Lenovo gets edgy with Scale for hyperconverged retail love-in
Lenovo has teamed up with Scale Computing to jointly sell their edge computing wares to retailers.
And they have already bagged a marquee customer. This is the Dutch multinational supermarket...
Names, Faces and Storage Places
Just three moves for you in this edition of Storage People moves.
Let's begin with Guy Churchward, who has become executive chairman at Datera, just two months after joining the startup’s...
To INFINIBOX and beyond! Infinidat preps NVMe-oF upgrade for high-end array
Infinidat looks set to add ultra-fast NVMe-over-Fabrics access to its INFINIBOX arrays.
The company has not gone public yet but a source tells me that it demonstrated NVMe-over-Fabrics access to...
Lenovo sets SPC-1 price performance record
Lenovo has set a price performance record of $91.76 per 1,000 SPC-1 IOPS (KIOPS), breaking its previous record of $93.29 by 1.6 per cent.
The SPC-1 benchmark is a synthetic...
Ceph backers apply Foundation in storage makeover
Ceph, the open source storage software platform, has gotten its very own foundation. Just like Linux.
The Ceph Foundation is organised as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. It...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks
Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
HPE stuffs Optane into 3PAR arrays to speed Oracle workloads
HPE has announced Optane caching for its 3PAR arrays and this makes them chew through Oracle database workloads faster.
According to HPE, "92% of all 3PAR install base reads...
Chris Mellor’s Rough Guide to the Storage Planet
The storage industry can be bewildering, with so many hardware and software technologies and overlapping products. How to make sense of it all?
Let's think of computer storage as...
SoftIron, a proprietary ARM hardware company, loves open source Ceph
Interview SoftIron is developing and building its proprietary ARM-powered HyperDrive storage hardware while strongly promoting Ceph open source storage software.
It seems an unusual combination. SoftIron also thinks Ceph will fulfil...