NetApp appoints chief product officer who doesn’t look after all products
NetApp has appointed its first chief product officer, Harvinder (Harv) Bhela, who will look after most — but not all — of NetApp’s products.
Bhela starts in January 2022, and...
Ocient’s massively parallel relational database speed machine
A brief news note yesterday said startup Ocient (pronounced oh-see-ent) enabled SS8 Networks to harness petabytes of data in interactive time. Ocient is focussed on ingesting billions of rows per...
Pure takes the high road with throughput-optimised FlashArray models
Pure Storage has added Ice Lake Xeon grunt to two new high-end FlashArray models built with TLC (3bits/cell) NAND and the PCIe 4 bus, overall delivering up to 80...
Kioxia adds sophisticated admin tools and wider support to KumoScale
Kioxia has made its KumoScale box-of-flash admin easier and supports the latest version of OpenStack in its latest software release as it plans to build out its virtualised disaggregated...
Infinidat: we’re boosting our channel, even as others retreat
Infinidat, the memory-cached high-end array shipper, says it has been — and is — building up its channel partners and program while competitors are reducing their channel commitment.
It claims...
Street-beater NetApp’s fifth growth quarter in a row
NetApp had a knock-out second fiscal 2022 quarter, selling more flash arrays and object storage, and with a good pipeline for further sales. Its public cloud business is growing...
22dot6 adds extra cloudiness to its Valence software
All-singing, all-dancing TASS (Transcendent Abstracted Storage System) supplier 22dot6 has updated its Valence software — making it easier to set up and operate private, hybrid, and public cloud storage.
22dot6...
NexuStorage says blocks and files can come from object storage
NexuStorage’s Nexfs software serves block and file data from an object-backing store using sub-file chunking to reduce data movement and help data tiering, and claims great tier-one storage cost...
Dell has record quarter, but flattish storage lets the side down
Dell’s quarterly revenues rose 21 per cent year-on-year to a record $28.4 billion, but storage revenues were anaemic with a mere 0.9 per cent rise to $3.89 billion.
This was...
Fog busters! Data and storage category clarification
My mental data and storage classification landscape has been getting confused and briefings with suppliers made it obvious a refresh was needed.
Going back to the basic block-file-object data types...
Boom! DataCore arrives in Kubernetes storage space by buying MayaData
Block, file and object storage software supplier DataCore has bought MayaData and its Kubernetes storage business for an undisclosed sum. DataCore’s Caringo object storage software has notched up two...
DDN turbo-charges SFA arrays with massive bandwidth expansion
DDN has accelerated its SFA200 and SFA400 NVX arrays by up to 156 per cent by adding more and faster PCIe lanes and upgrading the controllers to Gen-3 Xeon...