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Despite a rubbish name Mangstor makes super-fast NVMe-based flash arrays
- Storage Editor 12 Nov 2015 -
The glacial sales cycle of HGST's cold storage Active Archive
- Storage Editor 11 Nov 2015 -
Rozo brings scale-out NAS plus erasure coding
- Storage Editor 05 Nov 2015
mangstor, all-flash, all-flash array, nvme, pcie
It's not too often you get to hear the exact progress of a new product in the market but this week at Cloud Expo Europe in Frankfurt, HGST senior business development manager for elastic storage ...
I spoke with French startup Rozo this week. It's USP is that it marries the scalability of scale-out NAS - ie virtual unlimited and with potentially billions of file names - with erasure coding and ...
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VMware's hybrid cloud vision falls short in storage
- Storage Editor 13 Oct 2015 -
Dell and EMC's Big Splash point to hyper-convergence
- Storage Editor 12 Oct 2015 -
SolidFire puts flash for object (and file) storage on the roadmap
- Storage Editor 17 Sep 2015 -
StorPool's Linux-based software-defined storage dodges VMware and Hyper-V, for now
- Storage Editor 19 Aug 2015 -
Will 3D XPoint kill flash and leave disk (and tape) standing?
- Storage Editor 03 Aug 2015 -
Infinidat stakes claim to the future of hyperscale storage in the enterprise
- Storage Editor 27 Jul 2015 -
Quobyte apes Google storage model and plans a tilt at NetApp and EMC
- Storage Editor 21 Jul 2015
VMware's vision of the near future of IT revolves heavily around the hybrid cloud in which customers run both on-premise and off-premises cloud. Listening to VMware execs at VMworld Europe this ...
On the eve of VMworld Europe it's like witnessing the IT/storage world's equivalent of the Big Splash. Yes, I'm talking about Dell's proposed $67 billion purchase of storage giant EMC. The ...
All-flash array maker SolidFire plans to apply the speed of flash to object storage. So said CEO Dave Wright this week. We were discussing the prospects for the all-flash datacentre, following ...
Software-defined storage products seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment. This week I spoke with another, the Bulgaria-based StorPool, which offers storage software that can be deployed on ...
data storage, 3d xpoint, hdd, tape, nand, flash, flash storage
Enterprises need hyperscale or webscale storage. They look at the likes of Google and Facebook and need to do what they're doing; processing and storing huge amounts of data with transactions and ...
Does the world need another software-defined storage/storage virtualisation product? There are plenty to choose from already, such as DataCore, Nexenta, Open-E as well as software storage products ...
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Veeam won't get physical (backup)
- Storage Editor 10 Jun 2015 -
EMC: Open source for the ViPR isn't sauce for the Golden Goose
- Storage Editor 22 May 2015 -
ViPR and CoprHD: EMC forced to swim with the open source tide
- Storage Editor 07 May 2015 -
Software-defined storage: Not for us says Nimble Storage CEO
- Storage Editor 01 May 2015 -
World War Datacentre: The VMware empire and its rivals
- Storage Editor 15 Apr 2015
Veeam is a backup software company and pioneer of virtual machine backup. Way back when, while most backup software was firmly rooted in the old world of physical servers and an agent on every box, ...
This week I spoke to EMC marketing VP Josh Goldstein about XtremIO 4.0. EMC's flagship all-flash array has seen it move from third place in the all-flash stakes to first, with Gartner in 2013 ...
EMC's move to make its ViPR software-defined storage platform open source (as Project CoprHD) appears a bold one, but I can't help thinking it looks like the giant from Hopkinton, MA, has been been ...
Separating software from hardware is an emerging trend in data storage. So, it was interesting this week to come across one array maker - hybrid flash specialist Nimble Storage - which said it ...
In the real world we've seen centuries of wars, largely the result of old empires fading and new contenders arising. And the world of IT show similar parallels, albeit on much reduced timescales ...