Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
External storage sales fall behind in bull market
IDC's Q3 2018 worldwide storage tracker shows the overall storage market is booming except for external, shared array / filer technology.
The total storage numbers reported are summarised in...
IBM OEMs Actifio to create virtual data pipelines
IBM is OEM’ing Actifio’s Virtual Data Pipeline technology to supply production data copies to downstream users for faster application development and analytics.
IBM has confirmed the agreement with us and...
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
Datera gets helpful halfway OEM hug from HPE
HPE this week added Datera, a software-defined and scale-out storage supplier, to its HPE Complete program.
Hang on, HPE already works with Hedvig, another software-defined and scale-out storage supplier....
WANdisco takes the replicant test to the multi-cloud
WANdisco this week made LiveData for MultiCloud available for public consumption.
The idea is simple, namely to store one replicated copy of data in multiple clouds so that you have an...
3D XPoint needs to be bigger and cheaper. But how will it get there?
Compared to NAND flash, Intel’s Optane DIMM product is low on capacity and high on price. Increasing its capacity should lower the cost/GB and so help address both issues....
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PAIGE, a well-funded US start up that uses AI to tackle...
Exploring the memory-flash gap through an Optane lens
Semiconductor consultant Mark Webb thinks XPoint will dominate the memory-flash performance gap and could be a $2.7bn business for Intel and Micron in 2023, with DIMM sales driving most...
NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design
Poorly-designed NVMe/TCP networks can get clogged with NVMe traffic and fail to deliver the low latency that NVMe/TCP is designed to deliver in the first place.
The SNIA has an...
Your occasional Storage Digest, featuring Asigra, Coraid, Fujitsu, BackBlaze, Toshiba and…
Asigra, Coraid, Gartner and Toshiba supply a clutch of storage news to start the week, with better backup pricing, block and mobile phone storage and a supplier-ranking look at...