Scality claims disk drives can use less electricity than high-density SSDs
Scality analysts have said that, in some use cases, disk drives can use less power than SSDs – specifically when compared with high-density SSDs when the storage is in active...
Xinnor RAIDs Kioxia datacenter SSDs for performance
xiRAID dev Xinnor says its software can efficiently manage a suite of Kioxia CM7 datacenter SSDs, claiming to achieve over 70 percent of their top sequential read speed in...
Toshiba: $14B buyout offer led by Japanese businesses is go
Publicly owned Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, which makes disk drives and has a stake in Kioxia, is attempting to take itself private via a $14 billion ( ¥2 trillion) buyout...
Kioxia speeds up in datacenter SSD refresh
Kioxia has launched a high-speed PCIe 5 data center SSD, the CD8P, which is significantly faster than its existing DC product, the CD8, and has double the stated capacity.
Both...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
VAST reveals AI data platform vision and new database
VAST Data is announcing new AI database software as part of its upcoming mega data platform, revealing how data storage and the database itself have been converged into...
Infinidat reckons it’s bucked storage array sales downturn trend
High-end array supplier Infinidat says bookings bounced 29 percent year-over-year during the first six months of 2023.
The company sells InfiniBox storage arrays with a memory-caching capability that it says...
Flickers of light appear at the end of Western Digital’s tunnel
Western Digital experienced another quarter of depressed revenues but saw signs of an uplift in its client and consumer businesses.
The company has two divisions: hard disk drives and SSDs...
Storage system speed serving data to Nvidia GPUs
Analysis: With Dell’s PowerScale scale-out filer being included in the company’s generative AI announcement this week, we looked at how it and other storage systems compare when using Nvidia's...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
DDN says generative AI/ML work needs balanced read/write IO mix
Analysis: DDN says storage for generative AI and other AI work needs a balance of read and write speed, claiming its own storage provides the best balance because of...
Micron sets high bandwidth memory benchmark
Micron is sampling a 25GB high bandwidth memory product made from a stack of 8 smaller chips, just months after SK hynix’s 24GB, 12-high stack. The company also said...