Dell updates Isilon with PowerScale label, fresh hardware and other tweaks
Dell has updated its Isilon scale-out filers with new PowerScale branding and products as well as S3 object access and a DataIQ data analytics feature.
PowerScale is the brand that...
Kioxia releases faster SAS SDD – the 24gig PM6
Update; June 17 - SAS roadmap and performance data added.
Although the NVMe interface is set to rule the fast SSD interface roost, Kioxia has released a PM6 gen 4...
DDN gives itself a new logo
DDN, the veteran high performance computing storage vendor that recently bought several enterprise storage businesses, has had a makeover.
Here is its new logo:
And this is what the company...
Intel launches gen 2 Optane DIMMs
Intel has announced second generation Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs with the same capacity as gen 1 but faster IO. The company has also launched new SSDs.
Intel said the PMEM...
Clouds part, soon-to-decloak startup Nebulon’s plans emerge: to start with, hardware-assisted storage
Update: No QLC, no GPU. June 24, 2020
Storage startup Nebulon plans to come out of stealth on Wednesday with a hardware-assisted, scale-out, all-flash storage array featuring real-time AI Ops...
NAND here’s your storage digest, featuring Samsung, Pavilion Data and more
We start off today’s roundup with news about Samsung facing production problems with its 128-layer 3D NAND. We also take a look at a Sony business using a fast...
Let the SAN shine: Nebulon drops cloak, reveals DPU-enhanced, cloud-managed server SAN
Startup Nebulon has come out of stealth to reveal scale-out, on-premises, server SAN, block-based storage using commodity X86 servers bolstered with storage processing offload cards, along with ...
SmartX produces Optane DIMM DAX cached hyperconverged system
SmartX has announced what is probably the fastest hyperconverged infrastructure appliance in the world, if the speeds it has reported are verified.
The Chinese hyperconverged vendor has launched a Halo...
WD launches 24-slot dragster NVMe-oF box
Update. Read/write bandwidth and latency numbers added. 25 June 2020.
WD has built a faster NVMe SSD and populated an OpenFlex NVMe-oF composable JBOF enclosure with 24 of them to...
Dell EMC rebrands VxFlex to PowerFlex, adds async rep, DR and safe snapshots
Dell EMC has confirmed PowerFlex as the new name for its scale-out, multi-hypervisor, virtual SAN and HCI VxFlex product set, and added data safety features to the OS.
PowerFlex, sold...
Intel ruler SSD sneaks out into the wild
Intel watchers at Tom’s Hardware have picked up a DC P4510 ruler-format drive available from an online Etailer.
Intel’s DC P4510 is a U.2 (2.5-inch) data centre SSD with a...
Live and let die: increasing capacity in the flash industry
Wells Fargo financial analyst Joe Quatrochi has issued a note to subscribers describing the state of capacity increase play in the NAND industry. He’s interested because investors are curious...