Pavilion Data unfurls NVMe-oF array roadmap
Pavilion Data is developing a NVMe-oF flash array that is double the speed and capacity of its current line-up. The storage vendor also plans to release several software enhancements...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more
Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically.
Commvault upgrades for cloud and simpler data...
Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more
Data growth provides the fuel for our main items in this week's data storage news digest. Let's get cracking.
Backblaze cloud storage reaches exabyte milestone
Backblaze, a cloud storage provider, is...
NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage
NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies.
Coldago, a small data storage research firm, surveyed...
Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate
Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming, web conferencing...
Micron gives insight (kinda) into 3D XPoint revenues for the first time
Micron sold at least $118.8m worth of 3D XPoint media and drives in its second fy2020 quarter, ended February 27. This is the first time the US chipmaker has...
Diamanti: K8s workloads run so much faster on our bare metal HCI system
Profile: Diamanti has built a bare metal Kubernetes container platform with persistent all-flash storage.
The California startup was founded in 2014 by three Cisco UCS server veterans and has...
HPE releases urgent fix to stop enterprise SSDs conking out at 40K hours
Updated 28 March 2020.
HPE has told customers that four kinds of SSDs in its servers and storage systems may experience failure and data loss at 40,000 hours of operations....
Inspur leapfrogs Huawei to take second place in SPC-1 benchmark
Inspur has claimed the second spot in the SPC-1 benchmark, behind Fujitsu. Prior to the latest results, the Chinese systems vendor's best SPC1 performance was 15th place.
Inspur used an...
Pure Storage loses third CMO in three years
Robson Grieve, Pure Storage chief marketing officer, has left the company after 14 months in post. He was the company's third CMO in three years.
Pure is a fast-growing...
Samsung opens fifth gen flash memory plant in China – on time despite pandemic
Samsung has begun making NAND wafers at its new flash foundry in X'ian, China - on schedule despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new plant will manufacture fifth generation Samsung 3D...
Panasas assesses six new data storage technologies for HPC use case
Modern data storage technologies may deliver high speed data access but not all make the cut for the exacting demands of high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Panasas is a niche...