Dell earnings show it pulling away from the competition
Dell Technologies pulled in £23.4bn revenues in the second fiscal 2020 quarter, up 2 per cent, and eked a massive $4.5bn profit, thanks to an income tax provision.
In a...
NetApp says so long to SAS and iSCSI with streamlined EF600 all-flash array
NetApp has announced a stripped down, hot-box, EF series all-flash array with double the performance of its predecessor.
Suggested EF600 workloads include Oracle databases, SQL Server, real-time analytics, and hig...
Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMworld
Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let's look at some of the products...
A bit of a storage rounder-upper
August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days.
AI-powered personal NAS
Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...
DDN adds Nexenta file services to Tintri arrays
DDN is giving Tintri file array users access to file services through a Nexenta virtual storage appliance.
The company bought Tintri in 2018 and Nexenta this year, and this...
SK hynix supercharges memory bandwidth
SK hynix has developed the world’s fastest high bandwidth memory, intended for applications such as supercomputing, machine learning, 5G systems and for other latency-sensitive processing,
All servers use memory...
Nvidia GPUs gain direct access to NVMe storage
Nvidia has crafted a direct link between its GPUs and NVMe-connected storage to speed data transfer and processing.
Until now a GPU was fed with data by the host server’s...
Excelero adds scale-up NVEdge to scale-out NVMESH
Excelero, the NVMe-over-Fabrics flash array software startup, has announced a scale-up NVEdge product to complement its scale-out NVMESH offering.
NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) extends the PCIe/NVMe protocol across network links so a...
NetApp warns of big revenue miss as US-China woes bite
NetApp expects a big revenue miss in the first 2020 quarter due to large global accounts spending less in response to the US-China trade dispute and other macroeconomic uncertainties.
The...
StorCentric CEO: ‘My mission is to build the next world-class storage company’
Newcomer StorCentric has acquired four storage companies and aspires to become a world-class storage company. What's the score?
The company emerged in August last year through the acquisition of the...
Here’s a way to optimise your SSDs for different workloads
Flash storage software startup Burlywood has introduced an analysis service for SSDs that profiles their production workload in order to tune operations.
Customer workloads differ by read/write mix, IO sizes,...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....