Enterprise SSDs cost ten times more than nearline disk drives
Nearline drives remain the sweet spot in the HDD market - and a key reason is that the 10x price premium that enterprise SSDs command remains stubbornly high and...
This week in storage with Lenovo, NetApp, and more
This week sees Lenovo and NetApp bundles, edge-focused TrueNAS boxes,, and faster-than-ever OpenEBS storage from MayaData. We’ll start with Lenovo and NetApp getting in a bundle.
Lenovo and NetApp expand...
NVMe of the People: WD launches superfast My Passport SSD
Western Digital has introduced an NVMe version of the WD My Passport portable SSD drive that reads data at 1,050MB/sec and writes at 1,000MB/sec - almost twice the speed...
KumoScale adds online data migration to its storage bow
Kioxia America has added online data migration to its KumoScale flash box, to allow continued application access to data in drive maintenance windows.
Joel Dedrick, Kioxia America’s VP and GM...
iXsystems supercharges OpenZFS storage
iXsystems claims it has the world’s fastest OpenZFS storage systems with the new M60 array and TrueNAS v12 software. With this week's upgrade, TrueNAS users get twice the capacity...
SK hynix touts its first NVMe consumer SSD: Good spec, good price
SK hynix has entered the consumer NVMe SSD market with a gumstick format Gold P31 drive intended for designers, content creators and PC gamers.
The P31 looks to be a...
WD F3200 flash device is ‘open, fast, composable’
Western Digital has announced the F3200, the latest iteration of its flash fabric shared storage system for composable systems. Key takeaways? The NVMe-oF device is faster than its predecessors,...
Pure and Cohesity team up with FlashRecover data protection
Pure Storage is reselling Cohesity software with its FlashBlade storage array to provide a single flash-to-flash-cloud, data protection and secondary data management system.
Mohit Aron, Cohesity CEO and founder, said...
Nutanix Clusters takes on-premises Nutanix to AWS
Nutanix is ready to announce Nutanix Clusters. This brings the on-premises Nutanix experience to AWS and opens another front in the company's battle with VMware.
Sources close to the company...
Western Digital loves flash more than hard drives
Western Digital is generating more revenue from flash and SSDs than from disk drives. Does this show that WD is losing out big time to Seagate in the key enterprise...
ScaleFlux computational storage makes Percona MySQL faster
Percona’s open source MySQL database runs faster with ScaleFlux computational storage SSDs. And they have the benchmarks to prove it.
The companies compared the ScaleFlux CSD 2000 with an Intel...
IBM adds cloud tiering to boosted memory mainframe storage array
IBM has improved performance and functionality for the mainframe focused storage array and virtual tape library (VTL) products.
The DS8900F flash array gets a 70 per cent increase in...