Dell EMC all-flash array sales soar above NetApp (and everyone else)
Gartner number crunching shows Dell EMC is building a substantial all-flash array (AFA) revenue lead over NetApp. NetApp remains in second place in this market but Huawei and Pure...
FlashBlade is Pure Storage’s billion dollar babe
Pure Storage's beancounters say the company is close to surpassing $1bn sales revenue for its groundbreaking FlashBlade all-flash storage array.
The company this week said it gained several...
Need to store PBs of data? SSDs don’t cut the mustard, says Tosh HDD...
Hard drives remain indispensable, and predictions that SSDs will replace them in the enterprise are wrong. So says Rainer Kaese, a senior biz dev manager at Toshiba Storage Solutions....
Fast RAID rebuild StorONE preps Azure debut
StorONE is running a technology preview of its TRU S1 software installed on Azure.
The company chose Azure cloud over AWS because of customer demand, StorONE marketing head...
Your occasional storage digest with Liqid, Panzura and HPE GreenLake
Slurm sounds like a type of slurping or squirming but gives Liqid better access to the high-performance computing market. Panzura is adding ransomware detection to its cloud file system...
IDC: external storage revenues fell 2.1% in Q4, 2020
Worldwide revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 2.1 per cent Y/Y to $7.8bn in Q4 2020. The market for the full year 2020 fell 4 per cent.
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ScaleFlux computational storage drives better than vanilla SSDs at PostgreSQL
ScaleFlux’s computational storage drives have slightly better and much less variable multi-threaded performance on a PostgreSQL database application than ordinary SSDs. They also use up substantially less drive capacity...
Mayastor is fastest open source storage, Intel says. So where are the numbers?
Intel declares “OpenEBS Mayastor is the fastest open source storage for Kubernetes,” but the documentation lacks any details that could allow comparison with other Kubernetes storage products suchs ...
What do you see when you put container storage firms into the sorting triangle?
In this week's storage roundup we look at: container-attached storage; extracting, transforming and loading data into cloud data warehouses, and a fresh new take on the classic 4-box diagram....
Comparing Nvidia A100 GPU storage vendors is a pain
Analysis. An enterprise that is in the market to buy storage systems that attach to Nvidia's DGX A100 GPU systems will most likely conduct a supplier comparison exercise. Multiple...
Seagate competes with its OEMs through StorONE
Seagate is selling its Exos AP drive arrays through StorONE, a software-defined storage startup. This takes the company into direct competition with OEMs such as Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara,...
Equinix data centres offer Pure storage as a service
Pure Storage is opening a new front in the cloud edge storage market, with data centre operator Equinix offering Pure-as-a-Service to its customers.
Equinix has fitted out 18 data centres...