Samsung investigating issues with 990 Pro SSDs
Samsung is probing reported problems with 990 Pro SSDs, whose owners have claimed the drives’ health status shows alarmingly fast drops in reported capacity even though only small amounts...
Dell takes VxRail hyperconverged systems to the rugged edge
As promised back in August, Dell has introduced its rugged and modular VxRail system for edge locations, the VD-4000.
VxRail is Dell’s hyperconverged compute+networking+storage+vSphere hypervisor all-in-one-enclosure system which can scale...
NetApp wages ONTAP war on Dell and Pure
NetApp is presenting itself as the leading storage innovator compared to Dell and Pure Storage, with charts showing them lagging behind on 22 out of 25 innovations.
It's put forward...
Pliops spreads wings with RAID supercharger
Pliops has added three data services to its XDP x86 CPU offload card to give applications more NVMe SSD performance, endurance and better, faster drive failure protection.
The XDP is...
Quobyte storage used for primary genomics data
Case Study. Quobyte unified block, file and object storage is being used by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to store primary life sciences and genomics data in a hybrid...
Unifabrix CXL memory node boosts core use
Israeli startup Unifabrix demonstrated its Smart Memory Node at SC22 and we wrote an initial account of its technology here. The intent was to demonstrate remote memory pooling across a...
VAST may embrace GPU processing nodes
VAST Data has been promising a move up the stack from storage to better support AI/ML workloads for some time now. Nothing has been revealed but clues have been...
NetApp appoints new CMO
NetApp has appointed software and cloud-focused Gabrielle Boko as its new CMO to replace the departing James Whitemore.
Whitemore, NetApp EVP and CMO from November 2019 until this month, and...
HPE Apollo 4000 servers rebranded with Sapphire Rapids CPUs
HPE has rebranded its Apollo 4000 data storage server line as the Alletra 4000, with two new products: the Alletra 4110 and 4120, both with Gen 4 Xeon Sapphire...
Micron launches faster U.3 datacenter SSD
Micron has launched a 9400 datacenter NVMe SSD using the PCIe gen 4 interface with great performance and a 30.7TB maximum capacity.
Update: 7450 and 9500 positining comment from Micron...
Storage titans face Turkish competitor inspired by VAST Data’s architecture
NGX Storage, a Turkish storage outfit, is developing a scale-out NVMe block storage array with a top-level hardware architecture similar to VAST Data's Universal Storage scale-out filer array.
Privately owned...
Storage news ticker – December 15
Apache Cassandra v4.1 is a milestone release that's mainly a feature update geared toward preparing for the major changes for developers in 5.0. Significant core services changes have been...