NetApp’s flash upgrade for its AFF and FAS arrays
NetApp has bumped up performance for FAS and AFF arrays at the entry level, with end-to-end NVMe flash drive support, to "leave rivals in the dust".
The refresh provides extra...
STaaSification; Dell APEX project includes Storage-as-a-Service
Dell is going to offer on-premises managed file and block storage services next year. Customers will rent storage instead of buying it.
This is part of its Project APEX, announced...
DDN hauls NVMe storage chassis to Tintri products
DDN has injected its all-NVMe flash storage chassis into its Tintri product line to start the cost-cutting process of unifying product hardware across its two divisions.
Tintri was acquired by...
Lose the 36-year-old: Quobyte pushes folks to ditch NFS for its ‘secure’ scale-out, self-service,...
Quobyte has dropped the veil on v3.0 of its Data Centre File System (DCFS) software, saying customers need scale-out, self-service, automated, secure, run anywhere, multi-tenant file services, and NFS...
Your occasional storage digest: Backblaze anti-ransomware, Fibre Channel speed clarifications, OpenDrives NAS clusters, K8s...
This week has been busy with storage news, like last week and the one before that. Ransomware protection has become a top-of-mind CIO concern and - among others -...
KumoScale beats Ceph hands down on block performance
Kioxia today published test results showing its KumoScale storage software runs block access on an all-flash array up to 60 times faster than Ceph, thanks to NVMe/TCP transport.
Update:...
Huawei has fastest storage array in the world. SPC-1 says so
Huawei has smashed the SPC-1 benchmark, with an all-NVMe flash OceanStor array that is double the performance pg previous title holder Fujitsu at 40 per cent higher cost.
SPC-1 tests...
Hardware fault shuts Tokyo Stock Exchange for the day
A data storage hardware failure was to blame for day-long Tokyo Stock Exchange outage on Thursday October 1.
In a press conference, TSE executives "squarely accepted responsibility for the incident,...
PowerMax maxes more with vVOL replication, better DR and cloud tiering
Dell EMC today updated the high-end PowerMax storage array to run more VMware Virtual Volumes (vVOLs), migrate data to the public cloud and improve disaster recovery capability.
With today's update,...
Western Digital speeds up shingled disk write performance
Western Digital has found a software partner called Kalista.IO that makes host-managed shingled magnetic recording drives appear like normal drives to applications.
Shingled Magnetic Recording crams more read tracks...
Actifio pushes cloud DR that accelerates slow object storage to near SSD speed
ESG has validated Actifio’s claim it can provide public cloud disaster recovery at near SSD speed using slower, low-cost object storage in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
A yet-to-be-published “Microsoft...
Back to basics: HPE adds SSDs, faster controllers, tiering and Cloud Volumes backup juice...
HPE’s basic Modular Smart Array storage line now goes a bit faster, with tiering and backup to the cloud, after the tech giant's Gen 6 update announcement.
The dual-controller MSA...