Your Irregular Storage Digest with Delphix, HTF Market Intelligence, Mimecast, and Korean fabbers
Here's the speed read version: Delphix has picked up a UK TV broadcaster as a customer; a somewhat limited cloud backup market report appears; Mimecast is losing its CFO;...
Tintri co-founders join DDN
Tintri co-founders Kieran Harty and Mark Gritter have joined DDN's Tintri business unit. Gritter assumes the CTO position while Harty has the more nebulous role of "full-time advisor".
In a...
Regarding Violin Systems and its race for All-Flash Array glory
Violin Systems has launched its latest VXS 8 all-flash array into what it calls the extreme performance all-flash array market.
Its a hot box with latency down to 50μs when...
Inspur joins SPC-1 benchmark league table
Chinese server and storage vendor Inspur has leapt into the SPC-1 benchmark rankings, beating a top-end IBM array with a much lower price/performance rating.
The SPC-1 benchmark tests a storage...
A quick run through Axellio’s iWARP all-flash Hyper-V HCI box
Axellio has jumped onto the hyperconverged train with the FabrixXpress edge-computing appliance, a software-defined "datacenter in a box" for enterprises and service providers to build on-premises and hybrid integration...
XtremIO gets Botox filler for competitive holes
XtremIO has had a Botox software release, filling up Nimble and SolidFire competitive holes in its offering.
It’s good to catch up with competition, even if it takes several years....
Micron becomes $30 billion company
With nine straight quarters of revenue and profits growth under its belt, Micron has become a $30bn revenue company and is on fire.
Fourth fiscal 2108 quarter revenues were $8.44n,...
Intel bumps up client Optane SSD capacities
Intel has added SSD 905P products to its Optanical garden, with capacities up to 1.5TB.
These client device SSDs more than triple the 480GB SSD 900 Optane SSD’s capacity -...
Restringed Violin to play new product tune
October 2, 2018 sees the private-equity-owned all-flash array survivor Violin Systems putting out its first major new product since exiting Chapter 11 in April 2017.
A webinar will announce “details...
How is Solidfire doing? Let’s find out
Analysis. Solidfire all-flash arrays had a $130.8m run rate in NetApp’s fiscal 2018 but the quarterly growth trend line is uneven.
Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers has estimated Solidfire...
Destroying data forever – you can do it. We can help, says Paragon Software
It’s the opposite of data protection: data destruction. Paragon Software’s Disk Wiper will completely and irrevocably delete data from solid state or disk drives, laughing at GDPR and supporting...
Vexata gets close to top price/performance slot on SPC-2 benchmark
Vexata, an NVMe flash array startup, has submitted its first product for the SPC-2 benchmarking and the results are... fifth best overall performance number and second-best price/performance rating.
The Storage Performance...