PowerMax decline drives Dell storage revenue downwards
Although Dell Technologies announced a more than healthy 15 per cent rise year-on-year in its second fiscal quarter revenues, storage let the side down with a one per cent...
StorPool update boasts tighter cloud platform integration
Software-defined storage firm StorPool Storage has released version 19.3 of its scale-out block storage platform, adding management features to its GUI and a range of updates including broader compatibility...
Inspur goes world record SPC-1 benchmarking in the Optanical garden
A clustered 16-controller Inspur storage array system using Optane and NVMe SSDs has set an SPC-1 performance world record, overtaking Huawei.
The Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark tests the performance...
Lenovo claims global number-2 position in mainstream storage
Server and OC manufacturer Lenovo says it has secured the second-place ranking in worldwide mainstream storage supply. Has it really?
The claim was made during the company’s first fiscal 2022...
Etoro takes the Silk road to Azure
Silk’s accelerated storage IO in the public cloud can make lifting and shifting non-cloud-native databases and other workloads to the cloud straightforward, and have them operate much faster and...
Irish university buys StorONE array from recycled hardware supplier
Who knew you can build a storage array using recycled hardware? Apparently the University of Limerick has bought one from Wisetek with previously-used hardware and StorONE software.
Cork-based Wisetek built...
Kubernetes storage: SmartX’s IOMesh beats Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS
China-based SmartX has released a preview of its Kubernetes storage software IOMesh, and it outperforms Pure’s Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS on MySQL transactions and latency.
The claims are backed up...
Lenovo unveils new NetApp entry-level all-flash arrays
Lenovo has announced two entry-level all-flash arrays, one with NVMe drives and the other SAS, with a sub-$15,000 starting price.
Update: 6 Aug 20321. Justification for Lenovo first to market...
Coldago survey: users love cloud, cloud-native and flash arrays; secondary storage surprises
An end-user survey by research firm Coldago finds users highly positive about the public cloud, cloud-native development, and all-flash arrays, with some surprising vendor rankings concerning Infinidat, VAST Data...
SAN attack: AWS speeds up slow SSD block volume instances
Less than a year after introducing its first SSD-based performance block storage, AWS has finally caught up with modern SSD and SAN speed with its latest io2 Block Express...
Storage VAR sentiment tracker: VMware mojo lost, Commvault mojo gained?
A June survey of storage VARs’ views of the market shows growing demand with core infrastructure refreshes as the US economy re-opens and ransomware becomes a top-of-mind concern.
William Blair...
StorONE and Storbyte get NASA blessing for combined fast, long-life flash array
NASA is repatriating an HPC application system back on-premises to a StorONE S1 software platform, running atop a three million IOPS-plus Storbyte flash array with a ten-year write life...