Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
NetApp blows filer benchmark to smithereens
All-flash NetApp filers have blown the SPEC SFS 2014 SW Build benchmark record to hell and gone.
A 4-node system scored 2,200 and an 8-node one 4,200 - 2.8 times...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
External storage sales fall behind in bull market
IDC's Q3 2018 worldwide storage tracker shows the overall storage market is booming except for external, shared array / filer technology.
The total storage numbers reported are summarised in...
Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap
Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
Enterprise Storage in 2019: Keep those industry predictions rolling
Updated on January 21, 2019 with more predictions from Pure Storage, IBM and Maxta following the addition of Archive 360, Arcserve, NetApp and StorPool predictions earlier in January.
Original introduction It's...
Quantum dedupes DXi hardware range from 3 to 2 models
Quantum has refreshed its DXI deduplicating backup-to-storage array appliance line, replacing three hardware models with just two.
Two high-end models, the DXi6900 and DXi6900S (a DXI6900 with added SSDs to...
Two ways in which QLC flash can cause falling SSD prices
Blocks & Files expects the rapid adoption of 96-layer QLC flash for fast-access, read-centric data storage applications, where its lower write endurance, compared to TLC flash, matters less. But will...
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
Look to the visible Horizon and witness the future of HDD vs SSD
Disk drive capacity shipped and NVMe SSD sales will both boom over the next few years because more data needs to be stored and accessed faster when processed.
So says...