Samsung outlines QLC and Z-SSD roadmap
Samsung has been slow to develop QLC (4bits/cell) SSD products, compared with Intel and Micron. But it appears to be catching up, judging by a roadmap unrolled at its...
DDN completes clean SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark sweep
DDN has submitted a winning VDA workload benchmark in the SPEC SFS 2014 performance suite.
The SPEC SFS2014 benchmark tests filer performance. Earlier this month DDN submitted four SPEC SFS...
Flash glut hits Western Digital in the gut
Western Digital execs blamed declining flash prices and demand for a three per cent drop in Q1 2019 revenues.
And they expect it to get much worse, forecasting a 19...
Channel whispers: Micron preps 2200 SSD launch
Boston, the UK server and storage integrator, has invited its channel partners to a briefing on Micron's 2200 SSD.
It looks like a new product line is in the...
Komprise customers granted more cold data storage options
Komprise, the purveyor of file lifecycle management software, has increased the number of cold storage destinations for ageing files and added NetApp Cloud Volumes support.
Komprise Intelligent Data Management 2.9 can...
NFLEX genuflects to SAP
Fujitsu and NetApp have gained the SAP seal of approval for their joint NFLEX converged system.
NFLEX is similar in concept to the Dell EMC-Cisco VxBlocks and the set-up features...
Burlywood gets flash with NVMe
Burlywood has added NVMe protocol support for its customisable SSD controller software. And it is easy to see why.
As Tod Earhart, founder and CEO of the flash controller start-up, said, in...
Fujitsu preps NVMe storage line
Fujitsu this week launched the ETERNUS DX89000 high-end array (tune in here for my write-up).
I was struck by the absence of NVMe drive and NVMe-oF fabric interconnect support - apart from a couple...
Intel bakes Optane DIMM support into Cascade Lake AP
Intel today announced its Cascade Lake Advanced Performance AP Xeon processor with Optane memory support.
The high-end server chip ships at the end of the year and is generally available...
Stealth startup Pliops unveils plans for storage processor
Pliops has emerged from stealth mode to herald its ambition to develop “the next generation NAND flash Storage Processors”. These are intended for use in disaggregated and hyperconverged storage and database...
Making light of Quantum storage in the ultra-cold atom cloud
Quantum computing inched a little closer with a demonstration of quantum memory using light pulses stored in a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium atoms.
The light pulses, which can scale down...
To INFINIBOX and beyond! Infinidat preps NVMe-oF upgrade for high-end array
Infinidat looks set to add ultra-fast NVMe-over-Fabrics access to its INFINIBOX arrays.
The company has not gone public yet but a source tells me that it demonstrated NVMe-over-Fabrics access to...