OpenIO ‘solves’ the problem with object storage hyperscalability
OpenIO, a French startup, is claimed the speed record for serving object data - blasting past one terabits-per-second to match high end SAN array performance.
Object storage manages data as...
Hitachi Vantara: our VSP 5000 is the world’s fastest storage array
Hitachi Vantara has beefed up its high-end storage line-up with the VSP 5000 series, which it claims is the world's fastest enterprise array.
The company can certainly claim bragging rights...
Micron: HPC users should drop disk drives for ‘faster, more reliable’ QLC SSDs
QLC NAND memory is more reliable than HDDs and organisations that need storage for read-intensive applications should switch to these next generation SSDs. So says Micron.
Appropriate QLC flash workloads...
Hyperscalers will save disk drive makers from death by SSD
Will SSDs kill the enterprise disk drive business? Hyperscalers will continue to use disks out to 2035, if Seagate's revenue forecasts are accurate, but enterprises will switch en masse...
WD and Seagate mull 10-platter HDDs: Stopgap or BFF?
HAMR and MAMR disk drives could be delayed until 2022 with 10-platter, 20TB conventionally recorded drives coming in 2021.
Trendfocus, a research firm specialising in data storage, suggests...
Data Domain joins Dell’s Power gang, debuts bigger faster backup arrays
Dell EMC has changed the name of its Data Domain product line to PowerProtect, to coincide with the launch of bigger, faster systems.
Data Domain is Dell EMC’s deduplicating...
Seagate: our disk drives are safe from SSDs for at least 15 years
A Seagate analysts’ day last week showed the company thinks the $/TB cost advantage of disk over SSDs will last for 15 years.
As reported by Wells Fargo senior analyst...
Western Digital exits data centre systems – sells IntelliFlash to DDN, puts ActiveScale...
Western Digital is abandoning the storage systems business and is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN. It has also put its ActiveScale archival storage array business up...
NetApp takes top billing in Gartner primary array magic quadrant
Gartner’s first combined hybrid and all flash primary array magic quadrant gives higher then expected rankings to NetApp, Pure and Infinidat, including them alongside traditional leaders Dell EMC, HPE and...
Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting to merge
Hitachi is merging the Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting businesses under the Hitachi Vantara brand, with effect from January 2020.
Hitachi Vantara supplies VSP storage array, servers and business analytics...
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Qumulo updates software
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo has streamed out a set of software updates over the past quarter:
Alternate Data Streams - Increase data access across both...
Why buy 16TB hard drives? Our 18TBs give you more for your money -WD
Customers could go straight to 18TB and 20TB disk drives from current 14TB drives, bypassing the 16TB capacity level.
So says Aaron Rakers, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo, following...