NetApp blows filer benchmark to smithereens
All-flash NetApp filers have blown the SPEC SFS 2014 SW Build benchmark record to hell and gone.
A 4-node system scored 2,200 and an 8-node one 4,200 - 2.8 times...
Chris Mellor’s Rough Guide to the Storage Planet
The storage industry can be bewildering, with so many hardware and software technologies and overlapping products. How to make sense of it all?
Let's think of computer storage as...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Falconstor financials show stability may be round the corner
FalconStor, the struggling storage software supplier, is showing signs of stabilising in its latest set of results.
The company is the developer of FreeStore and Virtual Tape Library (VTL)...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…
Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox.
We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve deep...
Ceph backers apply Foundation in storage makeover
Ceph, the open source storage software platform, has gotten its very own foundation. Just like Linux.
The Ceph Foundation is organised as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. It...
Qumulo co-founder Peter Godman quits the company
Peter Godman, a co-founder and CTO of scale-out filer startup Qumulo has quit.
It was confirmed to industry commentator and event organiser Philippe Nicolas by Qumulo CEO Bill Richter.
Richter told...
DDN completes clean SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark sweep
DDN has submitted a winning VDA workload benchmark in the SPEC SFS 2014 performance suite.
The SPEC SFS2014 benchmark tests filer performance. Earlier this month DDN submitted four SPEC SFS...
Egnyte thinks global with $75m injection from Goldman Sachs
Egnyte has secured $75m in a new funding round - five years after its last round and 18 months after its CEO said he didn’t need more cash.
The rationale...
Show me the money! SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark is not fit for purpose
Opinion: The SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark shows which system vendor are fastest at a set of file system performance tasks, but there are no price/performance numbers. This means you...
Superfast filer WekaIO recruits filer tech guru
Andy Watson has left Minio, an object storage software company where he was one of three CTOs, to take up the same role at WekaIO. His new company is...