When hyperscalers catch a cold, Quantum sneezes
Storage supplier Quantum has encountered significant challenges due to a decrease in device and media sales, and reduced spending by hyperscale customers.
In the first fiscal quarter of 2024 ending...
Storage news ticker – February 26, 2024
Data protector Acronis has released its Cyber Protect 16 product with a new centralized dashboard. It features:
Cyberthreat Protection using AI and ML to proactively secure data, applications, and systems...
StorPool, an Intel customer, runs slide rule over Optane DIMMs
Optane DIMM performance looks good for large databases and virtual machines (VMs) in memory mode and could be useful for metadata storage and write-back caching in app-direct mode. But...
NGD computational flash wins best-of-show award at FMS 2018
NGD, a maker of computational processing storage drives, has won a best-of-show award at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara.
With its Newport product, the company aims to solve the...
Buy Pavilion Data array and lease drive slots
NVMe-ver-Fabrics array supplier Pavilion Data has a new business model; buy the array and controller and lease drive slots.
Customer choose the level of controller performance they want and subscribe...
Tosh platters spinning a 14TB helium SAS dance
Toshiba has added a high-capacity helium-filled 3.5-inch form factor SAS disk drive alongside its equivalent SATA product.
Like the SATA-using MG07 ACA, the MG07 SCA has with its 12 and...
Akonia Holographics gets bitten by Apple and moves into paradise
Apple has bought a holographic glassware company, Akonia Holographics, to gain technology it can use in augmented reality products.
Akonia is a 6-year old company with roots that extend back...
Memory prices are on their way down
Trendforce forecasts a five per cent or greater fall in DRAM contract prices in 2018’s fourth quarter, following 1 to 2 per cent rise in the third quarter. The...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
How does NetApp’s MAX Data use Storage-Class Memory? Let’s find out
In this article we explore NetApp's MAX Data use of server-based Storage Class Memory to slay the data access latency dragon?
But first, a brief recap: MAX Data is server-side...
Intel’s Cascade Lake could break Optane DIMM dam
Intel has started revenue shipments of Cascade Lake Xeon SP processors - these support Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM devices.
Optane is Intel’s 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology, co-developed with...