Full speed ahead — VMware adds support for NVMe/TCP and Optane persistent memory snapshots
VMware has updated vSphere and vSAN to provide faster storage networking, better Optane support, more cloud-native features, simplified operations and better vSAN resilience and security in an Update 3...
Pure scales out with availability zones, automated and active storage management, and database deployment
Pure Storage has added greatly increased scale-out for its arrays with clusters in availability zones, and added cloud-like storage resource consumption and management, as well as automated database deployment services for containerised apps.
Your occasional storage digest with Elastic, MemVerge, an amazing funding round, and more
There’s a strong focus on data querying and analysis in this week’s digest. Data querying has been improved by Elastic enhancing its search products. A US research institute is...
More bang for your enterprise storage buck with parsimonious StorONE and Seagate
StorONE’s software and Seagate’s 84-slot drive chassis make a low-cost, high-capacity storage array with enterprise features which is available as a bundle.
The chassis is Seagate’s five rack unit Exos AP...
Japanese government minister gives mini-nod to WD-Kioxia merger
A Japanese governing party politician has said that a WD-Kioxia merger would provide desirable mass scale and should have at the very least “equal bases of operations in both...
Your occasional storage digest with Rewind, Satori, a Snowflake quadfecta, benchmark bifecta and more
There’s a mini-blizzard of Snowflake news — a quadfecta in fact — plus two startups raising cash, Rewind for SaaS application service backup, and Satori for its secure real-time...
Tintri products refreshed with DDN controllers
DDN-owned Tintri has updated its IntelliFlash all-flash N-Series and hybrid flash/disk H-Series arrays, adding DDN fault-tolerant controllers while reducing the effective capacity levels of the H-Series. This continues its...
Dell EMC Isilon PowerScalisation — new models, ransomware protection and faster backup
Dell EMC has added new hybrid and archive nodes to its PowerScale filer range, provided ransomware protection services and accelerated PowerScale backup and restores. There are four new hardware...
Kioxia announces Optane-class SSD
Kioxia has announced it’s sample shipping an FL6 storage-class memory SSD built with its XL-Flash NAND technology.
Update: Kioxia supplied FL6 performance data. 15 Sep 2021.
This news has been a...
iPhone 13 to get terabyte of storage, putting video cameras on notice
Apple’s iPhone 13, expected to be launched at the company’s California Streaming event on September 14, might have up to a terabyte of storage.
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said as...
Your occasional storage buffet, with Commvault, NetApp, Lenovo and SingleStore plus accompanying tidbits
Commvault is offering anti-ransomware services to its customers. NetApp wants a billion dollars a year in recurring revenue from the public cloud. Lenovo wants to offer all its products...
Same old, same old — IDC Q2 2021 Storage Tracker
IDC’s latest quarterly external storage market tracker shows a great year-on-year advance by Huawei, and a tremendous fall by IBM — but, really, nothing much has changed at all.
The...