Dell EMC spruces up storage array line for SMBs
Dell EMC’s new PowerVault ME4 Series are for small and medium businesses: installable in 15 minutes, configurable in 15 more, and usable as either SAN array or direct-attached PowerEdge...
Vexata gets close to top price/performance slot on SPC-2 benchmark
Vexata, an NVMe flash array startup, has submitted its first product for the SPC-2 benchmarking and the results are... fifth best overall performance number and second-best price/performance rating.
The Storage Performance...
Integrate all the things! Virtual Instruments goes TAP dancing
Virtual Instruments is setting up a Technical Alliance Program to better sell its products in conjunction with integrated upper stack performance monitoring offerings.
The Virtual Instruments Technology Alliance Programme (VITAP)...
Inspur joins SPC-1 benchmark league table
Chinese server and storage vendor Inspur has leapt into the SPC-1 benchmark rankings, beating a top-end IBM array with a much lower price/performance rating.
The SPC-1 benchmark tests a storage...
Tintri co-founders join DDN
Tintri co-founders Kieran Harty and Mark Gritter have joined DDN's Tintri business unit. Gritter assumes the CTO position while Harty has the more nebulous role of "full-time advisor".
In a...
Virtual Instruments gives VirtualWisdom a big makeover
Virtual Instruments has released VirtualWisdom 6.0, a major release of its infrastructure performance monitoring product.
V6.0 adds cloud integrations and extended correlation of events across infrastructure elements to better visualise...
NFLEX genuflects to SAP
Fujitsu and NetApp have gained the SAP seal of approval for their joint NFLEX converged system.
NFLEX is similar in concept to the Dell EMC-Cisco VxBlocks and the set-up features...
E8 displaces DDN at top of genomics research team’s storage stack
Queen Mary University of London's (QMUL)'s genomics research team generated too much data for its high performance computing infrastructure to handle comfortably.
And so the university's IT department set out...
How does NetApp’s MAX Data use Storage-Class Memory? Let’s find out
In this article we explore NetApp's MAX Data use of server-based Storage Class Memory to slay the data access latency dragon?
But first, a brief recap: MAX Data is server-side...
Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap
Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design
Poorly-designed NVMe/TCP networks can get clogged with NVMe traffic and fail to deliver the low latency that NVMe/TCP is designed to deliver in the first place.
The SNIA has an...
Nvidia acquires Mellanox for $6.9bn
Nvidia is buying Mellanox, the Ethernet and InfiniBand data centre networking supplier, for $6.9 billion.
Nvidia will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for...