MemVerge Memory Machine Released

Today, MemVerge announced the general availability of their "Memory Machine" software. Like most MemVerge software, their "Memory Machine" software is intended to work with Intel Optane persistent memory to provide a software-defined memory pool. MemVerge was founded in August 2017, shortly after Intel released its Optane SSDs. MemVerge's primary product used to be Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) software, but it seems to have been replaced by Memory Machine, which has most of the same features. MemVerge also provides distributed memory objects (DMO) technology to accelerate data-intensive workloads such as AI, machine learning (ML), and analytics. (more…)
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Western Digital Announces Purple Storage Line Additions

Today, Western Digital (WD) announced additions to its family of WD Purple storage solutions. The new additions consist of an 18TB HDD and a 1TB microSD, both due out later this year. The gold line got 18TB HDDs a few months ago as well. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since then, it has become a household name, providing digital storage devices for everything from home use to the data center. (more…)
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