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...
Samsung: Drive writes per day is not where SSD endurance is at
Samsung thinks drive writes per day (DWPD) is no longer fit for purpose as a useful measure of SSD endurance - in other words how long the SSD lasts...
Dell EMC’s Trident reveals a glimpse into unified mid-range storage project
Dell EMC is unifying its mid-range storage product around a single new platform, potentially called PowerStorage, based on XtremIO, with the internal codename Trident.
Dell EMC has revealed a little...
Dell EMC builds PowerProtect data protection platform
Dell Technologies World Dell EMC today announced new PowerProtect data protection hardware and software, along with an entry-level DP440 integrated data protection appliance.
In our opinion, PowerProtect has emerged as...
Dell EMC Isilon scale-out NAS clusters get performance, size and capacity boost
Dell Technologies World Dell EMC has added an Isilon H5600 general scale-out file storage cluster node, using a mix of SSDs and disk drives. It comes with a new...
Dell EMC upgrades Unity mid-range storage arrays
Dell Technologies World Dell EMC’s new Unity XT arrays add drives, memory and CPU power, with the hybrid models getting a stronger upgrade punch than their all flash cousins.
Unity...
Western Digital hit by weak demand and excess inventory
Western Digital was hit by weak disk drive demand and over-supply-induced flash price cuts in its third fiscal 2019 quarter. When will things improve for the flash, SSD and...