Flash memory market returns to revenue growth
TrendForce data shows the flash market growing again, with the six suppliers reporting bit shipment growth and revenue increases in the third quarter. For most NAND suppliers, average selling...
Dell pumps up storage revs in Q3
Storage is the bright star in Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group’s revenues for its third fiscal 2020 quarter, growing while server revenues fall. Both VxRail hyperconverged systems and vSAN license...
Intel’s dynamic cache 665p SSD goes faster, lasts longer
Intel has refreshed its PCIe consumer SSD line, with the new 665p going a little faster and a lot longer than the previous 660p drive.
The chip giant pre-announced the...
HPE issues firmware fix to to stop SSD failure
HPE has issued a firmware fix to stop certain SAS SSDs crashing at 32,768 hours of operation.
The HPE customer bulletin, dated 19 November, says SSD Firmware Version HPD8 is a...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Amazon, DDN, Intel and more
It’s all about speed this week; Amazon is announcing new stuff before its December Re: Invent conference. DDN has spruced up its arrays and Intel is launching a data...
WekaIO’s Matrix edges Intel DAOS as the fastest HPC file storage system
WekaIO has taken first place in the IO500 fastest HPC file system performance league table.
The full results were revealed this week at SC19 in Denver, with WekaIO edging Intel...
Dell and NetApp price competition puts a crimp in Pure Storage revenue growth
Robust price competition led by Dell clipped the wings of storage high flyer Pure Storage in fiscal Q3.
In the earnings call yesterday, Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo reported ...
Liqid composes Western Digital OpenFlex storage within and across racks
At the SC19 event Composable systems startup Liqid announced it can compose servers with Western Digital’s OpenFlex storage both within and across racks in a data centre, thanks to...
InfiniteIO fires up the Application Accelerator to torch metadata latency
InfiniteIO has juiced up its file metadata accelerator, doubling operations per second and increasing file handling from 750,000 to 1 billion per node and 2 billion per cluster.
The...
Nvidia GPU uncorks storage bottleneck with Magnum IO, claims 20x speed up
The ceaseless quest for avoiding storage IO delays has alighted on GPUs and Nvidia has devised a way to bypass the host server CPU and memory and accelerate data...