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...
Irish university buys StorONE array from recycled hardware supplier
Who knew you can build a storage array using recycled hardware? Apparently the University of Limerick has bought one from Wisetek with previously-used hardware and StorONE software.
Cork-based Wisetek built...
Qumulo follows Silk and VAST Data — exits hardware business
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo is exiting the hardware business, adding Supermicro to its hardware supply partners, and betting its SW will lift its business to success.
After supplying combined hardware...
Your occasional storage digest with Ahana, Egnyte, FalconStor and Netlist, Varada and a tad...
A data lake analytics startup springs on to the stage with a fast funding round following its founding (nice alliteration — Ed). Ransomware attackers love architecture, engineering and construction...