Seagate: our disk drives are safe from SSDs for at least 15 years
A Seagate analysts’ day last week showed the company thinks the $/TB cost advantage of disk over SSDs will last for 15 years.
As reported by Wells Fargo senior analyst...
Huawei builds world’s biggest all-flash storage array
Huawei used its annual shindig HUAWEI CONNECT in Shanghai last week to show off its latest all-flash storage array, the OceanStor Dorado V6. And it’s a monster - with...
Samsung heralds the era of super-smart SSDs
Samsung has started shipping smart PM1733 and 1735 SSDs with up to 30-plus TB capacity, gen 4 PCIe for faster data transfer and features that enable them to operate...
Western Digital exits data centre systems – sells IntelliFlash to DDN, puts ActiveScale...
Western Digital is abandoning the storage systems business and is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN. It has also put its ActiveScale archival storage array business up...
Liqid adds memory extension tech to composable system
Liqid’s composable systems can now compose up to 16TB of Liqid Memory, enabling larger applications to reduce IO and execute much faster.
A composable system dynamically sets up a virtual...
Data ingest and backup vendors flock to Pure Storage platform
Pure Storage has teamed up with Cloudian, Komprise and Veritas to offer customers ways of protecting FlashArray data and migrating data to/from FlashBlade.
FlashArray is Pure’s block access flash array...
NetApp takes top billing in Gartner primary array magic quadrant
Gartner’s first combined hybrid and all flash primary array magic quadrant gives higher then expected rankings to NetApp, Pure and Infinidat, including them alongside traditional leaders Dell EMC, HPE and...
Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs
Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies’s vice chairman and overall product and operations boss, has stepped away from day-to-day control of the server-to-storage-to-networking-to-protection ISG Group. He passes the baton to EMC...
Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting to merge
Hitachi is merging the Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting businesses under the Hitachi Vantara brand, with effect from January 2020.
Hitachi Vantara supplies VSP storage array, servers and business analytics...
Pure Storage speeds, enlarges and extends systems, embraces subscriptions and heads for the clouds
Pure Storage has lined up a series of launches for day one of its Accelerate customer event in Austin, Texas that see the company's hardware go faster, go larger,...
NetApp to speed object data with all-flash StorageGRID appliance – sources
NetApp will launch an all-flash StorageGRID object storage system in coming weeks, according to industry insiders.
Object storage holds unstructured data that can scale out beyond traditional file systems but...
Pure Storage eyes multi-PB data farms for QLC storage array
Pure Storage is expected to announce a quad-level cell flash system tomorrow, Sept 17, at Pure Accelerate in Austin, Texas.
A QLC flash array would reduce flash storage costs...