Western Digital upgrades NVMe SSDs, recruits composable allies
Western Digital has refreshed its NVMe SSD, composability and storage server products.
The company has added 96-layer 3D NAND data centre drives, almost quadrupling maximum capacity compared to a prior...
Seagate spins scads of cash from slowing disk drive business
Seagate successfully squeezed out cash from its disk drive business in its latest quarter despite long-term revenue decline, and with little or no help from enterprise arrays and SSDs.
Seagate’s...
Here’s a way to optimise your SSDs for different workloads
Flash storage software startup Burlywood has introduced an analysis service for SSDs that profiles their production workload in order to tune operations.
Customer workloads differ by read/write mix, IO sizes,...
Torrid end to torrid year for Western Digital
It's been a hard year for Western Digital but things look like getting better.
Western Digital’s fourth fiscal 2019 quarter saw depressed revenues and a loss compared to a year...
Samsung feels effects of DRAM and NAND memory glut
Samsung revenues are still suffering the effects of the global memory glut but demand uplift signs are apparent.
The company today reported DRAM and NAND sales revenues down 34...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Druva, Microsoft, Veeam and StorONE
Take a jolly dash along the River Storage and visit Druva for a backup history lesson, Microsoft with ideas on formal data sharing, StorONE with Dell server storage...
DriveScale gives Toshiba SSDs fungible seal of approval
Toshiba’s CD5 and CM5 NVMe data centre SSDs are certified for use with DriveScale composable infrastructure.
This infrastructure composes servers on demand from pools of available driveless servers and storage...
Japan trade dispute throws spanner in SK hynix works
SK hynix has detected signs of the end of the memory and NAND chip glut but but a Japan-Korea trade dispute is threatening the supply of chemicals it needs...
Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio
Storage software supplier Minio reckons that the public cloud and fast object storage will 'squeeze the life out of traditional file and block storage suppliers'.
Chief Marketing Officer...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring AWS, hard drive sales, Red Hat and more
Start your week with some tasty storage snacks, including Amazon offering high-performance computing in its cloud, preliminary IDC disk drive ships for the second quarter, and Red Hat support...
MacroSAN array takes third place in SPC-1 benchmark table
Chinese storage vendor MacroSAN has submitted an all-flash array for the SPC-1 v3 benchmark and has gained the third fastest ranking with 6,100,329 SPC-1 IOPS.
The Storage Performance Council (SPC)...