WekaIO pulls alongside Dell EMC Isilon at Genomics England
WekaIO is being used for a genome sequencing installation's new project where an existing project's temporary Isilon performance problem, due to near 100 per cent capacity usage, has...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Pavilion Data, HPE, Supermicro and more
This week's enterprise storage round-up starts with NVMe-over-Fabric startup Pavilion Data is readying a big sales and marketing push, spending August 2019 VC money. And there are other items...
Hitachi Vantara targets solution sales with new army of consultants
Hitachi has completed the merger of Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting, first announced in September.
The company has grand plans for the enlarged Hitachi Vantara, which will focus on digital...
Seagate touts Lyve Drive Mobile System for business
Seagate unveiled the Lyve Drive Mobile System series of integrated and modular data storage drives, carriers and receivers for multi-stage workflow processes at CES 2020.
The aim is to capture...
Seagate lights up gamer SSDs
Seagate has launched a brace of external SSDs for gamers at CES. The accent is on speed and lighting effects.
The FireCuda Gaming SSD is based on Seagate’s FireCuda...
HAMR or MAMR? Western Digital’s disk drive roadmap could go either way
Blocks & Files met Siva Sivaram, President for Technology and Strategy at Western Digital, in San Jose. We discussed various aspects of disk drive technology, NAND and storage-class memory,...
Western Digital considers HAMR time for really big disk drives
Microwaves or heat? Western Digital has yet to decide which is better for its future disk drives.
The company is adopting microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technology but could still switch...
Meatier MemSQL database munches more data in memory and goes faster on disk
Version 7 of MemSQL’s relational database, out today, does space-saving in memory and adds hash indexing on disk to speed access.
This is phase 1 of MemSQL’s single row+column concept,...
Dell retains external storage crown, NetApp is down – and Huawei is climbing fast
Dell Technologies pulled in external storage revenues of $2,075.8m in the third quarter, accounting for 31.5 per cent of an anaemic global market, up 1.3 per cent to $6.6bn.
Dell...
Catch up time: Toshiba unveils enterprise disk drive strategy
Toshiba aims to catch up with its competitors in storing enterprise unstructured or nearline data.
The company revealed details of its disk drive strategy in a presentation by Hiroshi Fukuchi,...
Toshiba launches small capacity, large format video surveillance disk drive
Toshiba has launched a 2-6TB capacity video surveillance disk drive. The DT02-V series succeeds the 2014-era MD04ABA-V drives. These had five platters and held 4TB or 5TB.
Judging by...
Microsoft stress tests Seagate Mach.2 drives for cloud roll-out
Microsoft is testing Seagate's MACH.2 dual-actuator technology prior to deploying the 14TB Exos 2X14 disk drive in Azure and Exchange cloud services. The dual actuators will enable the company...