NAND what: ScaleFlux pushes out higher capacity and speed QLC computational storage drive
ScaleFlux has announced a CSD 2000 computational storage drive using Micron quad level cell (QLC) flash with integrated compression. It claims it can achieve costs under $0.01/GB/year over a...
Your occasional storage digest with Veritas, Nasuni, NetApp, ArcServe and SUSE
There's a whole lot of data protection goodness this week, with new moves at Veritas, Arcserve and HYCU. We also have a NetApp ONTAP array telemetry update plus...
Startup releases ‘self-defending’ SSD that protects data from ransomware attacks
Cyber-security startup Cigent Technology has built a "self-defending" Secure SSD which constantly checks the credentials of any access to data on the drive. The firm claims it can make...
Western Digital and computational storage: ‘We believe it will happen’
Disk drive and SSD supplier Western Digital has spoken about computational storage use cases using SSDs and the need for a standard drive-host interface for computational storage drives (CSDs),...
Kioxia revenues rising, demand wind stronger: No news yet on IPO or acquisition
NAND and SSD supplier Kioxia is reporting a rise in revenues and underlying profitability as market demand strengthens, but there is no news on either a resumed IPO or...
More details on HPE’s new storage array, the Alletra 9000
Analysis: We have more HPE Alletra's features and performance details, after analysing a post by Dimitris Krekoukias. The Nimble exec provided a more informed comparison with the competition, Primera...
Glory Days are over: The storage hardware startup era has ended
Opinion: The golden age of storage hardware startups is over and storage software rules the world.
B&F is including hyper-converged infrastructure appliance vendors amongst the storage startups and we recognise...
Pure Storage is building an everything-as-a-service stack over hardware and software products
All-flash array supplier Pure Storage is becoming a public cloud-like business, offering its products and capabilities as services in a hybrid multi-cloud world. In the background is its cloud-native...
When you node better, you do better, or that’s the idea: Dell EMC upscales...
Dell EMC has launched a faster all-flash PowerScale system
Your occasional storage digest with SoftIron, StorageOS, NAKIVO and more
The common factors in this week’s storage news round-up are the two mainstays: Kubernetes and the public cloud. Kubernetes storage and protection products are getting enhanced and the rush...
Panasas seeks partners as it faces up to public cloud challenge
Profile. A briefing meeting with HPC storage supplier Panasas’ chief exec in April revealed a company intent on broadening its partner base, building a lower entry-level system and working...
Mid-range clustered Alletra 6000 supports more SAP HANA nodes than top-end 9000
HPE's Alletra array performance results have been revealed, with the top supported SAP HANA Node count rising from 64 for the clustered all-flash Nimble to 216 for the mid-range...