Mid-range clustered Alletra 6000 supports more SAP HANA nodes than top-end 9000
HPE's Alletra array performance results have been revealed, with the top supported SAP HANA Node count rising from 64 for the clustered all-flash Nimble to 216 for the mid-range...
Backblaze discovers old truth: SSDs break less often than disks
Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has added SSD reliability stats to its longstanding disk drive reliability numbers and, what do you know? SSDs break almost an order of...
Alletra: First details on what’s in HPE’s new arrays
Analysis: Datasheet details have emerged about HPE's brand spanking new Alletra arrays, casting some light on the boxes and their contents but not shining it into every corner.
There are...
Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX
Dell today unveiled its APEX Data Storage Services at its virtual Dell Technologies World event, claiming to offer a consistent service across edge locations, private and public clouds, with...
Objectively good for lockdown? GigaOm updates object storage survey, puts out new high-performance object...
Analyst house GigaOm has updated its Radar screen survey of the object storage vendors with many suppliers grouped as they chase use cases where object storage is preferred over...
VAST Data valued at $3.7bn after $83m cash round
VAST Data has had a fourth funding round, raising $83m to hit a valuation of $3.7bn, a year after raising $100m at a $1.2bn valuation. It doesn't strictly...
Western Digital suffers data centre gloom, dip in revenues, but client devices save...
Disk and solid state drive maker Western Digital’s $4.1bn revenues declined 1 per cent year-on-year in its third fiscal 2021 quarter, ended April 2, as its data centre business...
IO, IO, off to Microsoft’s cloud we go: Excelero hits Azure
Excelero has made its scale-out NVMe-oF array software available on Azure.
NVMe-oF (NVMe-over-Fabric) extends a server’s PCIe/NVMe protocol across network links. This means a server application can access remote flash...
Intel teases short-ruler Optane drive with speed boost and NAND SSD to OCP
Intel is set to increase the speed of its Optane P5800X drive and label it the P5801X. And it's also working on the D7-P5520 NAND SSD.
Both the P5801X and...
StorFaster? Quantum converges StorNext metadata controllers onto faster storage server
Quantum has introduced StorNext H4000, a more powerful hybrid flash/disk appliance that does away with the need for separate metadata controllers and client access nodes by using faster controllers.
StorNext...
Samsung now shipping samples of speedy SAS SSD
Samsung has re-implemented its 2016-era PM1643 SAS SSD as the PM1653
IBM builds containerised version of Spectrum Scale
IBM is launching a containerised derivative of its Spectrum Scale parallel file system called Spectrum Fusion, as well as delivering new ESS 3200 Elastic Storage System storage array and...