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...
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...
Sphere 3D spins out Overland into independence. But for how long?
Sphere 3D today completed the divestment of its Overland Storage subsidiary. It is now effectively debt-free.
The same cannot be said for Overland and its Tandberg subsidary. This lossmaking concern...
All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…
Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox.
We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve deep...
Infinidat: We own the high-end storage array market
Infinidat claims it has a 60 per cent plus share of multi-petabyte storage array shipments. But we have only its word to go on.
Brian Carmody, Infinidat CTO, argues that...
Overland owner posts deeper loss on lower Q3 revenues
Sphere 3D, the owner of Overland Storage and Tandberg, and virtualization vendor in its own right, saw revenues decline and losses deepen in its third 2018 quarter.
The company blamed...
Tintri co-founders join DDN
Tintri co-founders Kieran Harty and Mark Gritter have joined DDN's Tintri business unit. Gritter assumes the CTO position while Harty has the more nebulous role of "full-time advisor".
In a...
Secret IBM script could have prevented 11 hour US tax day outage
The April 2018 US tax day outage was due to a faulty IBM disk array and could have been avoided with a secret IBM script.
On-line tax filing was held...
Destroying data forever – you can do it. We can help, says Paragon Software
It’s the opposite of data protection: data destruction. Paragon Software’s Disk Wiper will completely and irrevocably delete data from solid state or disk drives, laughing at GDPR and supporting...
Dell EMC spruces up storage array line for SMBs
Dell EMC’s new PowerVault ME4 Series are for small and medium businesses: installable in 15 minutes, configurable in 15 more, and usable as either SAN array or direct-attached PowerEdge...
It’s no yolk; Seagate lays some cracking 14TB disk drive eggs
Seagate has spread its 14TB, 7,200rpm helium-filled disk drive tech across the PC, NAS, enterprise capacity and surveillance market sectors.
A few years ago the idea of having a PC...
Cock of the X86 systems walk, Dell is killing it
Dell has cemented its position as the world's biggest IT hardware vendor, chalking up significant gains in market share for Q2 and growing revenues 18 per cent on the year...