Dell’s external storage crown slips – just a little
Dell continues to dominate IDC's external OEM storage market numbers for 2019’s fourth quarter. But the company experienced a 6.4 per cent fall in revenue in a flat market...
VMware vSphere 7 adds NVMe-oF support to speed storage access
Earlier this week we covered the main details of VMware's blockbuster vSphere 7 launch. In this article we zoom in on VMware’s vSphere 7 support for NVMe over Fabrics...
Intel thinks own-brand NAND is not absolutely fab
Intel is exploring its options on self-manufacturing NAND flash memory and may buy in from third party suppliers.
The revelation came from CFO George Davis, speaking last week at a...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Infinidat, Retrospect, Toshiba and more
In this week's data storage roundup, Infinidat has put things in place to support vSphere disaster recovery failover across metro distances while Retrospect make it simple and easy to...
Western Digital hires Cisco exec as new CEO
Western Digital has appointed David Goeckeler, the head of Cisco’s networking and security Business, as its new CEO.
Goeckeler starts on March 9 and outgoing CEO Steve Milligan stays on...
WD adds enterprise SSDs to Gold brand
Western Digital has taken the covers off Gold brand data centre SSDs that are similar in performance to its existing SN640 solid state drives.
Gold was, until today, WD’s brand...
HPE storage sales remain flat despite adding SimpliVity HCI to the numbers
HPE storage revenues fell in Q12020, but the company was pleased even to maintain "flat sequential revenues competitive backdrop", CFO Tarek Robbiati said.
The Register noted in its...
StorONE buys Storage Switzerland
StorONE, an all-flash array startup, has bought in a ready-made marketing department with the acquisition of Storage Switzerland.
George Crump, founder of the five-strong analyst firm - which...
Nexsan turbo-charges the BEAST array with QLC flash
Nexsan has re-engineered the BEAST entry-level block storage array to use QLC flash and 16TB disk drives, providing lower latency, more bandwidth and higher capacity.
The BEAST's latest incarnation comes...
Pure Storage lays off staffers
Pure Storage has laid off some of its 3,350 staff, with reports pegging the number at around 100 people, which the firm has yet to confirm.
Barrons reports 3 per...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Supermicro going to the poles, Kioxia flash provisioning and...
5G and edge computing are opening up fresh horizons for servers and storage to provide real time processing with machine learning attributes. Supermicro is on the case, while...
Pure’s FlashArray//X R3 is an Optane cacher
The third generation Pure Storage all-NVMe FlashArray//X with optional Optane caching is now generally available.
FlashArray//X R3 is a go-faster piece of kit and features;
Xeon SP (Cascade Lake) processor support,Support...