Storage news ticker – May 20
Scale-out file system supplier Qumulo is giving away a free petabyte of storage as part of its Cloud Now program. It offers the rapid deployment of up to a...
SK hynix lays claim to fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD
SK hynix has released the Platinum P41 PCIe 4.0 SSD amid claims of unmatched speeds and reliability.
The M.2 gumstick format device was first announced in January. It has 500GB, 1TB, and...
Storage news ticker – May 18
Cloud and backup storage service provider Backblaze has announced an improved channel program. It will drive joint marketing activities, provide co-branded collateral, and establish market development funds to drive...
IBM launches ESS Spectrum Scale box optimized for AI
IBM has introduced a 3500 model to its Spectrum Scale Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) portfolio with a faster controller CPU and more throughput – up to 91GB/sec sequential read.
The...
Dell lifts lid on computational storage work
Dell says it is working with industry standards groups and partners to evolve computational storage technologies and deliver “integrated solutions for customers.”
Gaurav Chawla of Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and...
Veritas chases public cloud and IoT edge with retooled NetBackup
Veritas thinks the public cloud and growing IoT edge are where it can increase its data protection market share using re-engineered software and AI-enhanced operations.
This long-lived enterprise data protection...
Gartner: Enterprise SSDs will hit 35% of HDD/SSD exabytes shipped by 2026
In four years' time over 95 percent of shipped hard disk drives will be high-capacity nearline 3.5-inch drives, and SSDs will outstrip the "other disk drive" categories, including notebook,...
Micron reveals flash roadmap to 500+ layer 3D NAND
Micron has 232-layer 3D NAND in development and a roadmap out to 500-plus layers.
3D NAND is manufactured by layering groups of cells atop each other in a vertical stack....
Western Digital: The flash roadmap
Western Digital execs revealed its disk and flash/SSD roadmaps at a May 10 Investor Day event. We covered the disk part of this in a previous article. Here we...
Pure uses Snowflake to get FlashBlade up close and cloud-adjacent with customers’ co-los
Pure Storage and Snowflake are arranging for Snowflake compute to access and analyze data stored in FlashBlade file+object boxes based in fast access, cloud-adjacent co-los like Equinix datacenters.
Snowflake’s cloud...
Storage news ticker – 11 May
Aerospike has announced GA of Aerospike Database 6 (AD6), a fresh release of the core engine that powers Aerospike’s Real-time Data Platform. It has native support for JSON document...
NetApp E-Series storage certified for Nvidia SuperPod
NetApp has organized its E-Series hardware with BeeGFS software to be certified with Nvidia’s SuperPod AI powerhouse.
The all-flash EF600/BeeGFS combo has been certified for use with the DGX...