MackStor launches 200TB DoItRite spinning NAND hybrid drive
Storage veterans have devised a 3-tiered, 200TB hybrid SSD-HHD device, the DoItRite 2000, containing both spinning disk platters and a non-rotating platter of NAND chips combining NVMe SSD speed...
StorMagic branches out into digital asset management
StorMagic has bought the assets of SoleraTec, a small California video storage company - its second acquisition in 12 months.
Update: Hans O'Sullivan comments added. April 1, 2021.
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Penguin teams up with Red Hat Ceph and Seagate for big fast object storage
Penguin Computing has launched a hefty, fast Ceph-based object storage system for analytics and machine learning workloads. And it has a hefty name to match - 'Penguin Computing DeepData...
Your occasional storage digest with Lightbits Labs, Western Digital and Samsung
In this week's roundup Lightbits Labs strengthesm the enterprise credentials of its NVMe/TCP array; Western Digital says it needs fewer layers with its 3D NAND than others suppliers; ...
Dell EMC all-flash array sales soar above NetApp (and everyone else)
Gartner number crunching shows Dell EMC is building a substantial all-flash array (AFA) revenue lead over NetApp. NetApp remains in second place in this market but Huawei and Pure...
FlashBlade is Pure Storage’s billion dollar babe
Pure Storage's beancounters say the company is close to surpassing $1bn sales revenue for its groundbreaking FlashBlade all-flash storage array.
The company this week said it gained several...
Need to store PBs of data? SSDs don’t cut the mustard, says Tosh HDD...
Hard drives remain indispensable, and predictions that SSDs will replace them in the enterprise are wrong. So says Rainer Kaese, a senior biz dev manager at Toshiba Storage Solutions....
Fast RAID rebuild StorONE preps Azure debut
StorONE is running a technology preview of its TRU S1 software installed on Azure.
The company chose Azure cloud over AWS because of customer demand, StorONE marketing head...
Your occasional storage digest with Liqid, Panzura and HPE GreenLake
Slurm sounds like a type of slurping or squirming but gives Liqid better access to the high-performance computing market. Panzura is adding ransomware detection to its cloud file system...
IDC: external storage revenues fell 2.1% in Q4, 2020
Worldwide revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 2.1 per cent Y/Y to $7.8bn in Q4 2020. The market for the full year 2020 fell 4 per cent.
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ScaleFlux computational storage drives better than vanilla SSDs at PostgreSQL
ScaleFlux’s computational storage drives have slightly better and much less variable multi-threaded performance on a PostgreSQL database application than ordinary SSDs. They also use up substantially less drive capacity...
Mayastor is fastest open source storage, Intel says. So where are the numbers?
Intel declares “OpenEBS Mayastor is the fastest open source storage for Kubernetes,” but the documentation lacks any details that could allow comparison with other Kubernetes storage products suchs ...