Chipmaker Qualcomm is aiming to jump back into the server CPU market. The avenue is coming from last year’s acquisition of Nuvia. We covered this deal on the Rundown last January and mentioned that the company was founded by former Apple engineers that wanted to focus on bring ARM to the datacenter. At first the acquistion seemed to refocus Nuvia on mobile device CPUs but Qualcomm appears to be looking to the future and restarting development efforts on servers. Qualcomm has a big market for System-on-a-Chip solutions for mobile devices but with the market for ARM CPUs in the cloud becoming hotter, is it time for a new player to enter and try and upset the balance? This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
0:37 | Pliops Gets $100 Million
Pliops is plying their expertise in SSD acceleration into a new round of funding. The storage startup has raised a new $100 million round to bring their total funding to $215 million. Also coming along wiht this news is a realignment of the company to focus the US market and reduction in some overlapping staff. The new round comes after Pliops took $65 million last year to continue their XDP platform.
Read More: Key:value SSD controller Pliops gains $100 million funding
3:27 | Lloyd’s Avoids Insurance Wars
Insurance giant Lloyd’s of London has decided there are some things that can’t be insured. In this case a memo from the company has indicated that Lloyd’s will no longer be covering cyber attacks from nation states. As the largest underwriter of insurance companies in the world this effectively means their clients won’t be offering insurance for those things either. Lloyd’s says that incidents that stem from a cyber war, declared or otherwise, will not included. This would require the companties to include a robust capability to attribute attacks to ensure they aren’t coming from a location that is excluded.
Read More: Lloyd’s Market Bulletin
7:36 | MinIO and Intel Team Up
MinIO is teaming up with Intel this week to increase the performance of their object storage platform. Intel’s Disruptor Initiative is focused on taking modern architectures, such as the one from MinIO, and working with Intel to adapt them to AI and ML workloads. The goal is to reduce bottlenecks and increase performance across the board utilizing Intel innovations. MinIO has been becoming a bigger player in the cloud storage market as we’ve covered recently on the Rundown.
10:11 | Aruba SD-WAN Gains ICSA Certification
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, has a new certification in their cap. The EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN platform is the first to be certified under the ICSA Secure SD-WAN program. The program is designed to provide neutral third-party testing for SD-WAN solutions and will grow to include more offerings from other vendors in the future. EdgeConnect Enterprise is the former Silver Peak platform that Aruba acquired back in 2020.
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13:01 | Storpool Releases v20
Storpool announced the latest version of their solution this week. Version 20 inclused support for accessing NVMe over TCP without a client or host program needed. This means more performance compared to NVMe over Fabric offerings. Storpool also now runs on AWS and is looking to improve performance for online transaction processing and transactional databases that need significant performance gains. Stephen, you had the chance to talk to Storpool about this new release.
Read More: Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise is First to Attain ICSA Labs Secure SD-WAN Certification
16:33 | Qualcomm Taking a Nuvia Look at Server CPUs
Chipmaker Qualcomm is aiming to jump back into the server CPU market. The avenue is coming from last year’s acquisition of Nuvia. We covered this deal on the Rundown last January and mentioned that the company was founded by former Apple engineers that wanted to focus on bring ARM to the datacenter. At first the acquistion seemed to refocus Nuvia on mobile device CPUs but Qualcomm appears to be looking to the future and restarting development efforts on servers. Qualcomm has a big market for System-on-a-Chip solutions for mobile devices but with the market for ARM CPUs in the cloud becoming hotter, is it time for a new player to enter and try and upset the balance?
Read More: StorPool Storage Adds NVMe/TCP, StorPool on AWS, and NFS File Storage
25:30 | The Weeks Ahead
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