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...
Why Kaminario changed its name to Silk
Silk is the new name for Kaminario, an on-premises all-flash array startup, that has transformed itself over the last three years into a cloud block storage software company.
Blocks &...
This week in storage, featuring a mucky International Space Station NAS system
This week the International Space Station's NAS gives vent, Nebulon pumps out a survey, Pliops talks about its storage processor, we see how Pivot3's video HCI is getting better...
How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...
SSD zoning is great
IBM Research and Radian Memory Systems have found SSD zoning can deliver three times more throughput, 65 per cent more transactions per second and greatly extend an SSD’s working...
Nearline drives are Seagate’s money-making machine
Hyperscalers and enterprise data centres helped Seagate grow revenues in its Q4, despite a pandemic-related drop in demand in several market areas.
Revenues climbed 6.3 per cent year-on-year to $2.52bn...
NetApp kicks SPC-2 price performance ass
NetApp has gained a top 10 SPC-2 benchmark and the price performance record with an all-flash end-to-end NVMe EF600 array.
SPC-2 measures throughput and price performance, using three component workloads: large...
Strong demand for server memory lifts SK hynix
The second 2020 quarter marked a revenue and profits uptick for SK hynix, which sold more server memory and lowered costs by increasing process yield.
Revenues of ₩8.6tn ($7.15bn) were...
Nvidia’s GPUDirect Storage vanquishes AI bounce buffers
The datasets used in big data analytics and AI model training can be hundreds of terabytes, involving millions of files and file accesses. Conventional X86 processors are poorly suited...