Baffled by block storage choices? Read this!
A new report from research outfit Gigaom aims to help enterprises focus on the key factors in order to make the right decision when investing in storage systems.
Prospective buyers...
SSD revenue down but shipments up for the first quarter
The latest SSD market figures from IDC show that Samsung continues to be the leading supplier, but that revenue is down sharply against last year while shipments have increased,...
Dell Q1 revenues up but servers and storage sales are down
Dell posted $21.9bn revenues for the first fiscal 2020 quarter up three per cent on last year, and net income $329m (-$538m). However storage revenues fell a little and...
Gigabyte’s furiously fast PCIe 4 SSD blows Optane away
Gigabyte has announced an Aorus PCIe v4 SSD that streams data at 5GB/sec, faster than an Optane gumstick drive.
The gumstick card M.2 2280 drive uses 96-layer 3D NAND from...
Toshiba crams 2TB into XG6 gumstick flash card
Toshiba has announced the -P version of its XG6 M.2 gumstick flash drive with doubled capacity and faster streaming write performance than its XG5-P predecessor.
The XG6-P has 2TB of...
Toshiba Memory Corp to buy out Apple, Dell, Kingston and Seagate
Flash chip builder Toshiba Memory Corp. is buying out its US corporate shareholders, all customers who helped the company out last year.
In June 2018 financially-troubled Toshiba sold its Toshiba...
Everspinning IBM U.2 flash drives use MRAM write caching
IBM is using embedded Everspin MRAM to increase the capacity of its proprietary flash drives used in its Storwize and FlashSystem arrays.
Everspin CEO Kevin Conley said during an earnings...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Micron, SK Hynix, Swiftstack and Dropbox
Some enterprise storage snippets for your delectation, filleted for ease of digestion. Let's start with Dropbox.
Dropbox puts cold data in a Magic Pocket
Dropbox has added cold storage to Magic...
NetApp adds end-to-end NVMe to mid-range storage array
A busy day yesterday for NetApp, which launched a mid-range all-flash array with end-to-end NVMe access, pushed out an ONTAP software update and introduced three support services.
The AFF (All-Flash...
No Dell, our storage array is faster than yours – Infinidat
Infinidat today boasted it makes the fastest SAN array with the lowest latency and can prove it - albeit with its own test results.
The high-end array vendor used the...
Nutanix ushers its software onto AWS
.NEXT 2019 Nutanix is moving into the hybrid cloud world in a big way by making its software available on AWS.
Customers can launch Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS within their...
Infinidat arrays go faster, play nice in hybrid clouds
Infinidat, the high-end array maker, today launched subscription programs, software with enhanced performance, extended array connectivity, and cloud-delivered array monitoring and analysis.
The company also signalled its intention to...