Ceph suppliers play catch-up in software-defined block storage market
Kaminario, Commvault and DataCore are the top software-defined block storage suppliers. However, open source Ceph is a follower in this market.
So says GigaOm, the tech analyst firm, which has...
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...
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...
WD launches 24-slot dragster NVMe-oF box
Update. Read/write bandwidth and latency numbers added. 25 June 2020.
WD has built a faster NVMe SSD and populated an OpenFlex NVMe-oF composable JBOF enclosure with 24 of them to...
Let the SAN shine: Nebulon drops cloak, reveals DPU-enhanced, cloud-managed server SAN
Startup Nebulon has come out of stealth to reveal scale-out, on-premises, server SAN, block-based storage using commodity X86 servers bolstered with storage processing offload cards, along with ...
SmartX produces Optane DIMM DAX cached hyperconverged system
SmartX has announced what is probably the fastest hyperconverged infrastructure appliance in the world, if the speeds it has reported are verified.
The Chinese hyperconverged vendor has launched a Halo...
NAND here’s your storage digest, featuring Samsung, Pavilion Data and more
We start off today’s roundup with news about Samsung facing production problems with its 128-layer 3D NAND. We also take a look at a Sony business using a fast...
It’s harsh at the edge: Dell gives VxRail a boost with PCIe 4, K8S,...
Dell has extended its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure systems with support for AMD EPYC processors, PCIe Gen 4.0, Kubernetes, Optane, more GPUs and ruggedised deployments, making it more relevant to...
Intel launches gen 2 Optane DIMMs
Intel has announced second generation Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs with the same capacity as gen 1 but faster IO. The company has also launched new SSDs.
Intel said the PMEM...
DDN gives itself a new logo
DDN, the veteran high performance computing storage vendor that recently bought several enterprise storage businesses, has had a makeover.
Here is its new logo:
And this is what the company...
Dell updates Isilon with PowerScale label, fresh hardware and other tweaks
Dell has updated its Isilon scale-out filers with new PowerScale branding and products as well as S3 object access and a DataIQ data analytics feature.
PowerScale is the brand that...