Go faster, go smarter — StrongLink data manager gets automation and performance upgrade
StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS) has upgraded its StrongLink software to add more performance and automation to this multi-vendor, multi-storage platform that abstracts silos into a single metadata-driven namespace.
StrongLink is...
Repeat performance — ExaGrid exceeds revenue record in second consecutive quarter
Deduping backup target appliance suppler ExaGrid has exceeded revenue records for a second consecutive quarter, with revenue up 50 per cent year-on-year and ten per cent sequentially in Q2...
DDN updates EXAScaler software with new management framework and Hot Nodes
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has released an updated version of its EXAScaler parallel file system software with configuration and management APIs to automate its operation, support for Nvidia’s GPU-Direct Storage,...
Forget passwords — try fingerprint drive access
No need to bother with passwords — Verbatim has built external drives with secure fingerprint access to prevent data loss or unauthorised access.
There are 512GB and 1TB handheld recorder-sized...
HPE adds faster/bigger Plus-size model to Apollo storage server line
HPE has added a Plus variant to its Apollo 4200 Gen10 server, adding updated Xeon CPUs, more memory and more storage capacity to make it more attractive to customers...
Gartner gives Pure number-3 spot in all-flash arrays — ahead of IBM and HPE
Gartner Research data for the first quarter of 2021 puts Pure Storage in third place in the all-flash array market, behind only Dell and NetApp.
Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers...
Some Western Digital My Book Live units become My Book Deads
Some Western Digital MyBook Live NAS devices have been reset over the cloud and owners’ files made inaccessible. Users around the globe have been affected.
Update: 6 July 2021. Stellar...
PowerFlex, Dell EMC’s other HCI system, supports more Nvidia GPUs and Oracle KVM hypervisor
Dell EMC has updated its PowerFlex software, widening GPU and hypervisor support and improving resiliency and manageability.
PowerFlex is Dell EMC’s scale-out virtual SAN and hyper-converged system with multi-hypervisor support,...
Seagate touts five-year no-touch 1.9PB SAS JBOD with autonomous regeneration
Seagate has announced its Exos CORVAULT, a 1.9PB SAS JBOD taking up just four rack units, providing 19PB in a full rack — if your floor can take the...
It’s HAMR time. Seagate hooks up with Showa Denko to develop heat-assisted magnetic recording...
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) needs new recording media on disk platter surfaces. One solution is in the works from Seagate, which has partnered with platter and media supplier Showa...
Disky business: DRAM array cacher Infinidat adds faster solid state array to extend InfiniBox...
High-end array supplier Infinidat has announced its first all flash array as a higher-performance extension to its existing disk-based InfiniBox line, using the same DRAM-cached architecture and software.
Infinidat has...
Dell’s CloudIQ storage health and performance checker adds security status monitoring
Dell EMC has introduced cybersecurity features into CloudIQ, its AIOps application for Dell EMC IT infrastructure products.
CloudIQ supports PowerMAX, PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerProtect, VxBLock, VxRail, as well as older arrays...