Nebulon, which launched its hardware-assisted cloud-defined storage in June last year, has broadened its scope to become a smart infrastructure SaaS supplier providing a better hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offering. The startup’s first product was a Storage Processing Unit (SPU), an add-in, FH-FL PCIe card, with an 8-core, 3GHz ARM CPU plus encryption/dedupe offload engine. This […]| Blocks and Files
Nvidia says its next-generation BlueField SmartNIC device, launched today, will deliver the most powerful software-defined networking, storage and cybersecurity acceleration capabilities for data centres. Update: 13 April 2021. Updated Nvidia roadmap diagram added with revised SPECint numbers. Doubled Arm core count, doubled network speed and PCIe Gen 5 support will make Nvidia’s third generation BlueField […]| Blocks and Files
DPU developer Fungible has, according to industry sources, laid off a number of employees as it focuses on the mature storage market for its data processing unit technology. Update: Fungible comment added at end of the article on August 30, 2022. Startup Fungible developed its own DPU chip and composability software to help servers talk […]| Blocks and Files