WD touts lower-capacity flash drive for smartphone makers
Western Digital is releasing a lower capacity embedded flash drive for smartphone makers. We infer this is a response to low demand for the company's 512GB option, which...
Google hybridises six storage vendors for the Anthos Kubernetes cloud
Google has announced the Anthos Ready Storage program for third-party on-premises storage suppliers.
Six vendors have qualified for the initial line-up: Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure Storage and...
The flash revolution will be delayed – due to an unexpected strong demand for...
The tech storage industry consensus is that enterprise hard drives sales will fall at the expense of solid state drives (SSDs) in all areas except for hyperscale data centres....
Chinese NAND and DRAM fabs escape coronavirus damage
Chinese DRAM and NAND foundries have so far escaped the impact of coronavirus, which has disrupted the supply chains of many global industries.
Trendforce, a market research firm, notes that...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring mainframes, HAMR and a data protection deluge
Your occasional storage digest this week features boatloads of data protection news from Atempo, Clumio, Cobalt Iron, Datrium, Druva, Infrascale and Overland-Tandberg.
Also we cover mainframe data extraction and...
NetApp Q3 earnings fall short of Wall Street expectations
NetApp shares fell 13 per cent last night on the back of disappointing third quarter results and lower guidance for the next quarter.
The storage giant recorded its fourth quarter...
So long, farewell, Storwize. IBM melds storage array line under FlashSystems brand
IBM has launched faster FlashSystem arrays, in a move that also sees it simplify its block access storage array line-up.
The company now goes to the non-mainframe market with a...
Why fast object storage is poised for the mainstream
Four years ago, Pure Storage pioneered fast object storage with the launch of its FlashBlade system. Today fast object storage is ready to go mainstream, with six vendors touting the...
‘Reverse CDN’ is huge storage vendor opportunity for self-driving cars
Autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles will need black box facilities to help with accident cause analysis in the case of a crash. They may also need a 'reverse' content delivery...
Your occasional storage digest, (mostly) featuring Couchbase DBaaS service
Slim pickings for this week's enterprise storage round-up. But let's kick off Couchbase making its NoSQL database available as a cloud-based service.
DBaaS for Couchbase surfers
NoSQL database supplier Couchbase...
Hard disk drives will disappear from your data centre – unless you work for...
The flash assault is progressing to the point where disk drives could will disappear from most data centres in a few years. That's because flash affordability and performance will...
Nexsan adds QLC flash to storage array line-up
Nexsan today announced a dense flash addition to its mid-range E-Series array and also added fast RoCE access and blockchain security to the Assureon archive line.
Mihir Shah, CEO of...