Liqid and Broadcom deliver PCIe 4.0 CI developer kit
Composable infrastructure firm Liqid has produce a reference design kit with Broadcom for solutions that use PCIe 4.0 fabric for connectivity.
Liqid’s composable infrastructure architecture uses industry-standard data centre components...
Slowing growth in NAND shipments follows Covid-19 impact on smartphones
Falling sales of smartphones in the first months of the pandemic has in turn slowed NAND flash shipment growth. Ssmartphones account for 35-40 per cent of NAND flash...
Pure pushes past IBM for top three place in all-flash array market
Pure Storage has overtaken IBM for the third slot in Gartner's revenue league table for the first quarter. Dell EMC and NetApp maintain first and second places and IBM...
Pure Storage ObjectEngine backup is toast
Pure Storage has canned its ObjectEngine backup.
We learnt of this via the cancellation of an archived joint Pure and AWS webinar about ObjectEngine, originally run on May 29,...
Samsung launches gen 2 PC disk replacement SSD
Samsung has formally announced the 870 QVO SSD - after details were leaked in Tom's Hardware. This is intended as a workhorse unit to replace disk drives in PCs,...
Micron Q3 revs are in a good solid state
Micron has posted a 13.6 per cent uplift in revenues to $5.44bn for the third fiscal 2020 quarter ended 28 May. Net income eased 4.4 per cent to $804m.
Outlook...
Fujitsu OEMs NetApp flash and hybrid arrays
Update: Fujitsu questions answers added 3 July 2020.
Fujitsu has switched up from reselling NetApp arrays to OEMing them. The ETERNUS AF all flash and DX hybrid arrays now get...
Kioxia demos speedy NVMe E3.S SSD
Kioxia is shipping engineering samples of a new short ruler SSD format that delivers 35 per cent better performance than the company's coming PCIe 4.0 SSD.
The upcoming E3.S variant...
Digital media kids at OpenDrives show off new fast NAS system
OpenDrives, which provides video post production NAS systems, has been in the spotlight this week after releasing new customizable enterprise products in the form of three new NAS...
This week in storage: Teradata in the cloud, WD Zoned SSDs and more
Teradata has become much more serious about working in the public clouds and Western Digital has an NVMe Express-bolstering present for its zoned QLC SSD initiative.
Teradata’s head...
Live and let die: increasing capacity in the flash industry
Wells Fargo financial analyst Joe Quatrochi has issued a note to subscribers describing the state of capacity increase play in the NAND industry. He’s interested because investors are curious...
Dell EMC rebrands VxFlex to PowerFlex, adds async rep, DR and safe snapshots
Dell EMC has confirmed PowerFlex as the new name for its scale-out, multi-hypervisor, virtual SAN and HCI VxFlex product set, and added data safety features to the OS.
PowerFlex, sold...