Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate
Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming, web conferencing...
Dell debuts oven-ready AI platforms to ease researchers’ setup pain
Dell EMC announced yesterday a bunch of reference architectures and pre-defined workstation, server and Isilon scale-out filer bundles for data scientists and researchers working in artificial intelligence.
In effect these...
SoftIron, the Ceph storage startup, raises $34m
SoftIron, the UK developer of Ceph storage hardware and software, has raised $34m in venture capital.
Some of the cash will be used to grow sales, product marketing, and support...
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...
Catalog claims DNA data storage is economically feasible for the first time
A DNA-based data storage system can store millions of times more data in the same volume as a conventional system, lasts for thousands of years at room temperatures, and...
Seagate turns to NVMe to amp up IronWolf 510 SSD speed
Slow SATA no longer cuts it for SSDs in Seagate's IronWolf NAS systems, with the company announcing the much faster NVMe IronWolf 510 SSD.
Seagate launched the SATA IronWolf 110...
Qumulo makes cloud filer software free to COVID-19 researchers
Qumulo is making its cloud filesystem software available at no charge to researchers that are working to minimise the spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus.
The scale-out filesystem supplier...
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...
NetApp sinks claws into Talon Storage
NetApp has bought Talon Storage, a supplier of caching software that connects branch offices to file servers in the public cloud. Terms were undisclosed.
Talon, headquartered in New Jersey, was...
StorONE buys Storage Switzerland
StorONE, an all-flash array startup, has bought in a ready-made marketing department with the acquisition of Storage Switzerland.
George Crump, founder of the five-strong analyst firm - which...
Qumulo adds encryption to Hybrid File Software
Qumulo has added end-to-end encryption to Hybrid File Software in an upgrade that also adds role-based access control and integrated backup.
The scale out filer startup said customers of Hybrid...
Scality preps scale-out file system on Azure Blob Storage
Scality is developing a scale-out file system (SOFS) for Microsoft Azure Blob storage.
The company is building a cloud-native scale-out file system in the Azure Cloud using Microsoft Azure Cosmos...