Three in a row. Liqid composes DoD supercomputer contract
Liqid, the composable infrastructure vendor, has won a $20.6m deal with the US Army Corps of Engineers - bagging its third supercomputer contract in a month.
In August, Liqid scooped...
Western Digital carves flash and disk drives into separate divisions
Western Digital's new boss CEO David Goeckeler is making his mark by reorganising the flash and disk operations into two business units.
WD previously segmented its business between Data...
NetApp is morphing into cloud beast. But can it change its spots quickly enough?
Reports emerging from this week's NetApp's Financial Analysts’ Day show the storage hardware veteran is changing its identity to present itself as a hybrid cloud data services company.
But according...
Pure Storage buys Portworx for $370m
Pure Storage is buying Portworx, the container storage software startup, for $370m in cash.
Update. Pure Storage says it is buying Portworx. 16 September 2020.
By acquiring Portworx, Pure is obtaining...
VAST Data tackles AI workloads at LightSpeed
VAST Data is enabling customers to tackle bigger AI and HPC workloads courtesy of a new storage architecture that works hand in glove with Nvidia GPU Direct.
Unusually the...
Seven storage suppliers settle on AWS Outposts
Seven storage suppliers have announced AWS Outposts support, in a co-ordinated PR move by AWS.
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, Amazon’s public...
Scality adds all-flash support to RING object and file storage
Scality has added all-flash support for RING8 object storage software. The tweak takes Scality RING8 into new performance-sensitive file and object workloads.
Scality RING already supports flash use for...
Actifio pushes cloud DR that accelerates slow object storage to near SSD speed
ESG has validated Actifio’s claim it can provide public cloud disaster recovery at near SSD speed using slower, low-cost object storage in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
A yet-to-be-published “Microsoft...
Storage tracker: Huawei’s tops in enterprise storage growth (for now), Pure’s share of AFA...
IDC’s second quarter 2020 storage tracker revealed Huawei blew every other supplier away with its external storage revenue market share growth rate. In the same period Pure Storage saw...
Optane in the membrane: Cloudian’s HyperStore flashes its SSD, Intel memory credentials
Cloudian has added SSD support and Optane-readiness to its HyperStore object storage product, aiming it at performance-intensive workloads such as analytics and ultra-rapid data restore.
The California storage firm claimed...
Back to basics: HPE adds SSDs, faster controllers, tiering and Cloud Volumes backup juice...
HPE’s basic Modular Smart Array storage line now goes a bit faster, with tiering and backup to the cloud, after the tech giant's Gen 6 update announcement.
The dual-controller MSA...
Seven attempts to speed processing with faster storage
Storage array enhancements used to be simple; a faster drive led to faster arrays. But memory-like protocols and drives have muddied the water, and hardware-enhanced drive and array controllers...