IBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
Analyst house DCIG has produced a list of the biggest market movers and shakers in the world of high-end arrays, yet it doesn't include IBM or HPE branded products,...
Storage news roundup – February 8
Data analytics startup Blockfenders is today announcing a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round from a range of institutional and angel investors. It’s developing software to help IT and data...
Lenovo becomes global WEKA reseller and integrator
Server system supplier Lenovo is partnering WEKA to resell its file services software integrated with ThinkSystem servers into high performance AI and analytics workloads for the finance, genomics, life...
NetApp adds quad-level cell arrays to AFF range
NetApp has added a more affordable C-Series to its AFF (All-Flash FAS) series of ONTAP arrays, using quad-level cell (QLC) NAND instead of the TLC found throughout the existing...
Infinidat the front runner for enterprise storage innovation, says GigaOm
A GigaOm Radar chart is classifying Infinidat as the leading supplier of innovative primary storage to enterprises, with NetApp heading up the balanced innovation-platform play area.
Analysts Max Mortillaro and...
Samsung investigating issues with 990 Pro SSDs
Samsung is probing reported problems with 990 Pro SSDs, whose owners have claimed the drives’ health status shows alarmingly fast drops in reported capacity even though only small amounts...
Western Digital revenue misery continues
Western Digital has reported a drop in revenue of 36 percent annually for the second quarter of the dirve maker's FY23, surpassing its Q1 fall of 26 percent. It’s...
Storage news roundup – January 31
Cyber security and backup storage supplier Acronis has announced a three-year partnership with London's oldest professional football club, Fulham FC. Acronis will provide Fulham with a suite of cyber...
NetApp wages ONTAP war on Dell and Pure
NetApp is presenting itself as the leading storage innovator compared to Dell and Pure Storage, with charts showing them lagging behind on 22 out of 25 innovations.
It's put forward...
A Western Digital, Kioxia merger? There would be pain points
Comment Against reports of a nearing merger of Western Digital and Kioxia, B&F is reviewing the implications and some of the difficulties that could lie ahead in such a deal.
The...
Pure’s full portfolio-selling sales force
Pure Storage reckons that its sales org should sell the entire product portfolio in its fiscal 2024 and thereby increase their reach.
Update: Email author corrected to Dan FitzSimons, Chief...
Dell OneFS 9.5 is a streamer screamer
OneFS 9.5, the latest PowerScale OS version, provides a claimed 55 percent in streaming data access speed plus cyber resiliency improvements.
PowerScale and the prior Isilon scale-out filers are powered...