Store News Quotes – November 22nd – Blocks and Files

2021-11-25 06:21:00 By : Ms. Carrie Li

Datto management believes that it is currently the largest pure backup software provider in the MSP market, growing faster than competitors ConnectWise, Kaseya and N-able. (Thanks to Jason Ader of William Blair.) It believes that in the long run, the long-term trend of outsourcing IT through the approximately $130 billion managed service provider (MSP) channel is in a good position. Datto has more than 18,200 MSP customers (there are an estimated 125,000 MSP suppliers worldwide), which creates a lot of opportunities for deeper penetration. The management hopes to significantly expand its security capabilities over time to fulfill its established mission of protecting all digital assets for MSP/SMB customers.

Quest Software released SharePlex v0.1.2 GA that can replicate Oracle databases to MySQL and PostgreSQL in real time. This is useful when creating mobile or API-based applications backed by PostgreSQL or MySQL databases that require data from old Oracle systems. SharePlex for PostgreSQL and MySQL supports AWS (RDS and Aurora) and Azure (Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL). It also supports replication to Oracle data warehouse, SQL Server data warehouse, PostgreSQL data warehouse, Kafka, and then can provide data for other systems, as well as event centers, which can provide data for other systems in the Azure ecosystem.

The new version 3.4 of Raidix's Era software RAID provides improved automatic error correction (checksum or data inconsistency), file drive error monitoring, and support for multipath NVMe drives.

Semiconductor technology developer Rambus published a blog about CXL v2.0. It states: "The server architecture-which has remained basically unchanged for decades-is now taking a revolutionary step towards solving the yottabytes data generated by AI/ML applications. Specifically, the data center is changing from every server The model with dedicated processing and memory, as well as network equipment and accelerators is transformed into a decomposed "pool" paradigm that intelligently matches resources and workloads." CXL 2.0 supports memory pools that use persistent memory and host internal DRAM. 

"By migrating to the CXL 2.0 direct-connect architecture, data centers can realize the performance advantages of main memory expansion-as well as the efficiency and total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages of pooled memory."

According to Reuters, SK Hynix hopes to upgrade its DRAM manufacturing business in Wuxi, China by using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment to draw finer lines on wafers to produce denser chips. Suspect. Exporting EUV equipment to China may violate the U.S. State Department’s ban on the export of high-tech products to China.

The Taipei Times reported that China's Alibaba Group will lead a consortium to invest 50 billion yen ($7.8 billion) to acquire the bankrupt Tsinghua Unigroup, which produces semiconductor products. Several Chinese governments support the acquisition of Tsinghua Unigroup, which is seen as important to China's self-sufficiency in semiconductor products. For example, it owns Yangtze River Storage Technology Co., Ltd.

DigiTimes reported that Chinese NAND manufacturer YMTC has increased the yield of its 128-layer 3D NAND. By the first half of 2022, monthly output may reach 100,000 wafers. This may/will mean that Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Western Digital's sales of NAND chips in China have declined.