Storage news ticker – September 18
Cigent Technology, which supplies zero trust data protection, is partnering with encrypted storage drive supplier Kanguru to bring full disk encryption to global customers. Kanguru Defender SED300 Secure SSDs,...
Gartner unveils hottest storage trends for 2023
Gartner reckons the top enterprise storage trends for 2023 include cloud operating models, new SSD technologies, cyber security against ransomware, and better use of unstructured data for analytical insights.
We...
Storage news ticker – September 7
Airbyte has announced an integration with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. It gives customers the ability to monitor and analyze data pipelines with reporting of...
Lenovo storage man talks market share, all-flash and more
B&F caught up with Marco Pozzoni, EMEA Storage Sales Director for Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, about Lenovo’s moves in the storage sector. He was hired from NetApp, where he...
Huawei adds 5-in-1 scale-out all-flash array to portfolio
Huawei has launched a new all-flash OceanStor Pacific array, the 9920, and revealed some details of its compression and ransomware recovery.
The China-based megacorp competes with the big guns of...
Dell Q2 revenues better than expected, sees AI everywhere
Dell reported revenues in the second quarter ended August 4 of $22.9 billion, 13 percent less than a year ago, with a net income of $455 million, 10 percent...
TD SYNNEX gets into data migration transport biz
Distributor TD SYNNEX has a physical data migration offering using a Western Digital flash server chassis and MinIO object storage.
This is quite different from software-defined data migration services from...
Kioxia has killed its Kumoscale networked flash system
Quietly and with no fanfare, Kioxia has killed its Kumoscale networked flash array or JBOF. The deed was done three months ago, in May, with a note for partners:...
Hammerspace CEO pushes NFS SSD concept
Hammerspace founder and CEO David Flynn has proposed an NFS SSD. Flynn’s notion is based on NFS Ethernet SSDs. The Ethernet SSD concept has been floated before with Kioxia...
Supermicro preps storage servers for AI
Supermicro has launched a PCIe gen 5 storage server line with E3.S flash drives and CXL memory expansion support aimed squarely at the HPC and ChatGPT-led AI/ML markets.
The EDSFF’s...
IBM tops Nvidia GPU data delivery charts
IBM claims it has the fastest storage node data delivery to Nvidia GPU servers with its ESS 3500 hardware and Storage Scale parallel file system.
Nvidia GPU servers are fed...
Using SSD data placement to lessen SSD write amplification
Analysis: ZNS and FDP are two technologies for placing data more precisely on SSDs to lengthen their working life and improve performance. How do they work? Will both be...