IBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
Analyst house DCIG has produced a list of the biggest market movers and shakers in the world of high-end arrays, yet it doesn't include IBM or HPE branded products,...
Fungible sold to Microsoft for $190 million, say multiple sources
DPU startup Fungible has been sold to Microsoft for $190 million despite raising more than $300 million in funding since its incorporation in 2015, according to multiple sources.
The company...
Web3 storage needs to ditch cryptocurrency
Analysis: Decentralized storage – the Web3 concept – will fail unless it deals with seven issues that are stopping its growth.
Web3 storage or dStorage (decentralized storage) is deliberately not...
Storage news ticker – November 16
Taiwan-based Ambedded Technology has released the UniVirStor Flash Mars500 Ceph Storage Appliance: software-defined storage integrating Ceph, Ampere Altra Arm servers, and Ambedded’s Ceph management web UI. This turn-key appliance...
Web3 bros form Decentralized Storage Alliance
Web3 cheerleaders Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation have set up the Decentralized Storage Alliance (DSA) with AMD, Seagate, and EY as founding members.
The alliance says it will create...
Broadcom refreshes connectivity portfolio
Broadcom has updated its range of connectivity products from top-of-rack Ethernet switches down through storage NICs, video offload accelerators, and HBAs to HDD controller SoCs and PreAmps.
The company says...
Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died
NVMe-over Fabrics storage array startup Pavilion Data has crashed.
Update. Co-founder Sundar Kanthadai's epitaph LinkedIn post added. Jan 1, 2023.
The news was released at an all-hands company meeting on October...
Fungible shifts focus to SAN performance, power
DPU startup Fungible has rowed back from its data center composability ambitions, cancelling products to concentrate on its storage cluster technology using all-flash arrays controlled by its DPUs with...
Cirrus Data: Migration for blockheads
Block data migration provides an exact copy of data from a source storage system to a target system. Blocks and Files has written about file and object-level migrations with...
DPU startup Fungible lays off staff – sources
DPU developer Fungible has, according to industry sources, laid off a number of employees as it focuses on the mature storage market for its data processing unit technology.
Update: Fungible...
Storage news ticker – August 23
High-end storage array supplier Infinidat has announced NVMe/TCP certification with vSphere ESXi, and vVols replication with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) integration. These new capabilities complement Infinidat’s VMware integrations,...
Gartner releases 2022 storage hype cycle
Gartner’s latest storage and data protection hype cycle is an amazingly long report and, this being Gartner, the basic idea is treated to exhaustive analysis by a team of...