Pensando recruits NetApp as acceleration chip customer
Accelerator card startup Pensando Systems emerged from stealth this month, announcing it had raised $278m in three rounds since its inception in 2017. What has gotten investors so fired...
Western Digital goes purple in 14TB range rampage
Western Digital has introduced a 14TB video surveillance drive, accompanied by a 512GB microSD card, to the Purple line.
for WD, 'Purple' signifies video surveillance media and this is an...
NetApp launches all flash object storage and more active ONTAP arrays
Las Vegas NetApp today pumped out a big hardware release centred on flash object and SAN storage with hybrid disk array action.
At NetApp Insight, the company also announced ...
Western Digital gets NASty with disk capacity bump and sees Red with first NAS...
Western Digital has uprated the Red line of NAS drives to 14TB capacity, included a 1TB 2.5-inch mini Red and added a Red SSD as a NAS flash cache.
The...
Micron pumps out cheaper, smaller NVMe SSD
Micron has broadened its data centre SSD range, moving the 9300 NVMe SSD technology down market, and adding a gumstick form factor. It has also replaced the 5200 SATA...
IBM parades ESS 3000 appliance in Big Storage Day Out
Twice a year IBM blitzes out a bunch of storage hardware releases. Today was once of the twice.
The information overload is overwhelming but IBM's main messages for today's announcements...
Porsche gains Synergy in drive to HPE GreenLake
Spot the odd ones out: Carrera, Cayman, Boxster, Macan, Cayenne, Synergy, GreenLake. Easy; Synergy and GreenLake aren’t Porsche cars - but they are being used by Porsche’s in-house IT...
Storage growth eludes IBM as revenues slide again
A look at storage systems’ progress in IBM’s third quarter shows continuing long-term decline but expect a mainframe-led pickup next quarter.
IBM's overall results were examined by our sister publication...
Concerning the mistaken belief that key value databases chew up SSDs
Blog: There is a misguided notion that key value databases are unfriendly to SSDs. That's because unattended compaction layers on SSDs can shorten the SSD’s life.
You might think that key...
How key value databases shorten the lifespan of SSDs
Explainer Organising a key value database for fast reads and writes can lower an SSD's working life. This is how.
Key value database
A relational database stores data records organised...
OpenIO ‘solves’ the problem with object storage hyperscalability
OpenIO, a French startup, is claimed the speed record for serving object data - blasting past one terabits-per-second to match high end SAN array performance.
Object storage manages data as...
Your occasional storage digest, including Cohesity, SIOS and SAP
Cohesity grows nicely, SAP heads for the cloud and SIOS can save SAP in the cloud from disaster. Read on.
Cohesity has cracking fy 2019
Secondary storage converger Cohesity claimed a...