Hello from the other side. Mangstor completes EXTEN reboot
Mangstor, a pioneer in NVMe-over-Fabrics array technology which crashed and nearly burned, has escaped the undead. The company, now known as EXTEN Technologies, has launched HyperDynamic, a NVMe-oF target...
What’s up with HCI: The divergence of convergence
The world of hyperconverged (HCI) and converged infrastructure has become utterly confusing with marketing droids causing hyperactive uncontrolled growth of marketing terminology.
For instance: HCI, Disaggregated HCI, Distributed...
Read this! The composable infrastructure evaluation guide
The Evaluator Group has published an evaluation guide to composable infrastructure and its suppliers.
The guide defines composable infrastructure as a "comprehensive, rack-scale compute environment that uses software-defined networking...
DriveScale gives Toshiba SSDs fungible seal of approval
Toshiba’s CD5 and CM5 NVMe data centre SSDs are certified for use with DriveScale composable infrastructure.
This infrastructure composes servers on demand from pools of available driveless servers and storage...
Torrid end to torrid year for Western Digital
It's been a hard year for Western Digital but things look like getting better.
Western Digital’s fourth fiscal 2019 quarter saw depressed revenues and a loss compared to a year...
Western Digital upgrades NVMe SSDs, recruits composable allies
Western Digital has refreshed its NVMe SSD, composability and storage server products.
The company has added 96-layer 3D NAND data centre drives, almost quadrupling maximum capacity compared to a prior...
Liqid unleashes the Honey Badger PCIe 4 SSD. It’s fast.Very fast
Liqid has added the LQD4500, its first PCIe 4.0 SSD to its composable systems line-up. This is possibly the world's fastest SSD. Internally, Liqid calls the thing...
Enterprise buying slowdown clips HPE storage wings
HPE storage revenues dipped five per cent Y/Y to $844m in its third 2019 quarter results, confirming NetApp’s enterprise buying slowdown signal as Trumponomics around China affect enterprise confidence....
Liqid adds memory extension tech to composable system
Liqid’s composable systems can now compose up to 16TB of Liqid Memory, enabling larger applications to reduce IO and execute much faster.
A composable system dynamically sets up a virtual...
Pensando bags big bucks to take on AWS Nitro
MPLS, the renowned Cisco spin-in quartet, are back in town with their latest startup, an edge computing company called Pensando Systems that seeks to out-do Amazon Nitro. Only this...
Porsche gains Synergy in drive to HPE GreenLake
Spot the odd ones out: Carrera, Cayman, Boxster, Macan, Cayenne, Synergy, GreenLake. Easy; Synergy and GreenLake aren’t Porsche cars - but they are being used by Porsche’s in-house IT...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring HPE, Swiftstack and more
HPE has updated its two composable systems offerings while Swiftstack has upped the scale and performance of its object storage software. There's host of other announcements to check out...