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...
Hitachi Vantara plots aggressive price setting for new midrange storage arrays
Hitachi Vantara has plumped up the VSP E series arrays with two midrange additions at "aggressive price points", plus a NAS gateway and a managed service.
Update: E790 and...
SK hynix joins 176-layer flash game
Anything Micron can do SK hynix thinks it can do better. And so the company has announced its own 176-layer 3D NAND technology, sending 512Gbit TLC (3bits/cell) die samples...
Your occasional storage digest with GigaSpaces, Virtana and NAND ship data
In this week’s digest we peek into in-memory technology, then look at application performance management in a hybrid and multi-cloud world and then present you with some NAND shipment...
Lenovo boosts low end all-flash array with end-to-end NVMe
Lenovo has juiced up its entry level all-flash array with NVMe SSDs, NVMe/FC access and faster Fibre Channel support. The company said the new ThinkSystems DM5100F array is suitable...