Measure for Measure: SPC-1 benchmark yields new class of storage price-performer
Korea’s Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) has filed an SPC-1 benchmark ranking seventh in the performance list, and cementing a new performance and price-performance grouping within the SPC-1 rankings.
The organisation filed the...
Samsung parades 4TB SSD in the consumer quad
Samsung has started shipping the 860 QVO, a 4TB QLC consumer SSD.
QLC means quad-level cell flash and 4bits per cell - one more than the typical TLC (3bit/ cell)...
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Cohesity goes up the Amazon
Cohesity, a converger of...
NetApp blows filer benchmark to smithereens
All-flash NetApp filers have blown the SPEC SFS 2014 SW Build benchmark record to hell and gone.
A 4-node system scored 2,200 and an 8-node one 4,200 - 2.8 times...
Escaping the DRAM price trap: Storage Class Memory, what it is and why it...
In this article we explore Storage-Class-Memory (SCM) and explain why it is ready for enterprise IT big time in 2019.
Setting the scene
DRAM is the gold standard for storing...
Fujitsu gets cosy with Vexata
Vexata has plugged into a big enterprise sales channel in the USA and Canada via a deal with Fujitsu to resell its bleeding edge NVMe storage arrays.
The companies will jointly...
Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks
Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...
VAST Data claims one flash drive to rule all storage things
VAST Data quietly boasts it will change the enterprise storage game.
We say 'quietly', because the venture backed start-up is in stealth mode. But if you know where to look you...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Intel Optane-boosted cluster is giant whale in tiny benchmark puddle
Intel has chosen a small and under-populated benchmark performance pond in which to be a large price/performance fish.
The company has achieved a record price/performance on the IOmark VM benchmark...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
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