News

Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

  Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Commvault tops and tails HyperScale backup appliance offer

  Data protection specialist adds clustered high-end HS3300 backup appliance and the standalone Remote Office Appliance, pushing the HS1300 launched last year to mid range

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Violin launches XVS8 flagship high-performance flash array

  Reborn Violin Systems launches flash boxes that can scale to petabytes and are aimed at transactional, analytics and virtualisation use cases, with NVMe upgrades expected

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018

  Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Red Hat to throw its hat in with Container Storage Interface

  Software maker will add Container Storage Interface support to its existing OpenShift Container Platform and GlusterFS-based scale-out file system container storage

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Lenovo cements deal with NetApp to strengthen datacentre foundation

  Lenovo wants to become more customer-centric. A tie-up with NetApp takes its datacentre strategy to the next phase. We investigate

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Enterprise demand drives hike in storage sales, says IDC

  Healthy jump in all-flash and SAN/NAS sales is being driven by enterprise storage modernisation, but also by component price rises. Dell EMC and NetApp top the supplier sales charts

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  DDN to make enterprise push with Tintri’s VM-aware storage

  DDN set to add Tintri’s portfolio of all-flash and hybrid flash arrays to its product offering following the purchase of the VM-aware storage pioneer after it filed for bankruptcy in June

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Toshiba drives add Marvell cards to give native NVMe-over-fabrics

  Piggy-backed cards allow drive shelves that can connect to remote servers as if directly attached and at NVMe speeds, with box maker Aupera getting in on the JBOF act

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Newisys bare metal NVMe box targets performance market

  Former OEM supplier come out of stealth with dual-server box that can mount 56 NVMe drives for hyperscale datacentres or build-your-own NVMe shared storage hardware

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy

  Recent first-quarter results by the VM-aware storage pioneer throw light on a fragile financial situation that needs new funds or a buyer to avoid bankruptcy by the end of June

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  Vexata doubles capacity in NVMe flash storage VX family

  NVMe flash storage Vexata maker ups capacity to just under half a PB with 8TB drives, claims near-bare metal performance, and aims at analytics, trading and simulations workloads

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  San Francisco 49ers add pace to the team with NVMe flash from Datrium

  US NFL football team plans high-performance NVMe flash to power in-game statistics and video decision-making, plus access for scouts to player databases during draft

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  StorageCraft to unveil unified storage, backup and cloud appliances

  StorageCraft arose as a backup software maker but now plans converged storage, backup and analytics play in a move to unify offering built on core and acquired products

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash

  Two years ago, the Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team deployed Pure Storage all-flash arrays in its datacentre and in mobile racks out on the circuit. It’s a bet that has paid off for the racing team