Lenovo: Building better storage mousetraps
Lenovo says it has grabbed a slightly bigger slice of the storage market, and has some new products and services out – DM Series ONTAP-based storage software, a high-density...
Seagate, Los Alamos bring compute to storage
Disk drive vendor Seagate is bringing compute to disk drives and storage arrays – so-called near data computing – in partnership with Los Alamos National Labs (LANL).
The two have...
Storage news ticker – 13 March
Data protector and manager Atempo has a partnership with Microsoft’s Azure cloud to migrate unstructured datasets to the Azure cloud using its Miria software. The Azure Storage Migration Program...
Backblaze: SSDs fail slightly less than HDDs
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has found its SSD annual failure rate was 0.98 percent compared to 1.64 percent for disk drives, a difference of 0.66 percentage points. It also...
Who’s winning and losing in the storage market?
The latest look at storage supplier revenue trends show the flash and disk media companies taking a dive and systems suppliers like Dell, Pure Storage, and Snowflake enjoying a...
HPE Alletra storage sales a bright spot
HPE storage contributed to strong first fiscal 2023 quarter results as all business units grew and collectively drove revenues, leading the company to raise its outlook.
Revenues in the quarter...
Dell storage closes FY 2023 with record revenue
The fourth quarter is always a belter for Dell and its latest results show a record $5 billion in storage revenues.
Total revenues in the quarter ended February 3 were...
Pure swings FlashBlade//E at unstructured data
Pure Storage says it has a new FlashBlade//E product optimized for capacity, designed to replace mainstream disk-based file and object stores with an acquisition price comparable to disk-based systems,...
Storage news roundup – March 1
Avery Design Systems has announced a validation suite supporting the Compute Express Link (CXL) industry-standard interconnect. It enables rapid and thorough system interoperability, validation and performance benchmarking of systems...
WekaIO’s stance on sustainable AI puts down roots
WekaIO wants us to be aware of datacenter carbon emissions caused by workloads using its software technology – AI, machine learning and HPC – and aims to counter those...
Panasas’s halfway HPC house approach to the public cloud
HPC parallel scale-out file system software supplier Panasas has decided that full scale adoption of the public cloud, with its PanFS software ported there, is not needed by its...
Storage news roundup – February 22
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has announced a preview of Azure HPC Cache Premium Read-Write designed to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency access to files similar to local NVMe storage. It provides lower...