Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Pavilion Data, HPE, Supermicro and more
This week's enterprise storage round-up starts with NVMe-over-Fabric startup Pavilion Data is readying a big sales and marketing push, spending August 2019 VC money. And there are other items...
Kioxia fab fire update – two week hit to NAND flash production
Yesterday’s fire at Kioxia’s Fab 6 foundry in Japan could cause a two-week halt in production of NAND flash memory at the plant.
The fire broke out in a single...
Kioxia suffers flash fab fire – foundry makes 3-4% of world’s NAND memory
A fire at a Kioxia flash foundry in Japan on January 7 could affect output for the company and Western Digital, Kioxia's NAND chip partner.
According to a Google translated...
Hitachi Vantara targets solution sales with new army of consultants
Hitachi has completed the merger of Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting, first announced in September.
The company has grand plans for the enlarged Hitachi Vantara, which will focus on digital...
Seagate touts Lyve Drive Mobile System for business
Seagate unveiled the Lyve Drive Mobile System series of integrated and modular data storage drives, carriers and receivers for multi-stage workflow processes at CES 2020.
The aim is to capture...
Samsung’s Stellus Technologies emerges from stealth. Soon…
Samsung's Stellus Technologies is preparing to step out of stealth. Its LinkedIn entry states: "We are officially one month away from unveiling our revolutionary Native File System for unstructured...
Let’s start the New Year storage round-up with NAND passing the 3-digit layer count
Best wishes for the New Year, storage people. Let's kick it off with our first storage roundup in 2020.
Short items
Samsung suffered a power outage on New Year’s eve...
WD: Storage class memory will not replace DRAM or NAND
In our recent interview with Siva Sivaram, the Western Digital's president for technology and strategy discussed upcoming solid state storage technology. Let's begin with his thoughts on storage-class memory.
Storage-class...
Micron calls the bottom of the memory market
Micron thinks it has reached the bottom of the trough of over-supply affecting the industry and revenues will grow in coming quarters.
The memory and flash chip maker's Q1 fy2020...
Inspur spurs storage to go faster and store more
Inspur, the Chinese computer systems maker, has announced a dozen storage products - eight updated AS5000 hybrid and all-flash unified block and file arrays, three distributed systems and a...
Kaminario pilots single data plane across the clouds: Interview with CTO Eyal David
Kaminario is going full-tilt into hybrid, multi-clouds. The all-flash SAN array vendor wants to provide workload mobility between the on-premises and public cloud environments, Eyal David, Kaminario's CTO, told...
The three Cs of Actifio 10c: Clouds, containers and copy data
Actifio has released a major update of its eponymous copy data manager software.
Actifio 10c focuses on three 'Cs': cloud, containers and copy data. The company emphasises backup as...