IBM upgrades guidance after revenue uptick
IBM reported third 2022 quarter revenues of $14.1 billion, up 6 percent annually, as its new mainframe cycle took off, pushing full year guidance a little higher. Big Blue’s...
Frozen in time: Gartner Magic quadrant for primary storage
The latest Gartner MQ for Primary Storage is pretty much the same as a year ago, which was pretty much the same as the year before that, and with...
Pliops unveils XDP-Rocks for RocksDB
Israeli startup Pliops has announced that its Extreme Data Processor (XDP) hardware running XDP-Rocks speeds RocksDB databases throughput by 20x and reduces tail latency by 100x.
The Pliops XDP is...
VAST Data chases zero trust, zero waste dragon
VAST Data has updated its storage filer OS, claiming it is laying the foundation for a zero trust and "zero waste" infrastructure.
It appears to be homing in on the...
Kioxia teases gumstick SSD with OCP compliance
Kioxia has announced OCP-compliant second-generation E1.S gumstick SSDs, but neglected to provide anything other than generic comparative performance data.
The datacenter-class XD7P products use fifth-generation BiCS flash with 112 layers...
Solidigm pushes out gaming gumstick SSD
SK hynix’s Solidigm business unit has launched the P44 Pro, a much faster M.2280 gumstick format SSD than the P41 Plus that landed a couple of months ago.
Update. Solidigm...
US export controls may cripple YMTC fabs
The Biden administration has initiated new technology export controls, which may well cripple China's domestic NAND producer YMTC.
China's NAND and DRAM production and development are being targeted as part...
Azure touts elasticated SAN service
Microsoft's Azure cloud is previewing an Elastic SAN service offering high-availability iSCSI-access block storage.
This storage instance is designed, Microsoft said, “for large scale IO-intensive workloads and top tier databases...
Smart IOPS packet-switching controller supercharges SSDs
Startup Smart IOPS has burst out from stealth mode with a line of enterprise-class PCIe 3 and 4 SSDs using its own controller chip that it says treats data blocks...
Infinidat ups capacity and cyber resiliency
Block array supplier Infinidat says a move to 20TB disk drives has enabled it to increase high-end system capacity by more than 70 percent and add more capacity for...
Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died
NVMe-over Fabrics storage array startup Pavilion Data has crashed.
Update. Co-founder Sundar Kanthadai's epitaph LinkedIn post added. Jan 1, 2023.
The news was released at an all-hands company meeting on October...
Storage news ticker – October 10
Cloud and backup storage vendor Backblaze has hired Robert Fitt as Chief Human Resources Officer, its first such position. He will lead the company’s strategic advancement for all HR...