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)...
FADU flash drives go fast, use less power
FADU Technology's NVMe SSDs go faster and use less power than competing drives thanks to hardware-accelerated controllers and a redesigned flash translation layer.
Based in Korea, FADU Technology is a...
Toshiba Memory Corp changes name to Kioxia
Toshiba Memory Corporation is rebranding as Kioxia on October 1.
TMC makes NAND flash memory and runs a joint venture with Western Digital to fabricate NAND at plants in Japan.
Once...
Western Digital parades go-faster, get-bigger IntelliFlash arrays
Western Digital has updated the IntelliFlash storage array range with a lower-priced entry-level NVMe models and a higher-capacity SAS array. The storage giant has also added live dataset migration...
Molecular data storage makes waves
Research scientists have demonstrated kilobyte-scale data storage in synthetic metabolitic molecules, smaller than DNA, with data read by mass spectrometry. This could lead to dense offline storage that may...
Dell EMC’s Midrange.NEXT: Everything we know so far
Update May 5, 2020. Dell EMC today launched the PowerStore (formerly called Midrange.NEXT) data storage array line. Check out our PowerStore explainer. Our editor thinks this is "most important...
WD’s IntelliFlash gets SAP HANA-certified
IntelliFlash all-flash arrays have been certified for use by SAP’s HANA in-memory database system.
IntelliFlash was the main product portfolio Western Digital Corp. acquired when it bought Tegile in August...
StorCentric scoops up ailing startup Vexata
Enterprise NVMe array startup Vexata has been bought by StorCentric, a private-equity-owned company which yesterday acquired the Retrospect backup software company.
Vexata was founded in 2013 by CEO Zahid Hussain...
Your tasty storage collection of files, flash and the cloud
The themes of this collection of storage news bytes revolve around backup, parallel file access, the public cloud and flash, meaning data at scale and fast data access.
We...
13 minute-power cut blacks out global flash chip supply
A power failure in Yokkaichi, Japan has thrown Toshiba and Western Digital’s flash supply into chaos. The temporary loss of manufacturing capacity will reduce global flash supplies by about...