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...
Fujitsu gets cosy with Vexata
Vexata has plugged into a big enterprise sales channel in the USA and Canada via a deal with Fujitsu to resell its bleeding edge NVMe storage arrays.
The companies will jointly...
HPE stuffs Optane into 3PAR arrays to speed Oracle workloads
HPE has announced Optane caching for its 3PAR arrays and this makes them chew through Oracle database workloads faster.
According to HPE, "92% of all 3PAR install base reads...
Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks
Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
Intel Optane-boosted cluster is giant whale in tiny benchmark puddle
Intel has chosen a small and under-populated benchmark performance pond in which to be a large price/performance fish.
The company has achieved a record price/performance on the IOmark VM benchmark...
Your occasional storage digest featuring AWS, Delphix, Druva and NVM Express
Nibs, niblets, nibbles; brief news items to start the week and give you an appetite for five days of full-tilt action. Let’s see what we have from AWS, Delphix,...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…
Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox.
We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve deep...
Infinidat: We own the high-end storage array market
Infinidat claims it has a 60 per cent plus share of multi-petabyte storage array shipments. But we have only its word to go on.
Brian Carmody, Infinidat CTO, argues that...
Western Digital aims to boost NVMe SSD share with this one cunning virtualization trick
Western Digital today introduced its ME200 memory extension NVMe SSD. This uses a hypervisor to implement a software memory management unit which adds SSD capacity into the host server’s...
Faster, cheaper: Pavilion packs massive monolithic features into mini-NVMe array
Pavilion Data Systems, an NVMe array startup, has added encryption at rest to its RF100 series appliance.
Pavilion's array is a radical architectural change over other all-flash arrays, which are...