Uber takes the fast lane with Alluxio
Uber is using Alluxio’s virtual distributed file system to speed its Hadoop-based analytics processing by caching hot read data.
Alluxio has developed open source data store virtualization software, a virtual distributed...
Gartner unveils hottest storage trends for 2023
Gartner reckons the top enterprise storage trends for 2023 include cloud operating models, new SSD technologies, cyber security against ransomware, and better use of unstructured data for analytical insights.
We...
Storage news ticker – September 7
Airbyte has announced an integration with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. It gives customers the ability to monitor and analyze data pipelines with reporting of...
Lenovo storage man talks market share, all-flash and more
B&F caught up with Marco Pozzoni, EMEA Storage Sales Director for Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, about Lenovo’s moves in the storage sector. He was hired from NetApp, where he...
Huawei adds 5-in-1 scale-out all-flash array to portfolio
Huawei has launched a new all-flash OceanStor Pacific array, the 9920, and revealed some details of its compression and ransomware recovery.
The China-based megacorp competes with the big guns of...
Storage news ticker – September 4
MediaFlux supplier Arcitecta has announced Scale-Out ZFS with Mediaflux, which it reckons "overcomes the scalability limitations of traditional scale-up ZFS systems and empowers customers to handle exponential data growth...
Dell Q2 revenues better than expected, sees AI everywhere
Dell reported revenues in the second quarter ended August 4 of $22.9 billion, 13 percent less than a year ago, with a net income of $455 million, 10 percent...
Infinidat data protection box bumps up restore speed with Veeam
Infinidat is claiming its data protection system can restore data at 28TB a second, yes, terabytes a second, which would far outpace competing systems.
Update: ExaGrid points added. 4 Sep...
Pure Storage revenues bounce back in Q2
In spite of a revenue decline in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, Pure has bounced back with positive growth in its second quarter.
Update. Dell storage decline corrected to...
HPE storage biz holds its own against rivals
HPE showed its storage business doing proportionally better in the third quarter than its main competitors who all saw worse revenue declines.
Update: Pure results on Aug 30 showed 6...
Huawei OceanStor A310 feeds Nvidia GPUs at speed
The latest OceanStor all-flash array from Huawei is set to feed Nvidia GPUs almost four times faster than the current top-rated system, IBM’s ESS 3500on a per-rack unit basis.
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A deeper look at high-end storage challenges and opportunities: No more tiers, cries storage...
Interview Here is the second part of our interview with Mainline Information Systems storage architect Rob Young, following part 1. We talked about proprietary vs standard SSD formats, high-speed...