Your occasional storage digest featuring Nvidia, InfiniteIO, Memverge, Nutanix and Sony’s PS5 SSD
It’s all about more and more speed and faster disaster recovery in this week’s roundup. Read on,
Nvidia DGX A100 GPU server
Nvidia has launched its third generation DGX GPU server,...
Nimbus Data touts ExaFlash One array for ‘dense enterprise workload consolidation’
Update: May 18 - TouchSupport customer review of ExaFlash One.
Nimbus Data, a data storage vendor based in Los Angeles, has announced the ExaFlash One all-flash array with a...
Intel lets us have a sneaky peek at 144-layer flash and gen 2 Optane...
Intel’s Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group briefed the press today on its NAND and Optane plans and status. The TL;DR version is that Intel SSDs are all going 144-layer; gen...
Dell EMC launches PowerStore into converged storage array seas
Dell EMC today launched PowerStore, the much anticipated storage array line that unifies its formerly overlapping midrange products. This is the most important development in data storage hardware for...
VAST Data adds SMB support with Universal Storage upgrade
VAST Data has added SMB support and replication in the V3 release of its Universal Storage array software.
Jeff Denworth, VP of products at VAST, claimed today: “Version 3 is...
Micron reinvents storage IO stack for the solid state age
Micron has devised a modified storage IO stack for Linux that delivers lower latency, faster performance and longer life. The US chipmaker said the 'heterogeneous-memory storage engine' (HSE)...
Hitachi Vantara launches all-NVMe E990 flash array
Hitachi Vantara has added a high performance, all-flash E990 array to the VSP storage line, filling a gap between the high-end 5000 Series and the mid-range F Series.
Brian...
VAST Data scores $100m and transforms into a data storage unicorn
VAST Data has completed a $100m funding round during the covid-19 pandemic which values the all-flash array storage startup at $1.2bn.
The company will spend the new money on...
Infinidat: Our speedy storage arrays do not run any faster with Optane
Infinidat has no immediate plans to add Optane support because its memory-caching technology is already faster than Intel’s 3D XPoint.
In a press briefing today, Yair Cohen, VP of product...
NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage
NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies.
Coldago, a small data storage research firm, surveyed...
Panasas assesses six new data storage technologies for HPC use case
Modern data storage technologies may deliver high speed data access but not all make the cut for the exacting demands of high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Panasas is a niche...
Intel secures new Optane supply deal from Micron – at a price
Intel will likely have to pay more to Micron for Optane memory chips, under a new supply deal that kicked in on March 7.
Terms of the agreement are confidential...