Unlucky for some: Chris Mellor’s 13 predictions for storage tech in 2019
Here are my personal predictions for IT this year and how they will affect enterprise storage.
Multi-cloud adoption will (a) encourage enterprises to adopt fewer infrastructure component suppliers and (b)...
Iguazio builds Google-like Outpost for IoT retail edge
Unlike Amazon's Outpost and Azure Stack, Google has no public cloud on-premises presence. Iguazio says it can provide one for Google customers.
The Israeli start-up claims superstores with multi-branch retail...
Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap
Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
Micron cuts capex in response to declining memory market
Micron is reining in capital spending in the face of a glut in the DRAM and NAND memory markets.
The chip giant yesterday reported $7.91bn revenues Q1FY2019, missing estimates of...
How does NetApp’s MAX Data use Storage-Class Memory? Let’s find out
In this article we explore NetApp's MAX Data use of server-based Storage Class Memory to slay the data access latency dragon?
But first, a brief recap: MAX Data is server-side...
Intel confirms Optane DIMM and SSD speed
Intel has revealed Optane DIMM and SSD read latency numbers.
Optane DIMMs and SSDs use 3D XPoint memory, which is non-volatile, faster than NAND but slower than DRAM, and based...
IBM enlists Nvidia for full-stack AI build-out
IBM has introduced Spectrum AI, a souped up integrated set of server, GPU and storage components. The reference architecture includes:
IBM Elastic Storage Server or Spectrum Scale NVMe all-flash appliance,...
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...
Samsung parades 4TB SSD in the consumer quad
Samsung has started shipping the 860 QVO, a 4TB QLC consumer SSD.
QLC means quad-level cell flash and 4bits per cell - one more than the typical TLC (3bit/ cell)...
B&Ffled by the storage news flood? Get unbaffled here
Here is a snapshot of press and conference announcements to go with your morning's coffee, tea, smoothie or some other beverage.
Cohesity goes up the Amazon
Cohesity, a converger of...
NetApp blows filer benchmark to smithereens
All-flash NetApp filers have blown the SPEC SFS 2014 SW Build benchmark record to hell and gone.
A 4-node system scored 2,200 and an 8-node one 4,200 - 2.8 times...
Escaping the DRAM price trap: Storage Class Memory, what it is and why it...
In this article we explore Storage-Class-Memory (SCM) and explain why it is ready for enterprise IT big time in 2019.
Setting the scene
DRAM is the gold standard for storing...