Phison PCIe gen 4 SSD is faster than Optane SSD
Phison is showcasing an unreleased PCIe 4.0 controller CES 2021 that is faster than Intel's P5800X Optane SSD.
Update: PCIe Gen 4 bus saturation point added. 12 Jan 2021.
The Taiwanese...
Your occasional storage digest with Cisco Hyperflex, SoftIron, and more
2021 has started with a bang... but let's talk about data storage. In this week's news roundup we feature Cisco, Backup Assist and SoftIron. Also there are a flurry...
Western Digital settles gender bias class action for $7.75m
Final approval has been granted to a Western Digital settlement of a class action lawsuit, which accused the company of underpaying female staff and discriminating against them in pay,...
Handbags at dawn for Pure and NetApp: Who you calling a ‘legacy vendor’?
Pure Storage is a struggling legacy vendor while NetApp is powering ahead. So says NetApp in a corporate blog entitled Will the real legacy storage vendor please stand...
Analytics startups Dremio, Starburst and Firebolt draw in dollops of dollars
Data analytics startup Dremio has raised $135m in a D series, taking total funding to $250m, and achieving unicorn status ($1bn+ valuation). Competitor unicorn startup Starburst has pulled in...
SPUs, Arm CPUs and FPGAs: SoftIron talks hardware acceleration
SoftIron, the startup storage supplier, use Arm processors instead of x86 CPUs for controllers in its Ceph-based HyperDrive. This provides scale-out storage nodes behind a storage router front-end...
Incremental storage media density magic meant flash chipped away at disk in 2020
All storage media technologies saw increased density in 2020 - tape, disk, flash, persistent memory and even DNA. However QLC flash advances meant the nearline disk bastion is...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Brexit, Tsinghua Unigroup and more
Brexit, China, the cloud and 3D NAND are the main themes in this week's digest. We also have a multitude of smaller items, including a large customer going all-in...
Intel says SSDs will reach HDD TCO crossover in 2022, pushes PLC and new...
Intel says SSDs will reach total cost of ownership crossover with hard disk drives in 2022. It's also launching new SSDs, and sees PLC – that's five bits per...
Your occasional storage digest with DataStax, StorOne, NAND prices and more
Here is a near-final storage digest for 2020 with news from NoSQL-er DataStax, fast Optane and QLC NAND storage array supplier StorOne. and research business TrendForce on forecasted...
DDN reveals VMstore and Intelliflash updates for 2021
High performance computing and enterprise needs are converging, according to DDN, which is developing technology in response.
In a press briefing this week, the HPC storage veteran gave us a...
IBM external storage sales plummet in Q3. HPE and Huawei do better
IBM's enterprise external storage revenues tumbled 21.6 per cent in the third quarter while HPE and Huawei outgrew an anaemic market. However, there is a helluva long way to...