via a reference architecture document published on […]| Blocks and Files
At the SC19 event Composable systems startup Liqid announced it can compose servers with Western Digital’s OpenFlex storage both within and across racks in a data centre, thanks to NVMe over Fabrics. Liqid says users can manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate data centre devices on-demand as workflows […]| Blocks and Files
Fungible, the data processing unit (DPU) unit chip startup, has bought the assets of a data centre composability business called Cloudistics for an undisclosed sum. The company said the “Cloudistics team [has] core competencies in the software needed to compose disaggregated data centre resources.” Pradeep Sindhu, CEO of Fungible, said in a statement: “We are […]| Blocks and Files