Seagate touts Lyve Drive Mobile System for business
Seagate unveiled the Lyve Drive Mobile System series of integrated and modular data storage drives, carriers and receivers for multi-stage workflow processes at CES 2020.
The aim is to capture...
Samsung’s Stellus Technologies emerges from stealth. Soon…
Samsung's Stellus Technologies is preparing to step out of stealth. Its LinkedIn entry states: "We are officially one month away from unveiling our revolutionary Native File System for unstructured...
Let’s start the New Year storage round-up with NAND passing the 3-digit layer count
Best wishes for the New Year, storage people. Let's kick it off with our first storage roundup in 2020.
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Samsung suffered a power outage on New Year’s eve...
WD: Storage class memory will not replace DRAM or NAND
In our recent interview with Siva Sivaram, the Western Digital's president for technology and strategy discussed upcoming solid state storage technology. Let's begin with his thoughts on storage-class memory.
Storage-class...
Micron calls the bottom of the memory market
Micron thinks it has reached the bottom of the trough of over-supply affecting the industry and revenues will grow in coming quarters.
The memory and flash chip maker's Q1 fy2020...
Inspur spurs storage to go faster and store more
Inspur, the Chinese computer systems maker, has announced a dozen storage products - eight updated AS5000 hybrid and all-flash unified block and file arrays, three distributed systems and a...
Kaminario pilots single data plane across the clouds: Interview with CTO Eyal David
Kaminario is going full-tilt into hybrid, multi-clouds. The all-flash SAN array vendor wants to provide workload mobility between the on-premises and public cloud environments, Eyal David, Kaminario's CTO, told...
The three Cs of Actifio 10c: Clouds, containers and copy data
Actifio has released a major update of its eponymous copy data manager software.
Actifio 10c focuses on three 'Cs': cloud, containers and copy data. The company emphasises backup as...
Kioxia has cunning plan to make Penta-level flash production more feasible
Kioxia, formerly known as Toshiba Memory, has devised a way to make 3D NAND cells smaller and so reduce the layer count needed to reach a capacity level.
A floating...
Lexar demos world’s fastest consumer SSD
Lexar is demonstrating a prototype 7.5GB/sec NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD which looks set to be the world's fastest consumer SSD when it launches next year.
PCIe 4.0 doubles the current...
Panasas mulls ‘Ludicrous Mode’ latency-killer for PanFS
GPU-using workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning require faster access to data and metadata to keep them busy. And this presents a challenge for high performance...
Western Digital cranks up the speed with WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD
Western Digital has upped the speed of its gumstick format PC+notebook boot drive by adding two more PCIe lanes.
The SN520 is a 250GB, 500GB, or 1TB drive M.2 2280...