Porsche gains Synergy in drive to HPE GreenLake
Spot the odd ones out: Carrera, Cayman, Boxster, Macan, Cayenne, Synergy, GreenLake. Easy; Synergy and GreenLake aren’t Porsche cars - but they are being used by Porsche’s in-house IT...
Storage growth eludes IBM as revenues slide again
A look at storage systems’ progress in IBM’s third quarter shows continuing long-term decline but expect a mainframe-led pickup next quarter.
IBM's overall results were examined by our sister publication...
Concerning the mistaken belief that key value databases chew up SSDs
Blog: There is a misguided notion that key value databases are unfriendly to SSDs. That's because unattended compaction layers on SSDs can shorten the SSD’s life.
You might think that key...
How key value databases shorten the lifespan of SSDs
Explainer Organising a key value database for fast reads and writes can lower an SSD's working life. This is how.
Key value database
A relational database stores data records organised...
OpenIO ‘solves’ the problem with object storage hyperscalability
OpenIO, a French startup, is claimed the speed record for serving object data - blasting past one terabits-per-second to match high end SAN array performance.
Object storage manages data as...
Your occasional storage digest, including Cohesity, SIOS and SAP
Cohesity grows nicely, SAP heads for the cloud and SIOS can save SAP in the cloud from disaster. Read on.
Cohesity has cracking fy 2019
Secondary storage converger Cohesity claimed a...
Hitachi Vantara: our VSP 5000 is the world’s fastest storage array
Hitachi Vantara has beefed up its high-end storage line-up with the VSP 5000 series, which it claims is the world's fastest enterprise array.
The company can certainly claim bragging rights...
Micron: HPC users should drop disk drives for ‘faster, more reliable’ QLC SSDs
QLC NAND memory is more reliable than HDDs and organisations that need storage for read-intensive applications should switch to these next generation SSDs. So says Micron.
Appropriate QLC flash workloads...
Hyperscalers will save disk drive makers from death by SSD
Will SSDs kill the enterprise disk drive business? Hyperscalers will continue to use disks out to 2035, if Seagate's revenue forecasts are accurate, but enterprises will switch en masse...
Your occasional storage digest, including Violin, Lenovo and more
It' s time to listen to some Violin practice and find out about Lenovo file tiering plus a host of news snippets from the storage industry. Read on.
Violin Systems...
Ignore drive write messaging… SSDs are more reliable than HDDs, Period.
This blog mostly pertains to SSDs in server and storage arrays.
All NAND relies on electrical charges in silicon. Writing data involves a Program Erase (P/E) cycle, also known as...
Sayonara, Toshiba Memory… Konishiwa, KIOXIA
LogoWatch Today Toshiba Memory Holdings officially rebrands as KIOXIA and has unveiled the new logo.
It's... grey.
What do the marketing folks say? “The silver of Kioxia’s new logo will...