Infinidat: Our speedy storage arrays do not run any faster with Optane
Infinidat has no immediate plans to add Optane support because its memory-caching technology is already faster than Intel’s 3D XPoint.
In a press briefing today, Yair Cohen, VP of product...
Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate
Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming, web conferencing...
SoftIron, the Ceph storage startup, raises $34m
SoftIron, the UK developer of Ceph storage hardware and software, has raised $34m in venture capital.
Some of the cash will be used to grow sales, product marketing, and support...
Inspur leapfrogs Huawei to take second place in SPC-1 benchmark
Inspur has claimed the second spot in the SPC-1 benchmark, behind Fujitsu. Prior to the latest results, the Chinese systems vendor's best SPC1 performance was 15th place.
Inspur used an...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Rackspace, AWS, Nvidia Covid-19 initiatives and more
The Covid-19 pandemic dominates this week's storage roundup with Rackspace, Nvidia and AWS seeking to support researchers into the coronavirus.
And in other news, Acronis is using Western Digital...
VMware vSphere 7 adds NVMe-oF support to speed storage access
Earlier this week we covered the main details of VMware's blockbuster vSphere 7 launch. In this article we zoom in on VMware’s vSphere 7 support for NVMe over Fabrics...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Infinidat, Retrospect, Toshiba and more
In this week's data storage roundup, Infinidat has put things in place to support vSphere disaster recovery failover across metro distances while Retrospect make it simple and easy to...
StorONE buys Storage Switzerland
StorONE, an all-flash array startup, has bought in a ready-made marketing department with the acquisition of Storage Switzerland.
George Crump, founder of the five-strong analyst firm - which...
Nexsan turbo-charges the BEAST array with QLC flash
Nexsan has re-engineered the BEAST entry-level block storage array to use QLC flash and 16TB disk drives, providing lower latency, more bandwidth and higher capacity.
The BEAST's latest incarnation comes...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Supermicro going to the poles, Kioxia flash provisioning and...
5G and edge computing are opening up fresh horizons for servers and storage to provide real time processing with machine learning attributes. Supermicro is on the case, while...
So long, farewell, Storwize. IBM melds storage array line under FlashSystems brand
IBM has launched faster FlashSystem arrays, in a move that also sees it simplify its block access storage array line-up.
The company now goes to the non-mainframe market with a...
Your occasional storage digest, (mostly) featuring Couchbase DBaaS service
Slim pickings for this week's enterprise storage round-up. But let's kick off Couchbase making its NoSQL database available as a cloud-based service.
DBaaS for Couchbase surfers
NoSQL database supplier Couchbase...