New moves in AFA driven by QLC flash
A new chapter is opening in the all-flash storage array (AFA) world as QLC flash enables closer cost comparisons with hybrid flash/disk and disk drive arrays and filers.
There are...
Storage news ticker – May 12
Airbyte, which supplies an open source data integration platform, today announced its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Until now, Airbyte provided support to its users through...
Dell PowerStore gets more snapshots than a tourist
Dell is giving its all-flash PowerStore array direct integration with PowerProtect backup appliances, enabling it to provide storage nodes to VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure compute nodes for separate compute and...
NetApp gets file storage benchmark boost
NetApp has a world-record SPEC Electronic Design Automation (EDA) score of 6300, easily exceeding the previous best result: 3,600 from a WEKA system.
Update. SPEC comment added. 6 May 2023.
This...
Gartner: Begun the cloud file services wars have
A report put out at the end of February titled “Modernize Your File Storage and Data Services for the Hybrid Cloud Future” by Gartner research VP Julia Palmer pulls...
Nvidia AI supercomputer shows its Lustre in Oracle cloud
Nvidia is running its AI supercomputer on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure with its Lustre file system relying on NVMe block access SSDs.
An Nvidia blog details how its DGX Cloud uses...
Komprise service auto tiers files to Azure blobs
Komprise has an Intelligent Tiering for Azure service in the Azure marketplace to scan on-premises NAS stores and transfer cold files to Azure blob stores, saving customers cash.
The Komprise...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
Pure Storage updates FlashArray Purity OS
Pure Storage has added integrated block, file and virtual machine management facilities to its FlashArray Purity OS, saying this enables its array to run all three workloads simultaneously with...
HPE: Alletra is our storage brand to rule them all
HPE says it is trying to simplify its portfolio branding by moving from a multitude of product and service tags to just six.
This will take place over the next three...
Storage news ticker – April 19
The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program announced the completion of new school construction in Sierra Leone and Guatemala, in partnership with GoDaddy. The Barbara Junior Secondary School in Sierra Leone...
Cache me if you can: Infinidat claims accelerated growth rate
Infinidat says it has accelerated its business, claiming a 59 percent annual bookings growth rate in calendar Q1 of 2023.
The privately held company, which didn't release revenue numbers, has...