VAST Data’s business sitrep
VAST Data was founded in 2016 by CEO Renen Hallak, an ex-VP for R&D at XtremIO and its first engineer. Some time before that he worked on computer science...
VAST striping and data protection
The way data is written and erasure coded is crucial to VAST’s data protection capabilities and centres on striping.
Suppose a QLC drive fails. Its data contents have to be...
Infinidat girds up loins for NVMe fabrics and storage-class memory
Infinidat's performance-boosting software upgrade, announced this week, will help the company add NVMe fabric links and storage-class memory to iInfinibox arrays.
InfiniBox 4.0.40 adds SMB support, better protection with snapshot...
Mid-range confusion crimps Dell EMC storage revenues
Dell EMC this week posted its fourth consecutive quarter of storage growth and anticipates a revenue boost from the upcoming unified mid-range array.
Revenues for Dell Technologies in the fourth...
What will Dell EMC’s unified mid-range storage box look like? Let’s not find out…
Blocks & Files tested out some ideas about Dell EMC’s upcoming unified mid-range storage box, the PowerTo-be-decided, with Dell EMC and got precisely nowhere.
I thought I would be clever...
WD keeps fast flash Optane substitute in the wings
Western Digital is developing lower latency flash drives that are faster and more expensive than ordinary 3D NAND but slower and cheaper than DRAM.
The technology addresses the same market...
Intel builds 4-socket servers with 12TB Optane DIMMs to aid virtual machine expansion
Intel thinks servers will require greater Optane DIMM memory capacity to enable them to run more virtual machines. And it expects systems with this capacity to enter the market...
Dell blabs mid-range storage box details – but not to us
Earlier this month we asked Dell EMC to discuss the features of its upcoming unified mid-range storage server. The company declined our request, saying it was too soon...
Formulus Black formulates in-memory speed-up servers
Formulus Black has developed a way to make X86 servers run faster through a data reduction method that effectively enlarges server memory.
Its software runs in a bare metal server...
Intel gets ready to go live with servers with 12TB Optane
Expect Intel to announce on April 2 that server makers will ship 4-socket, 112-core servers with up to 12TB of Optane memory, from July onwards.
This means the servers will...
MemVerge harnesses Optane memory to make Apache Spark run faster
MemVerge a stealth-mode startup, based in Silicon Valley, is developing shared pools of external Optane DIMM memory to make Spark and similar applications run faster than servers with local drives.
The company outlined the...
A potted history of all-flash arrays
Fourteen years ago Violin Memory began life as an all-flash array vendor, aiming to kick slower-performing disk drive arrays up their laggardly disk latency butt. Since then 18 startups...