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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SSD storage rulers of the world, unite!
The EDSFF organisation has standardised short and long and 3-inch ruler form factors for SSDs, with specs available from the Storage Networking Industry Alliance.
EDSFF stands for Enterprise and Data...