What do you see when you put container storage firms into the sorting triangle?
In this week's storage roundup we look at: container-attached storage; extracting, transforming and loading data into cloud data warehouses, and a fresh new take on the classic 4-box diagram....
Comparing Nvidia A100 GPU storage vendors is a pain
Analysis. An enterprise that is in the market to buy storage systems that attach to Nvidia's DGX A100 GPU systems will most likely conduct a supplier comparison exercise. Multiple...
Seagate competes with its OEMs through StorONE
Seagate is selling its Exos AP drive arrays through StorONE, a software-defined storage startup. This takes the company into direct competition with OEMs such as Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara,...
Equinix data centres offer Pure storage as a service
Pure Storage is opening a new front in the cloud edge storage market, with data centre operator Equinix offering Pure-as-a-Service to its customers.
Equinix has fitted out 18 data centres...
Your occasional storage digest with Arcserve, StorageCraft, DDN, and more
Old Arcserve and young StorageCraft - both second or third tier data protection companies - are merging. Are they huddling together for warmth or is it a growth play?...
Screaming AI: NetApp joins DDN, WekaIO and pals with Nvidia-validated setup
NetApp and Nvidia have developed an all-flash ONTAP array/ DGX A100 GPU server AI reference architecture, pumping out up to 300GB/sec and joining DDN, Pavilion Data, VAST Data and...
HPE: No need to swap disk for SSDs in the enterprise
Some storage suppliers and analysts are saying QLC (4bits/cell) flash drives can replace disk drives for enterprise data storage. For example, Wikibon, VAST Data and StorONE. Others say that...
Pure growth restarts; exceeds guidance after last quarter’s blip
Pure Storage returned to form in Q4 ended January 31, topping expectations with $502.7m revenues booked on the back of "record sales" for Pure as-a-Service, FlashBlade, FlashArray//C and...
NetApp fires on flash and cloud cylinders to drive strong Q3
NetApp revenues grew five per cent to $1.47bn in Q3, on the back of good performance in cloud and flash storage. Net income was $182m, down 34.3 per...
How to stop El Capitan’s thousands of blades from overwhelming the SAN
The El Capitan exascale supercomputer will use HPE-designed 'Rabbit' near node local storage to get data faster to its many processing cores from a backend SAN.
The $600m 2 exaFLOPs...
ScaleFlux: Our computational storage drives are bigger, faster and cheaper than ordinary SSDs
Interview: ScaleFlux computational storage flash drives offer quadruple the capacity, double the performance and halve the flash costs of ordinary SSDs - so says CEO Hao Zhong.
The startup...
Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives
We recently reported technology analyst firm Wikibon's thesis that SSDs will replace disk drives in enterprise data centres. So what do the hard drive makers have to say for...