Panasas takes on board new investors in push for growth
In its nineteenth year the HPC storage supplier Panasas has secured a fresh funding round and given the board a makeover.
The cash infusion is less than $50m and "tranched",...
VAST Data: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the hard drives
VAST Data wants to direct an extinction event for hard drives.
This is a bold ambition but VAST Data is a remarkable startup, certainly in the scope of its claims...
VAST striping and data protection
The way data is written and erasure coded is crucial to VAST’s data protection capabilities and centres on striping.
Suppose a QLC drive fails. Its data contents have to be...
VAST Data’s business sitrep
VAST Data was founded in 2016 by CEO Renen Hallak, an ex-VP for R&D at XtremIO and its first engineer. Some time before that he worked on computer science...
VAST Data’s Universal filesystem
The VAST Data system employs a Universal Storage filesystem. This has a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which is a byte-granular, thin-provisioned, sharded, and has an infinitely-scalable global namespace.
It...
VAST decouples compute and storage
Separate scaling of compute and data is central to VAST’s performance claims. Here is a top-level explanation of how it is achieved.
In VAST’s scheme there are compute nodes and...
Smartphones get NVMe for faster flash card data access
The SD Association is adopting the NVMe protocol to speed data access to add-in tablet and phone flash cards.
The industry standards-setting group of around 900 companies has agreed the...
WD smartphone flash drive stores two hour movie in under four seconds
Western Digital is sampling a smartphone flash drive that can store a two-hour movie in 3.6 seconds.
The embedded flash drive writes data at up to 750MB/sec and goes by...
HPE improves storage revenues, seven quarters straight. But how is 3Par doing?
HPE grew storage revenues three per cent year-on-year in the first 2019 quarter - the seventh quarter in a row that the company has increased revenues in this segment.
Storage revenues for the quarter were $0.98bn, accounting...
Toshiba builds bridge to super fast, super dense SSDs
Toshiba has a new way to connect an SSD’s controller and flash chips, making higher-capacity and faster SSDs possible - at levels not yet seen.
SSD capacities are limited by...
DRAM, it feels good to be a gangsta: Only Intel flash revenues on the...
An abrupt quarter-on-quarter revenue cliff drop affected all the main flash vendors, except Intel, which saw revenues rise despite falling prices.
DRAMeXchange highlighted the sudden revenue reversals everywhere but Intel,...
Storage news sprinkles to start the week
The amount of data to be stored, processed and protected grows incessantly. That's fuelling product growth and partnerships between suppliers as they jostle to taker advantage of the benign...