Your occasional storage digest featuring Huawei, InfiniteIO, Seagate, Spectrum Scale, StorONE and Tintri
Today is the opening day of the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas with wall-to-wall-and-back-again announcements. Before we dive in and get ‘Dell-ified’ here are a set of...
Intel mulls over making its own NAND
Intel may be losing interest in making NAND memory as it sees technology and manufacturing advantages ebb away in a price-slashing, commoditised market.
In an earnings call this week to...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Azure, Pure Storage, Datrium, Hitachi Vantura and more
Today has been a blockbuster blizzard for enterprise storage news. Blocks & Files will guide you through the day's events with this handy round-up. Let's start with Microsoft.
Azure moves...
Lightbits Labs enters all-flash array fray
Lightbits Labs has introduced the NVMe-connected SuperSSD all-flash array using its LightOS and LightField accelerating hardware cards.
The SuperSSD is hooked up to accessing servers across dual 100GbitE links and...
Micron skewers the SKUs with 9300 NVMe SSD refresh
Micron has used the launch of the 9300 to prune its NVME SSD line-up. More importantly, the drive outclasses the competition, according to our informal survey of products...
Dell and Cisco renew VxBlock wedding vows
Dell Technologies and Cisco have signed a multi-year extension to their VBlock partnership.
This is the converged infrastructure combo that integrates Dell EMC storage with Cisco UCS servers and Nexus...
Your Easter enterprise storage getaway
We have picked out four themes for you in our Easter enterprise storage roundup: flash arrays are taking over from disk arrays; backup to the cloud is booming,...
Rising All-Flash Array tide fails to lift Pure, IBM and HPE boats
The all-flash array storage market is growing strong and Dell and NetApp are the winners. It is far too soon to pick out the losers, but can the next...
IBM storage hardware revenues fall for third quarter in a row
IBM’s storage hardware business fell in the first quarter, with poor DS8000 sales and weak mid-range performance to blame.
Within IBM's overall Q1, FY2019 results, storage hardware revenues were down...
Sony PlayStation 5 jump cuts to SSD for faster gaming
Sony’s next-generation PlayStation gaming console will use a solid-state drive for faster game loading and play.
The current PlayStation 4 has a hard disk drive but struggles a little...
More storage river pointers to Cloud and Flash growth
Scanning the turbulent river that’s the storage market we can see four waves criss-crossing it this week that point to the strength of the cloud storage, flash replacing disk,...
StorPool, an Intel customer, runs slide rule over Optane DIMMs
Optane DIMM performance looks good for large databases and virtual machines (VMs) in memory mode and could be useful for metadata storage and write-back caching in app-direct mode. But...