Mid-range clustered Alletra 6000 supports more SAP HANA nodes than top-end 9000
HPE's Alletra array performance results have been revealed, with the top supported SAP HANA Node count rising from 64 for the clustered all-flash Nimble to 216 for the mid-range...
Fancy a decongestant? Cisco intros ‘slow drain’ tech for 64gig Fibre Channel
Cisco has launched its 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel offering with a slow drain technology that should prevent overwhelmed devices congesting the network.
Fibre Channel (FC) is a lossless storage networking fabric...
Alletra: First details on what’s in HPE’s new arrays
Analysis: Datasheet details have emerged about HPE's brand spanking new Alletra arrays, casting some light on the boxes and their contents but not shining it into every corner.
There are...
Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX
Dell today unveiled its APEX Data Storage Services at its virtual Dell Technologies World event, claiming to offer a consistent service across edge locations, private and public clouds, with...
Your occasional storage digest with StorONE, Qumulo, WekaIO and Egnyte
Today’s digest features a lot of storage suppliers adding public cloud presence and support to their offerings, such as Actian, DataStax, Qumulo, Rubrik, ScaleOut Software, StorONE, and WekaIO. Read...
IO, IO, off to Microsoft’s cloud we go: Excelero hits Azure
Excelero has made its scale-out NVMe-oF array software available on Azure.
NVMe-oF (NVMe-over-Fabric) extends a server’s PCIe/NVMe protocol across network links. This means a server application can access remote flash...
StorFaster? Quantum converges StorNext metadata controllers onto faster storage server
Quantum has introduced StorNext H4000, a more powerful hybrid flash/disk appliance that does away with the need for separate metadata controllers and client access nodes by using faster controllers.
StorNext...
OK, SANshine, how do you position Nebulon against external arrays, HCI, SmartNIC and DPU...
Analysis: Would-be SAN array and HCI rival Nebulon’s SPU (Storage Processing Unit) is a fresh way of delivering shared storage and other services by using what looks like hyper-converged...
Why croit thinks Ceph is ‘unbeatable general storage solution’ – and why it will...
Ceph software is a singular data storage technology, as it is open source and offers block, file and object access to data. But it has a reputation of being...
IBM quarterly storage HW revenues continue declining
IBM's quarterly storage hardware revenues have continued their long term decline. In the first 2021 quarter earnings report the company disclosed that “Power and Storage Systems declined,” with Power...
Dell PowerStore gets more with hot entry-level box
Dell Technologies has announced a PowerStore 500 entry-level system and updated PowerStore software with performance enhancements.
Jeff Boudreau, GM of Dell Technologies infrastructure solutions group, proclaimed today: “PowerStore is the...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...