Ceph backers apply Foundation in storage makeover
Ceph, the open source storage software platform, has gotten its very own foundation. Just like Linux.
The Ceph Foundation is organised as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. It...
Lenovo sets SPC-1 price performance record
Lenovo has set a price performance record of $91.76 per 1,000 SPC-1 IOPS (KIOPS), breaking its previous record of $93.29 by 1.6 per cent.
The SPC-1 benchmark is a synthetic...
To INFINIBOX and beyond! Infinidat preps NVMe-oF upgrade for high-end array
Infinidat looks set to add ultra-fast NVMe-over-Fabrics access to its INFINIBOX arrays.
The company has not gone public yet but a source tells me that it demonstrated NVMe-over-Fabrics access to...
Names, Faces and Storage Places
Just three moves for you in this edition of Storage People moves.
Let's begin with Guy Churchward, who has become executive chairman at Datera, just two months after joining the startup’s...
Lenovo gets edgy with Scale for hyperconverged retail love-in
Lenovo has teamed up with Scale Computing to jointly sell their edge computing wares to retailers.
And they have already bagged a marquee customer. This is the Dutch multinational supermarket...
Show me the money! SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark is not fit for purpose
Opinion: The SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark shows which system vendor are fastest at a set of file system performance tasks, but there are no price/performance numbers. This means you...
Your Occasional Storage Digest, featuring Cohesity, IBM, Maxta, Nutanix, Proscia, Rubrik, SwiftStack, Zadara
Here's a digest of recent storage news to help you keep up with what's going on.
Cohesity
Cohesity is parting with some of the money raised in its recent funding round...
Secret IBM script could have prevented 11 hour US tax day outage
The April 2018 US tax day outage was due to a faulty IBM disk array and could have been avoided with a secret IBM script.
On-line tax filing was held...
Quantum teams up with Excelero for StorNext speed bump
Quantum is near-doubling StorNext speed by using Excelero’s NVMESH to provide faster data access than it can deliver on its own.
StorNext is a scale out multi-tiered file data management...
Dell EMC spruces up storage array line for SMBs
Dell EMC’s new PowerVault ME4 Series are for small and medium businesses: installable in 15 minutes, configurable in 15 more, and usable as either SAN array or direct-attached PowerEdge...
IDC storage tracker whacker: external storage holding steady vs server SAN
Server SANs are not eating into the external SAN market, judging by IDC storage tracker numbers.
It's been predicted that server SANs, which aggregate local storage in a cluster of...
Cock of the X86 systems walk, Dell is killing it
Dell has cemented its position as the world's biggest IT hardware vendor, chalking up significant gains in market share for Q2 and growing revenues 18 per cent on the year...