Infinidat boosts performance, adds SMB support
Infinidat, the enterprise high-end array provider, has added SMB filer support, boosted IOPS and throughput, and strengthened its snapshot capabilities.
New features in InfiniBox 4.0.40 software include:
Support for SMB protocols v2.1...
VAST Data: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the hard drives
VAST Data wants to direct an extinction event for hard drives.
This is a bold ambition but VAST Data is a remarkable startup, certainly in the scope of its claims...
VAST striping and data protection
The way data is written and erasure coded is crucial to VAST’s data protection capabilities and centres on striping.
Suppose a QLC drive fails. Its data contents have to be...
VAST Data’s business sitrep
VAST Data was founded in 2016 by CEO Renen Hallak, an ex-VP for R&D at XtremIO and its first engineer. Some time before that he worked on computer science...
VAST Data’s Universal filesystem
The VAST Data system employs a Universal Storage filesystem. This has a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which is a byte-granular, thin-provisioned, sharded, and has an infinitely-scalable global namespace.
It...
VAST decouples compute and storage
Separate scaling of compute and data is central to VAST’s performance claims. Here is a top-level explanation of how it is achieved.
In VAST’s scheme there are compute nodes and...
Smartphones get NVMe for faster flash card data access
The SD Association is adopting the NVMe protocol to speed data access to add-in tablet and phone flash cards.
The industry standards-setting group of around 900 companies has agreed the...
Trust the public cloud Big Three to make non-volatile storage volatile
AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure's – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Crossbar, CTERA, Snowflake and Pavilion Data
Some bits and bobs for your perusal. Let's go.
Short items
ReRAM developer Crossbar Inc. is setting up a consortium of AI technology providers that are developing hardware and software products...
Who are the Blocks & Filers?
Most Blocks & Files readers live in the USA and half read content on cell phones.
Three months after the site formally opened an analysis of its readership shows 45...
Seven Pillars of IBM Storage wisdom
You would think IBM was a storage chemist; there are that many IBM Storage Solutions floating around. And now we have three more with another four point storage product...
NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design
Poorly-designed NVMe/TCP networks can get clogged with NVMe traffic and fail to deliver the low latency that NVMe/TCP is designed to deliver in the first place.
The SNIA has an...