Infinidat closes mystery funding round
Infinidat, the high-end storage array maker, has completed a D-round of funding with existing investors, but it is not saying how much it raised. Prior to this round, the...
Huawei, Pure and IBM enterprise storage sales up; Dell, Hitachi, HPE and NetApp are...
The Covid-19 pandemic sent enterprise storage revenues down in 2020’s first quarter but Huawei, Pure Storage and IBM went against trend and grew revenues.
The latest edition of IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly...
Huawei plans 20TB SMR drive for OceanStor Pacific storage array
Huawei is planning to use 20TB SMR drives in its OceanStor Pacific, a mass data storage "array for the 5G era".
Launched last month, OceanStor Pacific is a unified...
Will NVMe become the universal block storage access protocol?
Facebook’s virtual OCP summit earlier this month hosted two provocative presentations that suggested NVMe could become a universal block access protocol. How realistic is this prospect?
The 2020 OCP Virtual...
Enterprise SSDs are ten times the price of nearline disk drives
Enterprise SSD sales are rising sharply but so too are nearline disk drive sales, according to a TrendFocus SSD industry review of the first 2020 quarter. Nearline disks are...
StorONE challenges storage array makers to stop hiding prices
StorONE CEO Gal Naor today challenged storage array vendors to reveal their prices in public. "Buying an enterprise storage system shouldn’t be as hard as buying a car, but...
Disk drives will still store more than half of the world’s data in 2024
Update: Media share information added and StorageSphere difference from DataSphere added.
Disk drives will store 54 per cent of the world’s data in 2024, down from 65 per cent in...
StorageOS reinvents VSAN for containers
StorageOS, a UK startup, has released version 2 of its eponymous software, which effectively reinvents virtual SANs for containers.
Alex Chircop, CEO, said StorageOS 2 delivers production grade storage in...
Strong flash performance underpins Western Digital Q3
Western Digital revenues climbed 14 per cent on the back of record flash memory performance to $4.18bn in the third fiscal 2020 quarter ended April 3. The company generated...
Toshiba publishes list of consumer HDDs that use shingled magnetic recording
Toshiba has revealed which of its desktop-type drives use SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology, with its potential for slower performance due to continuous random writes.
Some users have complained that...
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Kioxia America
Kioxia America has added snapshots and clones to its KumoScale all-flash storage system.
It has done this by including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones to the KumoScale NVMe-over Fabrics-based...
Western Digital begins mending fences in WD Red NAS drive SMR spat
Western Digital has heralded a positive shift in its approach to users of shingled WD Red NAS drives, via a short statement on the company blog.
As described in our...