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...
Micron set for $100b DRAM fab in New York
Micron will invest up to $100 billion over 20-plus years to build the largest DRAM fab in US history.
This megafab will be located in Clay, north of Syracuse, New...
Gartner: Flash array revenue to overtake HDD
According to Gartner, all-flash-array revenues will pass disk drive and hybrid array revenue next year and grow to 55 percent of all external storage revenues in 2026.
The research house...
Dremio data lakes can run on VAST Data storage
VAST Data has a partnership with Dremio enabling its lakehouse software to run on-premises, accessing data from VAST’s Universal Storage all-flash file and object array.
Dremio’s software runs in-memory and creates...