Western Digital enhances OpenFlex JBOF
Western Digital has upgraded its OpenFlex storage solution, integrating faster dual-port SSDs and the new RapidFlex fabric bridge for improved performance.
OpenFlex is a 2RU x 24-bay disaggregated chassis designed...
MaxLinear pushes out 3rd gen Panther storage accelerator
MaxLinear has launched a third-generation OCP-compliant Panther III storage accelerator promising 12:1 data reduction.
The company was founded in 2003, IPO’d in 2010, and supplies digital, high-performance analog and mixed-signal...
Kioxia speeds up in datacenter SSD refresh
Kioxia has launched a high-speed PCIe 5 data center SSD, the CD8P, which is significantly faster than its existing DC product, the CD8, and has double the stated capacity.
Both...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
Storage system speed serving data to Nvidia GPUs
Analysis: With Dell’s PowerScale scale-out filer being included in the company’s generative AI announcement this week, we looked at how it and other storage systems compare when using Nvidia's...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
Gartner storage hype cycle has selective memory
Comment: Research house Gartner has published its 2023 storage hype cycle, highlighting the evolving landscape of various technologies in the industry, and some have dropped completely out of sight.
The...
Storage news roundup – July 21
Managed infrastructure systems provider 11:11 Systems has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) and will offer customers 11:11 Cloud Backup for Veeam Cloud Connect, 11:11 Cloud Backup for Microsoft...
Silk extends its Azure high end base down to mid-market
Silk has moved its Azure storage acceleration technology down to the mid-market by using a mid-range class of Azure SSD storage and a new licensing scheme.
The concept is to...
Storage old guard needs to have its cache and eat it too
Comment: Legacy external hardware-based storage suppliers need to adapt to technology threats to their businesses from three incomers – Infinidat, Pure Storage and VAST Data.
Update. Dell PowerMax gen 2...
Cloudian sacrifices some snapshots for software update
Object storage supplier Cloudian has released an update to its HyperStore object storage software, version 7.5.1. The new release focuses on improving security, protection, and search capabilities while temporarily...
Western Digital boosts Blue consumer SSD line
Western Digital has upped the bus connect from PCIe gen 3 to gen 4 for its Blue 500 series internal SSD, increasing speed by between 20-70 percent.
Blue drives are...