Your occasional storage digest with a ZB of shipped disk capacity, petabyte flash Dell...
A zettabyte of disk capacity shipped in 2020. A 2U Dell server can have over a petabyte of Nimbus Data flash. And GigaSpaces in-memory apps can use less space...
Pure Storage FlashBlade goes to work with Azure Stack
Gridpro, a Swedish cloud management software vendor, has integrated Pure Storage’s unified file and object FlashBlade array with Azure stack.
Gridpro is the developer of EvOps, a software technology that...
IBM’s got a brand new pizza box – an entry-level FlashSystem
IBM has launched the pizza box-sized FlashSystem 5200, its most compact storage system to date. The company has further updated the 5000 line with new 5015 and 5035 systems...
HPE servers gain SSD performance ‘at 10k HDD price points’
HPE has announced the Very Read-Optimised SSD replacement option for SATA-connected disk drives in Apollo, ProLiant and Synergy servers. The 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch VRO SSDs are plug-in replacements for...
Hard drives are doomed? You must be joking, Infinidat retorts
Yesterday we reported VAST Data's Howard Marks's argument that hard drives are IO disks are IO sluggards, caching doesn’t work, and overall all-QLC flash array costs are the same...
Big disk drives are IO sluggards at scale – VAST Data
Disk drive IO limitations will cripple the use of larger disk drives in petabyte-scale data stores, according to VAST Data's Howard Marks, who says Flash is the only way...
Hyperscalers demand tape, Quantum happy to oblige
Quantum’s third fiscal 2021 quarter revenues ended December 31 were $98m, down 5.1 per cent and net income was -$2.7m, down from $4.7m. But Chairman and CEO Jamie Lerner...
This week in storage with HPE, Qumulo, and another K8s data protection startup
This week, HPE announced it has sold a neat Qumulo system on its Apollo server for image processing, and Replix emerged from stealth as a containerised app data protector....
Western Digital has a very good Q2… but enterprise?
Western Digital's Q2 revenues out-stripped expectations on the back of strong client-side and retail sales for disk drives and flash device. Yesterday's earnings announcement saw the company's stock jump...
Dell’s VxRail is an EPYC story in the works
Dell Technologies has spruced up the VxRail hyperconverged line-up with AMD EPYC processor options brought in to P Series performance-intensive configurations.
The new all-flash P675F and hybrid flash-disk P675N have...
Quantum upgrades hybrid storage appliance
Quantum has refreshed its hybrid storage appliance line-up with the H2000 giving the new range higher-capacity drives and faster connectivity than its predecessor.
Quantum said the HS2000 marks a significant...
Qumulo helps drive Covid-19 pandemic modelling scenarios
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is using scale-out Qumulo filers and 18TB Western Digital drives, to aid Covid-19 research.
Based at the University of Washington,...