ExaGrid goes big with backup appliances
ExaGrid has increased capacity in its deduplicating backup appliances and at the same time, cut the product portfolio from nine systems to seven. Appliances of any size can be...
It’s (quick) payback time for Cisco UCS and Cohesity
In this week's storage news roundup, Cohesity and Cisco say users can save bundles of cash compared to using other servers and unstructured data management software. We've also got...
Tales from the exabyte storage vault. Tune in for the next episode
Recently, I spoke to Cloudian CEO Michael Tso about the awesome scale and data storage management challenges of exabyte-levels of storage. This prompted me to wonder what an exabyte...
Spectra Logic: We do Azure now
Spectra Logic has upgraded its StorCycle file lifecycle management software, with V3.3 adding support for Azure, more AWS S3 tiers, and improved workflows.
StorCycle takes ageing files from expensive primary...
Western Digital settles gender bias class action for $7.75m
Final approval has been granted to a Western Digital settlement of a class action lawsuit, which accused the company of underpaying female staff and discriminating against them in pay,...
Infinidat picks Western Digital exec to be its new CEO
Infinidat, the enterprise large array supplier, has appointed a new CEO and CFO, replacing its co-CEO structure and completing the leadership transition from founder Moshe Yanai's era.
The new CEO...
SPUs, Arm CPUs and FPGAs: SoftIron talks hardware acceleration
SoftIron, the startup storage supplier, use Arm processors instead of x86 CPUs for controllers in its Ceph-based HyperDrive. This provides scale-out storage nodes behind a storage router front-end...
There can be only one? Infinidat co-CEO departs the scene
Infinidat co-CEO Kariel Sadler left the company without fanfare last month. His departure may pave the way for the appointment of a sole CEO.
Eran Brown, Infinidat's EMEA and APAC...
Incremental storage media density magic meant flash chipped away at disk in 2020
All storage media technologies saw increased density in 2020 - tape, disk, flash, persistent memory and even DNA. However QLC flash advances meant the nearline disk bastion is...
IBM external storage sales plummet in Q3. HPE and Huawei do better
IBM's enterprise external storage revenues tumbled 21.6 per cent in the third quarter while HPE and Huawei outgrew an anaemic market. However, there is a helluva long way to...
Lenovo boosts low end all-flash array with end-to-end NVMe
Lenovo has juiced up its entry level all-flash array with NVMe SSDs, NVMe/FC access and faster Fibre Channel support. The company said the new ThinkSystems DM5100F array is suitable...
Pure overtakes NetApp in Gartner magic quadrant for primary arrays
Pure Storage is rated highest in Gartner’s 2020 primary arrays Magic Quadrant (MQ), overtaking NetApp, last year’s front runner.
Gartner defines primary arrays as all-flash or hybrid flash and disk...