Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...
Infinidat boosts performance, adds SMB support
Infinidat, the enterprise high-end array provider, has added SMB filer support, boosted IOPS and throughput, and strengthened its snapshot capabilities.
New features in InfiniBox 4.0.40 software include:
Support for SMB protocols v2.1...
Huawei bakes NVMe into OceanStor Dorado all-flash arrays
Huawei has launched the all-flash entry-level OceanStor Dorado3000 v3 array and added NVMe support to mid-range and high end all-flash Dorado storage.
The OceanStor Dorado is a classic SAN array. From...
Infinidat girds up loins for NVMe fabrics and storage-class memory
Infinidat's performance-boosting software upgrade, announced this week, will help the company add NVMe fabric links and storage-class memory to iInfinibox arrays.
InfiniBox 4.0.40 adds SMB support, better protection with snapshot...
Storage industry darlings Nutanix and Pure score revenue own goals
Nutanix and Pure Storage both identified revenue target issues in their most recent fiscal quarters; Pure with actual revenues and Nutanix with forecast revenues - and they have...
Mid-range confusion crimps Dell EMC storage revenues
Dell EMC this week posted its fourth consecutive quarter of storage growth and anticipates a revenue boost from the upcoming unified mid-range array.
Revenues for Dell Technologies in the fourth...
What will Dell EMC’s unified mid-range storage box look like? Let’s not find out…
Blocks & Files tested out some ideas about Dell EMC’s upcoming unified mid-range storage box, the PowerTo-be-decided, with Dell EMC and got precisely nowhere.
I thought I would be clever...
Vexata hives off software for partners to build 20 million IOPS arrays
Targeting cloud providers, Vexata has separated its software and hardware, to offering file and block access software on commodity servers.
in October 2017 Vexata introduced a 7 million IOPS...
Lightbits unveils NVMe/TCP product. Toshiba adds NVMe/TCP support to Kumoscale
You wait for a bus for ages and then two come along at once. So it is with NVMe/TCP - Toshiba and Lightbits Labs have introduced NVMe/TCP product on...
Dell EMC customers can build their own Converged Infrastructure systems
From today customers can build their own Converged Infrastructure systems by using Dell EMC Ready Stack blueprints. Previously this option was available for channel partners only.
Dell EMC has...
Dell EMC refreshes Unity arrays with splash of Skylake and NVMe
Dell next month will refresh the Unity mid-range storage array line with Skylake Xeon processors and NVMe – the latter as expected after I revealed the firm's plan in...
Fujitsu Eternus array shatters SPC-1 storage benchmark
Fujitsu has set the new top score for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark, scoring 10,001,522 IOPS with its ETERNUS DX8900 S4 array.
In SPC-1 benchmark terms this is the...