Your Easter enterprise storage getaway
We have picked out four themes for you in our Easter enterprise storage roundup: flash arrays are taking over from disk arrays; backup to the cloud is booming,...
Rising All-Flash Array tide fails to lift Pure, IBM and HPE boats
The all-flash array storage market is growing strong and Dell and NetApp are the winners. It is far too soon to pick out the losers, but can the next...
IBM storage hardware revenues fall for third quarter in a row
IBM’s storage hardware business fell in the first quarter, with poor DS8000 sales and weak mid-range performance to blame.
Within IBM's overall Q1, FY2019 results, storage hardware revenues were down...
Sony PlayStation 5 jump cuts to SSD for faster gaming
Sony’s next-generation PlayStation gaming console will use a solid-state drive for faster game loading and play.
The current PlayStation 4 has a hard disk drive but struggles a little...
More storage river pointers to Cloud and Flash growth
Scanning the turbulent river that’s the storage market we can see four waves criss-crossing it this week that point to the strength of the cloud storage, flash replacing disk,...
StorPool, an Intel customer, runs slide rule over Optane DIMMs
Optane DIMM performance looks good for large databases and virtual machines (VMs) in memory mode and could be useful for metadata storage and write-back caching in app-direct mode. But...
Our SSD storage is for life
Optiarc, an optical archiving disk maker, has released three SSD products that ensure “storage for life a user will be able to maintain their content indefinitely.” However, there...
Western Digital touts tiny flash card with massive write cycles for video surveillance
Western Digital has unveiled a microSD format flash card for video cameras that can sustain 3,000 write cycles and pump out data at 30MB/sec.
WD said the WD Purple QD312...
Intel launches Optane-accelerated QLC flash drive
Intel has made a dual non-volatile media drive that offers fast and slow access to a terabyte of data.
The Optane-NAND gumstick format H10 card drive presents itself as a...
E8 practises scales for BeeGFS singalong
E8, the NVMe-oF array supplier, is backing up ThinkParQ’s clustered parallel file system to deliver files faster to high performance computing customers.
ThinkParQ's product is called BeeGFS, an open source...
No corners cut in our cheap hybrid storage box, Qumulo claims
Qumulo has launched an entry-level system that adds 80 per cent more capacity and 200 per cent faster read speed.
There has been a flurry of recent activity from the...
Lenovo gets into fast virtual SAN array business with Excelero
Lenovo is buddying up with Excelero to provide NVMe over Fabrics access speed to data for its ThinkSystem servers.
The Data Centre Group at Lenovo has done the global reselling...