Analyst IDC: Is that a blip? Nope, it’s some actual external storage growth after...
IDC’s beancounters reported a small 1.7 per cent rise in enterprise external OEM storage systems revenues in 2021’s first quarter, to $6.7bn from $6.57bn the year before. But it...
StorONE’s SSD supply crisis survival guide
StorONE has announced there is a current and growing SSD supply crisis, caused by the pandemic and cryptocurrency mining and farming. It has a user survival strategy: use its...
NetApp goes all-in on hybrid cloud
NetApp appears to making hybrid cloud a core focus, having recently made a slew of product announcements including core storage products, Flexpod converged infrastructure, Keystone subscription...
Your occasional storage digest with TrendForce, NVM Express and Datto
Enterprise SSD prices are rising, the NVMe spec extends to SSD zones, key-value stores and disk drives, and Datto has pushed out software-only data protection security to its cloud...
Micron slings out super-speed gumstick SSDs
Micron has announced new and fast gumstick card SSDs using its newest 176-layer 3D NAND and NVMe across the PCIe Gen 4 bus, plus faster automobile NAND chips and...
‘Cloud world software’ firm NetApp reports Q4 growth, gains storage market share against Dell,...
NetApp’s latest results were higher than expected, “capping off a solid year of growth” in CEO George Kurian’s view, as NetApp gained storage market share against flat storage revenues...
Into the zone: Samsung launches its first zoned SSD at enterprises, hyperscalers
Samsung has announced its first zoned namespace SSD, the PM1731a, claiming up to four times greater endurance but supplying no performance information at all.
Normally suppliers parade their SSDs with...
Dell eyes up HCI rivals, adds compute, disaggregated storage, tools to VxRail hyperconverged systems
Dell Technologies has given its VxRail hyperconverged (HCI) systems faster processors to beef up compute performance. It has also added compute-only nodes and enhanced storage capacity with disaggregated...
HPE lifts earnings outlook: Storage finally returns to growth as overall revenues lift
HPE has reported earnings showing a Y/Y increase in overall revenues, as the edge, compute, HPC and storage segments all reported business increases. For the storage segment, it was...
Your occasional storage digest with TrendForce NAND figures and more than 25 other announcements
At opposite ends of the storage speed spectrum, IBM is withdrawing LT06 tape products and Phison has a fast PCIe Gen 4 SSD controller. Meanwhile, NAND revenues are growing...
A revenue tale of four storage cities: Pure, Nutanix, Dell and Snowflake
Four storage suppliers reported quarterly results, providing a return-to-growth or decline-stopping snapshot across the industry. They were all-flash array supplier Pure Storage, hyperconverged systems vendor Nutanix, broad-based systems incumbent...
Marvell launches first PCIe 5 SSD controller
Marvell has launched a flash controller using the PCIe gen 5.0 bus, four times faster than today’s mainstream PCIe gen 3 bus.
PCIe v3 operates at 8 gigatransfers/sec, translating to...