A potted history of all-flash arrays
Fourteen years ago Violin Memory began life as an all-flash array vendor, aiming to kick slower-performing disk drive arrays up their laggardly disk latency butt. Since then 18 startups...
Vexata dredges new channels as storm clouds gather
Vexata, the extreme high-performance storage array startup, has laid off several staff and imposed pay cuts, according to industry sources. The company declined to comment on pay or confirm...
Zoned SSDs live fast, die old, Western Digital claims
Western Digital is developing zoned SSDs that can be managed by host systems to speed data access and prolong the life of the drives.
This could make short-life...
Dell EMC refreshes Unity arrays with splash of Skylake and NVMe
Dell next month will refresh the Unity mid-range storage array line with Skylake Xeon processors and NVMe – the latter as expected after I revealed the firm's plan in...
Micron offers NVMe SSDs for laptops
Micron Technology has introduced a portfolio of SSD drives with NVMe support in the space-saving M.2 form factor, aimed at delivering accelerated read/write performance with lower latency for client...
Dell blabs mid-range storage box details – but not to us
Earlier this month we asked Dell EMC to discuss the features of its upcoming unified mid-range storage server. The company declined our request, saying it was too soon...
Lightbits unveils NVMe/TCP product. Toshiba adds NVMe/TCP support to Kumoscale
You wait for a bus for ages and then two come along at once. So it is with NVMe/TCP - Toshiba and Lightbits Labs have introduced NVMe/TCP product on...
Vexata hives off software for partners to build 20 million IOPS arrays
Targeting cloud providers, Vexata has separated its software and hardware, to offering file and block access software on commodity servers.
in October 2017 Vexata introduced a 7 million IOPS...
NGD Systems heralds in-situ processing for NVMe SSDs
NGD Systems has announced general availability of the first product in the Newport platform of high capacity NVMe SSDs.
The Irvine, Calif. startup makes big claims for the product family which provides computational storage...
Western Digital tag teams with WekaIO for HPC+ML workloads
Western Digital Capital has made a strategic investment in WekaIO. The amount is undisclosed.
WD aims to increase penetration of NVMe flash and object storage in enterprises and WekaIO's Matrix...
Names, faces and storage people places
Without further ado...
Kirill Tatarinov has joined the Acronis board. He was most recently the president and CEO at Citrix Systems and is said to know effective product development strategies...
The irresistible rise of NVMe means SATA SSD days are numbered
SATA interfaces for SSDS are on their way out and the NVMe SSD interface will take over in 2020, according to Eyal Shani, Western Digital's director, technical product marketing....