ScaleFlux: Our computational storage drives are bigger, faster and cheaper than ordinary SSDs
Interview: ScaleFlux computational storage flash drives offer quadruple the capacity, double the performance and halve the flash costs of ordinary SSDs - so says CEO Hao Zhong.
The startup...
Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives
We recently reported technology analyst firm Wikibon's thesis that SSDs will replace disk drives in enterprise data centres. So what do the hard drive makers have to say for...
Kioxia and Western Digital build 162-layer 3D NAND
Kioxia and Western Digital have announced the sixth generation of their BiCS 3D NAND technology, with 162-layers and a 40 per cent smaller die than their gen 5 BiCS...
StorCentric gets out its first Violin, an entry-level NVMe all-flash array
StorCentric, the mini data storage conglomerate, has launched its first Violin-branded system since buying the company's assets last October.
This is the Violin QV1020, an entry level NVMe drive all-flash...
VAST Data is ‘cashflow positive’
VAST Data was cash flow-positive "going out of 2020" and finished the fourth quarter on a $150m run rate. The high-end all-flash array startup's revenues in FY2021 ended Jan...
Pure resells Komprise for FlashArray file replication and disaster recovery
Pure Storage is to resell Komprise software technology to replicate files from one FlashArray to another, so providing a level of disaster recovery.
Shawn Hansen, FlashArray GM at Pure Storage,...
Pure Storage ramps up enterprise creds with ransomware and DR support
Pure Storage has added disaster recovery and ransomware protection via Purity OS upgrades for the company's FlashArray systems. Pure has also launched the C40, a new entry-level FlashArray. And...
Your occasional storage digest with a ZB of shipped disk capacity, petabyte flash Dell...
A zettabyte of disk capacity shipped in 2020. A 2U Dell server can have over a petabyte of Nimbus Data flash. And GigaSpaces in-memory apps can use less space...
Pure Storage FlashBlade goes to work with Azure Stack
Gridpro, a Swedish cloud management software vendor, has integrated Pure Storage’s unified file and object FlashBlade array with Azure stack.
Gridpro is the developer of EvOps, a software technology that...
IBM’s got a brand new pizza box – an entry-level FlashSystem
IBM has launched the pizza box-sized FlashSystem 5200, its most compact storage system to date. The company has further updated the 5000 line with new 5015 and 5035 systems...
HPE servers gain SSD performance ‘at 10k HDD price points’
HPE has announced the Very Read-Optimised SSD replacement option for SATA-connected disk drives in Apollo, ProLiant and Synergy servers. The 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch VRO SSDs are plug-in replacements for...
Hard drives are doomed? You must be joking, Infinidat retorts
Yesterday we reported VAST Data's Howard Marks's argument that hard drives are IO disks are IO sluggards, caching doesn’t work, and overall all-QLC flash array costs are the same...