Western Digital makes fast and fat portable hard drives for gamers
Western Digital today announced five external drives for gamers. The new WD_Black brand comprises four disk drives, including two Xbox-specific offerings, and one SSD.
They are designed to...
Innodisk embeds Azure Sphere into industrial SSD
Innodisk, the Taiwainese storage vendor, has built an industrial SSD with Microsoft’s Azure Sphere providing software updates, device-level analytics, data security, remote monitoring and control through the Azure cloud.
The...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Dell EMC, Cloudera, InfiniteIO, Cloudian and more
Here are some storage news stories to round off the week.
Dell EMC storage comes closer to Cloudera
Dell EMC and Cloudera have strengthened their partnership whereby Dell EMC storage is...
Oracle demolishes hardware Pillar, lays off 300 flash storage staff
Oracle is shuttering its flash storage division and laying off at least 300 employees, according to various sources.
Employees were told of the layoffs on Thursday, August 15 by Mike...
NetApp squeezes ONTAP into teeny weeny device
NetApp is working on running ONTAP, an operating system for storage arrays, on IOT edge devices and other small things
The game was given away by a tweet today from...
NetApp confirms revenue miss as enterprises reduce AFA purchases
A sharp slowdown in enterprise customers' all-flash array purchases has sucker-punched NetApp, and though it is hiring more sales heads to fix this worry, things aren't forecast to get...
Toshiba nudges direct-to-Ethernet SSD towards the light
Toshiba and Samsung are pushing the idea of SSDs directly accessed over Ethernet as a way of simplifying the storage access stack.
This idea of directly accessing storage drives across...
Pavilion Data Systems bags $25m investment
Storage startup Pavilion Data Systems has completed a $25m C-round of funding.
CEO Gurpreet Singh said in a statement: “We are pleased with the Series C oversubscribed round of funding...
Azure IoT Edge runs inside an NGD SSD
Computational storage supplier NGD has embedded the Azure IoT Edge service within its SSDs.
NGD has announced the 32TB Newport SSD in the U.2 (2.5-inch) form factor, twice the capacity...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Exagrid, Broadcom, Lite-On, Toshiba and more
A sprinkling of storage news briefs to start the week.
Exagrid refresh deduplicates deduplicated files
Target deduplicating backup appliance supplier Exagrid has refreshed its appliance software to v5.2.2.
This release adds...
Samsung readies launch of 256GB 136-layer SATA SSD
Samsung has made a 100+ layer SSD using sixth generation V-NAND technology, although this is not available for sale just yet.
V-NAND is Samsung’s term for its 3D NAND technology...
Liqid unleashes the Honey Badger PCIe 4 SSD. It’s fast.Very fast
Liqid has added the LQD4500, its first PCIe 4.0 SSD to its composable systems line-up. This is possibly the world's fastest SSD. Internally, Liqid calls the thing...