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Flash storage and solid-state drives (SSDs)

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  Vexata launches VX NVMe physical and virtual appliances

  Startup claims near-bare metal NVMe performance by offloading controller functionality to multiple CPUs on back-end storage with an optimised Linux-based operating system

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Hong Kong cloud firm tests Excelero NVMe for video analytics

  Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  The storage controller has to go, says Scale Computing CEO

  Hyper-converged appliance maker Scale Computing says it achieved near bare metal performance from NVMe by doing away with controller functionality. Is this the end of the SAN?

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO

  Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Tegile launches NVMe IntelliFlash N Series and gets bought by WD

  Tegile adds all-NVMe drive products in a bid to help customers consolidate workloads from transactional processing to file services, but full NVMe performance has to wait

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  Flash memory and OLED shortages will hit smartphone sales

  Analysts at Gartner have warned that a components shortage will affect sales of high-end smartphones

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  E8 dodges NVMe/controller bottleneck with server processing

  Startup E8 announces v2 of its NVMe-based products with LUNs, Raid and thin provisioning as it sidesteps the NVMe-controller bottleneck by offloading processing to app servers

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Charity swaps SAN for Hypergrid hyper-converged to save £1m

  Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Scale hyper-converged adds all-flash 1150F and “workhorse” 5150D

  Hyper-converged pioneer Scale Computing targets 1/2PB 5150D at remote sites and big on-site deployments, while 1150F allows customers an all-flash tier to add to existing clusters

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  NVMe flash blocked by array architecture, says Kaminario CTO

  Flash pioneer CTO says array controllers are built for a different era and must scale-out as clusters to provide the CPU power needed to allow NVMe to realise its potential

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Medical college retires HP for Scale Computing hyper-converged

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine replaces ageing HP servers and MSA SAN with Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, and saves £80,000 in replacement costs

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  Tegile launches Intelliflash tiered all-flash arrays with NVMe

  Hybrid flash turned all-flash maker Tegile adds tier of NVMe to SAS-connected flash with all drives encrypted and an all-NVMe array planned for later in 2017

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  Tape here to stay, says Spectra Logic with LTO-8 2x capacity gain

  LTO-8 tape to boost capacity by leveraging HDD head read technology TMR. Spectra gets in early with offer to customers, “buy LTO-7, get LTO-8 when it ships”

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Cloud firm gets Infinidat hybrid flash to save £250,000 on storage

  Brightsolid replaced EMC and NetApp storage with 1.2PB of Infinidat hybrid flash to help win council contract that saw local authority save £250,000 in yearly storage costs

• June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17

  Irish cloud provider opts for Tegile hybrid flash storage

  Savenet gets 70TB of Tegile hybrid flash in a move that sees Huawei spinning disk arrays replaced as main storage and replaced with hybrid flash for cloud-based services