Public cloud hits the spot for NetApp’s Q122 results
NetApp grew its revenues 12 per cent year-on-year to $1.46 billion in its first fiscal 2022 quarter, ended July 30, and near the high end of its guidance, with...
PowerMax decline drives Dell storage revenue downwards
Although Dell Technologies announced a more than healthy 15 per cent rise year-on-year in its second fiscal quarter revenues, storage let the side down with a one per cent...
Pure breaches the hyperscaler disk wall
Pure Storage’s revenues grew 23 per cent year-over-year in its its latest quarter and it expects a growth acceleration next quarter, with an eight-figure hyperscaler deal and the COVID...
Western Digital does the wrong write thing — again
Comment. Western Digital has done it a second time, and treated buyers of its storage drives with … well, what? Disregard? Disdain? How would you describe the near silent...
Your occasional storage digest with Arcserve, new JEDEC specs, Cloudian, and more
This week’s digest includes acquisitions, a new small form factor removable flash standard from JEDEC, plus 2Q21 NAND flash revenues from TrendForce.
Arcserve’s StorageCraft backup service gets more affordable
Arcserve has...
Western Digital closing in on merger with Kioxia
Disk drive and SSD maker Western Digital is said to be in advanced merger talks with Kioxia, in a deal that may close as soon as mid-September.
The news comes...
SK hynix’s Golden P31 SSD appears, with doubled capacity
SK Hynix has doubled the capacity of its Gold P31 NVMe gumstick SSD by using terabit dies instead of the original 512-gigabit ones.
The dies use 128-layer TLC (3bits/cell) flash...
Inspur goes world record SPC-1 benchmarking in the Optanical garden
A clustered 16-controller Inspur storage array system using Optane and NVMe SSDs has set an SPC-1 performance world record, overtaking Huawei.
The Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark tests the performance...
Intel sees CXL as rack-level disaggregator with Optane connectivity
Intel foresees the CXL bus enabling rack-level disaggregation of compute, memory, accelerators storage and network processors, with persistent memory on the CXL bus as well.
This was revealed when Intel...
Lenovo claims global number-2 position in mainstream storage
Server and OC manufacturer Lenovo says it has secured the second-place ranking in worldwide mainstream storage supply. Has it really?
The claim was made during the company’s first fiscal 2022...
Etoro takes the Silk road to Azure
Silk’s accelerated storage IO in the public cloud can make lifting and shifting non-cloud-native databases and other workloads to the cloud straightforward, and have them operate much faster and...
Weekly digest of storage news featuring IBM, Dell, Box, Toshiba, NVIDIA and Kioxia plus...
The themes this week are containers, flash, flash arrays, enterprise file-based collaboration and disk drives. Everything seems to be selling more, growing more, shipping more, developing more — except...