Baffled by block storage choices? Read this!
A new report from research outfit Gigaom aims to help enterprises focus on the key factors in order to make the right decision when investing in storage systems.
Prospective buyers...
Dell Q1 revenues up but servers and storage sales are down
Dell posted $21.9bn revenues for the first fiscal 2020 quarter up three per cent on last year, and net income $329m (-$538m). However storage revenues fell a little and...
DDN adds software-defined data services
Interview DDN bought software-defined storage player Nexenta this month. We conducted a short email interview with Kurt Kuckein, DDN senior director, to find out more.
Blocks & Files: Will Tarkan...
Formulus Black flogs SQL Server to performance frenzy
Formulus Black, the company formerly known as Symbolic IO, said its Forsa software pushes Microsoft SQL Server to run 129 times faster than standard operating systems.
In a recent benchmark...
Datera is ‘power lifting at the gym with HPE as main spotter’
Interview As Pure was to Flash and Nutanix to HCI, Datera wants to be the main independent enterprise software-defined block-plus storage player.
Datera CEO Guy Churchward revealed the company's...
Datera CEO recovering after heart attack
Datera CEO Guy Churchward has suffered two heart attacks and is recovering after an operation to place three stents in his arteries.
The events are described in Tweets and a...
Mellanox spread bets on high performance storage startups
Mellanox has pumped an undisclosed sum of money into Excelero, its second announced investment in a storage startup in a week. The amount is likely to be small, as...
Infinidat: Storage costs soar in the multi-petabyte era. Let’s fix this
Larger enterprises are storing multiple petabytes of data already and many are heading towards storing exabytes. This presents significant economic and management challenges, according to Infinidat, the high-end storage...
NetApp adds end-to-end NVMe to mid-range storage array
A busy day yesterday for NetApp, which launched a mid-range all-flash array with end-to-end NVMe access, pushed out an ONTAP software update and introduced three support services.
The AFF (All-Flash...
No Dell, our storage array is faster than yours – Infinidat
Infinidat today boasted it makes the fastest SAN array with the lowest latency and can prove it - albeit with its own test results.
The high-end array vendor used the...
Your Bumper Fun book of storage, featuring DDN, Exagrid, Kaseya, Mimecast, Softiron and...
Your occasional storage digest today features DDN, Exagrid, Faction, Kaseya, Mimecast and Softiron and more.
DDN buys Nexenta
HPC storage supplier DDN has bought software-defined storage business Nexenta, a 14-year-old...
Infinidat arrays go faster, play nice in hybrid clouds
Infinidat, the high-end array maker, today launched subscription programs, software with enhanced performance, extended array connectivity, and cloud-delivered array monitoring and analysis.
The company also signalled its intention to...