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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HPE doubles up on HCI and hugs the hybrid cloud
HPE Discover HPE yesterday unveiled two hyperconverged systems, a composability extension and much hybrid cloud activity at at its Discover jamboree in Las Vegas. Let's take a quick...
Dell EMC updates VxBlock 1000, hints at NVMe-oF
Dell has updated its VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure system, with the emphasis on pushing end-to-end NVMe over fabrics (NVMe-oF) infrastructure.
Dell EMC introduced the VxBlock 1000 in February 2018, ...
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...
Liqid goes fabric-happy for composability
Liqid, the composable systems maker, is extending connectivity fabric support to enable customers to dynamically compose servers from pools of CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, and NICs regardless of underlying...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Azure, Pure Storage, Datrium, Hitachi Vantura and more
Today has been a blockbuster blizzard for enterprise storage news. Blocks & Files will guide you through the day's events with this handy round-up. Let's start with Microsoft.
Azure moves...
Dell and Cisco renew VxBlock wedding vows
Dell Technologies and Cisco have signed a multi-year extension to their VBlock partnership.
This is the converged infrastructure combo that integrates Dell EMC storage with Cisco UCS servers and Nexus...