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Tech giants form Modern Computing Alliance to do...something
The world's tech giants have banded together to form a new consortium aimed at addressing the biggest IT challenges facing companies today across the full technology stack from silicon to cloud.
In addition to Google, Dell and Intel, the founding members of the Modern Computing Alliance also include Box, Citrix, Imprivata, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMWare and Zoom.
The Modern Computing Alliance plans to initially focus on performance, security and identity, remote work, productivity and collaboration and health care. Together the alliance's members will pool their knowledge and resources to work towards solving shared problems regarding how companies work in the cloud and the tools they use to do so.
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According to the Modern Computing Alliance's new website, its common mission is to drive “silicon-to-cloud” innovation. As part of this mission, its members will develop new standards and interoperable technologies that can be used by any organization that uses one of its partners' platforms or products.
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In a new blog post introducing the Modern Computing Alliance, VP of Chrome OS at Google John Solomon explained how he defines modern computing, saying:
“'Modern computing' can mean many different things to different people. For me, it’s creating an integrated, secure experience on any device, from anywhere. A means of achieving this cross-device app experience is by employing enterprise progressive web applications (PWAs) that are faster and more responsive than native legacy solutions. In addition, developers only have to build once and can distribute without a gateway, so they can get their products to market sooner and more efficiently.”
According to The Verge, Solomon explained to the news outlet that discussions about creating the alliance first began at CES last year in Las Vegas. However, the group decided during the early stages of the pandemic that it needed to expand its scope and bring on even more partners such as Slack and Zoom who had witnessed first hand how the nature of corporate work is being transformed.
The Modern Computing Alliance is made up of some of today's largest tech giants but the group is also calling on IT professionals to join the Modern Computing IT Council so that their voices can be heard. Interested IT professionals can sign up here to join the council and we'll likely hear more about the new alliance once its future roadmap is fully developed.
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Via The Verge
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Read MoreAhead of CES 2022, Samsung has teased some ridiculously fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs, snappily named PM1743 SSD, that can apparently hit 13,000 MB/s read speeds without breaking a sweat.
The advances come from Samsung combining the lightning fast PCIe 5.0 protocol with its own sixth-generation V-NAND. The only downside that we can see is that these SSDs are specifically designed for enterprise servers, not your gaming rig.
"For over a decade, Samsung has been delivering SATA, SAS and PCIe-based SSDs that have been recognized for outstanding performance and reliability by leading enterprise server customers ...,” said Yong Ho Song, who leads Samsung's memory division. "The introduction of our PCIe 5.0 SSD, along with PCIe 6.0-based product developments that are underway, will further solidify our technological leadership in the enterprise server market.”
So, what can these SSDs do?
An awful lot as it turns out.
According to Samsung, you're looking at read speeds of 13,000 MB/s (as we said); 2,500K input/output operations per second, which is roughly double PCIe 4.0; and up to 32 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), also double PCIe 4.0.
Samsung has had to build a bunch of bespoke components to handle the sheer fury of these SSDs, much of it in partnership with Intel, another leader in the memory market.
"Intel has been working with Samsung to test Samsung’s newest PCIe NVMe SSD, the PM1743. Together, we have jointly resolved complicated technical issues encountered with PCIe 5.0 during this initial evaluation period. The performance potential of Gen5 is truly impressive,” said Intel executive Jim Pappas. "In the near future, we strongly believe that PCIe Gen5 systems with high-speed NVMe SSDs will have the ability to transform applications such as AI/ML and high-performance databases."
Looking forward
And the craziest part is that PCIe 6.0, which promises to blow PCIe 5.0 out of the water, is right around the corner. According to Al Yanes, president and chairperson of the standards organization PCI-Special Interest Group (SIG), PCIe 6.0 could come as soon as early 2022.
Of course, just being available doesn't mean it will surpass PCIe 5.0 anytime soon; Samsung and Intel aren't going to release a brand new SSD only for it to immediately be outdated. But it does mean that within the next few years, 13,000 MB/s read speeds will seem tame.
Samsung says the PM1743 SSD will be available in capacities from 1.92TB to 15.36TB and mass production will begin in Q1 2022.
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Via Engadget
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