Big disk drives are IO sluggards at scale – VAST Data
Disk drive IO limitations will cripple the use of larger disk drives in petabyte-scale data stores, according to VAST Data's Howard Marks, who says Flash is the only way...
Hyperscalers demand tape, Quantum happy to oblige
Quantum’s third fiscal 2021 quarter revenues ended December 31 were $98m, down 5.1 per cent and net income was -$2.7m, down from $4.7m. But Chairman and CEO Jamie Lerner...
This week in storage with HPE, Qumulo, and another K8s data protection startup
This week, HPE announced it has sold a neat Qumulo system on its Apollo server for image processing, and Replix emerged from stealth as a containerised app data protector....
Western Digital has a very good Q2… but enterprise?
Western Digital's Q2 revenues out-stripped expectations on the back of strong client-side and retail sales for disk drives and flash device. Yesterday's earnings announcement saw the company's stock jump...
Dell’s VxRail is an EPYC story in the works
Dell Technologies has spruced up the VxRail hyperconverged line-up with AMD EPYC processor options brought in to P Series performance-intensive configurations.
The new all-flash P675F and hybrid flash-disk P675N have...
Quantum upgrades hybrid storage appliance
Quantum has refreshed its hybrid storage appliance line-up with the H2000 giving the new range higher-capacity drives and faster connectivity than its predecessor.
Quantum said the HS2000 marks a significant...
Qumulo helps drive Covid-19 pandemic modelling scenarios
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is using scale-out Qumulo filers and 18TB Western Digital drives, to aid Covid-19 research.
Based at the University of Washington,...
Pavilion Data takes pole position in GPUDirect race
Pavilion Data, the high-end storage array maker, sends data to an Nvidia DGX-A100 GPU server faster than DDN, VAST Data and WekaIO, according to a Nvidia-validated test result.
Developed by...
SSDs will crush hard drives in the enterprise, bearing down the full weight of...
The supposed limitation of flash memory manufacturing capacity compared with hard disk drive manufacture is a “myth”, according to the Wikibon Research analyst David Floyer.
More flash capacity is already...
Samsung gets flashier- and a bit faster -with the mainstream 870 EVO SSD
Samsung has updated the 860 EVO SATA SSD to the 870 EVO version, changing the flash from 64-layer to 128-layer V-NAND, and making it slightly faster.
KyuYoung Lee, VP of...
VAST and Nvidia show how to push data to GPUs fast – over...
VAST Data and Nvidia today published a reference architecture for jointly configured systems built to handle heavy duty workloads such as conversational AI models, petabyte-scale data analytics and 3D...
It’s (quick) payback time for Cisco UCS and Cohesity
In this week's storage news roundup, Cohesity and Cisco say users can save bundles of cash compared to using other servers and unstructured data management software. We've also got...