Panasas assesses six new data storage technologies for HPC use case
Modern data storage technologies may deliver high speed data access but not all make the cut for the exacting demands of high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Panasas is a niche...
Dell’s external storage crown slips – just a little
Dell continues to dominate IDC's external OEM storage market numbers for 2019’s fourth quarter. But the company experienced a 6.4 per cent fall in revenue in a flat market...
WD My Passport: 5TB of shingled disk capacity in my shirt pocket
I can store five terabytes in my shirt pocket with Western Digital’s My Passport portable drive.
The latest iteration of My Passport as released in September last year, and its...
Seagate aims to deliver HAMR blow to WD nearline hard drives
Seagate thinks it will gain a HAMR-based competitive advantage over Western Digital - because its arch-rival is delaying a move to the HDD technology. It also thinks Toshiba...
Researchers show how magneto-optical drives could be cheaper and faster than HDDs
Physicists at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have altered a magnetic bit’s polarity with light, potentially opening the way to denser and faster disk drives...
Infinidat offers some services free to help customers with Covid-19 planning
Infinidat is offering unlimited capacity on demand and temporary swing capacity free of charge for 30 days, in response to a spike in customer demand fuelled by the...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Infinidat, Retrospect, Toshiba and more
In this week's data storage roundup, Infinidat has put things in place to support vSphere disaster recovery failover across metro distances while Retrospect make it simple and easy to...
Western Digital hires Cisco exec as new CEO
Western Digital has appointed David Goeckeler, the head of Cisco’s networking and security Business, as its new CEO.
Goeckeler starts on March 9 and outgoing CEO Steve Milligan stays on...
HPE storage sales remain flat despite adding SimpliVity HCI to the numbers
HPE storage revenues fell in Q12020, but the company was pleased even to maintain "flat sequential revenues competitive backdrop", CFO Tarek Robbiati said.
The Register noted in its...
Nexsan turbo-charges the BEAST array with QLC flash
Nexsan has re-engineered the BEAST entry-level block storage array to use QLC flash and 16TB disk drives, providing lower latency, more bandwidth and higher capacity.
The BEAST's latest incarnation comes...
Dell merges server and storage sales teams to combat enterprise slowdown
Dell has combined its server and storage teams in response to a slowdown in enterprise sales in North America and China.
Speaking in the Dell Q4 earnings call yesterday, COO...
Infinidat exhibits six exabytes – good that!
Infinidat, the high-end disk-based storage array maker, today announced it has deployed more than six exabytes of storage capacity, up from 5EB six months ago.
The company anticipates continued demand...