Five Ways Dell EMC PowerStore Doesn’t Measure Up to HPE Nimble Storage
Sponsored Dell EMC recently announced PowerStore, their new mid-range storage platform intended to replace Unity, SC Series and XtremIO. They spotlighted features including multi-array clustering, data-in-place upgrades and automation...
GigaOm: Qumulo tops Scale Out File Systems leader group
GigaOm lists 20 scale-out file system (SOFS) suppliers in a hotly-contested market, and a dozen, led by Qumulo, are duking it out in a leaders’ category.
Report author Enrico Signoretti...
WANdisco launches LiveData Migrator on AWS
WANdisco launched LiveData Migrator on AWS today. This is automated, self-service software for moving unstructured data while the source dataset is in active use. WANdisco said customers can initiate...
Western Digital speeds up shingled disk write performance
Western Digital has found a software partner called Kalista.IO that makes host-managed shingled magnetic recording drives appear like normal drives to applications.
Shingled Magnetic Recording crams more read tracks...
VAST Data tackles AI workloads at LightSpeed
VAST Data is enabling customers to tackle bigger AI and HPC workloads courtesy of a new storage architecture that works hand in glove with Nvidia GPU Direct.
Unusually the...
Seven storage suppliers settle on AWS Outposts
Seven storage suppliers have announced AWS Outposts support, in a co-ordinated PR move by AWS.
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, Amazon’s public...
VMware adds files, objects and more in vSAN two-step
VMware is extending Kubernetes capabilities by offering third party integration hooks to vSAN. The company today also announced the next vSAN update will add file services and Active Directory...
Scality adds all-flash support to RING object and file storage
Scality has added all-flash support for RING8 object storage software. The tweak takes Scality RING8 into new performance-sensitive file and object workloads.
Scality RING already supports flash use for...
Optane in the membrane: Cloudian’s HyperStore flashes its SSD, Intel memory credentials
Cloudian has added SSD support and Optane-readiness to its HyperStore object storage product, aiming it at performance-intensive workloads such as analytics and ultra-rapid data restore.
The California storage firm claimed...
Nutanix Blockstore nips through Stargate to speed AOS storage
Nutanix will be bypassing Linux kernel context switches to accelerate AOS storage processing in its latest release. That makes AOS faster, which is good news for its mission-critical application...
Biohackers and the glass bead DNA storage game
Netflix has engineered a topical tech twist to rev up interest in the Biohackers TV series - using DNA storage, claimed to last for a thousand years or more,...
Panasas CEO Faye Pairman makes way for COO Tom Shea
HPC storage supplier Panasas is changing its CEO and President, as 10-year incumbent Faye Pairman hands over the reins to COO Tom Shea.
Panasas CFO Elliot Carpenter left last month...